Stop icloud downloading files to mac

Best Answer. The x button is not clickable As you can see, those downloads generate a lot of traffic. OS: Big Sur Related Question.

User level: Community Specialist. I'm happy to provide some help with this issue. I would recommend turning off iCloud Drive, and then re-enabling it. View answer in context. Loading page content. Reply Helpful 7 Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. Active Oldest Votes. The x button is not clickable As you can see, those downloads generate a lot of traffic.

OS: Big Sur Improve this answer. Octavian Fox Octavian Fox 61 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. I've been very frustrated about this lately too. It works by default like this on iPad but it seems that on the MacBook there's a different default where it tries to download everything. Open Finder. Click on iCloud Drive. Right-click on the folder you want to remove its downloaded content, and then click on Remove Download. Udhy 5, 10 10 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges.

Look for words like "if there is space" in the description. That means Apple downloads everything and then frees up space when it sees you have little space left. It doesn't do the calculation first - it actually downloads. Look for confusion around Documents and Desktop. If you opt in to syncing on one Mac - now you have 4 folders on any one Mac signed in to iCloud - the cloud version of desktop and documents and the local version.

Jonas Merhej Jonas Merhej 11 3 3 bronze badges. This worked for a download which was triggered manually. I uploaded them ages ago and never touched them since.

I do not use iCloud myself, because I like my data and trust Apple with it about as far as you could throw Cupertino. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Marc Wilson Marc Wilson 3, 10 10 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Since there seems to be no proper way to achieve this, I have sent feedback to Apple. I will send feedback on a weekly basis until they fix it. Himank Nagpal Himank Nagpal 1 1 1 bronze badge. Is there a side effect when disabling iCloud Drive?

What happens to the files stored there? Your iCloud Drive files should not be affected. But the files you have downloaded to your mac can get deleted. I believe it would give you an option to keep local files or delete, not sure if it does or not.