Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-08 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
> On Jan 8, 2023, at 2:24 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > Nope. I never said that there is a one true way. I'm not the one who said > that somebody is using their computer wrong. Who said that? I certainly didn't. > Cherish what follows: > > You're right Godfrey. > > The OS is not the user

Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-08 Thread Larry Colen
> On Jan 8, 2023, at 12:05 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> On Jan 8, 2023, at 9:16 AM, Larry Colen wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Jan 8, 2023, at 7:12 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Then last March, I started a new job and for a couple of months I used Windows 10 as my daily machine. That

Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-08 Thread Larry Colen
> On Jan 8, 2023, at 7:12 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> >> >> Then last March, I started a new job and for a couple of months I used >> Windows 10 as my daily machine. That cured me of any desire to use Windows >> at home. > > It's obvious to me, Larry, that you are not a macOS user

Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-08 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Hi Rick, Note that that article was published in 2012. This is nothing new, it has been behavior standard on macOS for a decade now. It's just that you have a new machine, with a newly initialized OS, file system, and apps. You didn't do an install-over on your previous boot drive, I imagine,

Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-08 Thread Rick Womer
Godfrey, good morning! Things seem to have changed at Apple. The MacBook Pro I bought in August, updated to OS 16, defaults to storing =everything= in iCloud. I found a dialog box that has other options, but they are so obtusely worded that I’ll need some time to decode them. I also found

Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-08 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
> On Jan 8, 2023, at 12:27 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> On Jan 7, 2023, at 11:59 PM, Bob W PDML wrote: >> >>> On 8 Jan 2023, at 02:05, Larry Colen wrote: >>> > The symlink worked for many years, through many generations of MacOS, I > don't understand why it broke. >>> >>> -- >> If

Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-08 Thread Larry Colen
> On Jan 7, 2023, at 11:59 PM, Bob W PDML wrote: > >> On 8 Jan 2023, at 02:05, Larry Colen wrote: >> >>  >> The symlink worked for many years, through many generations of MacOS, I don't understand why it broke. >> >> -- >> > > If it’s any consolation, Larry, I had a symlink

Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-08 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 8 Jan 2023, at 02:05, Larry Colen wrote: > >  > >>> The symlink worked for many years, through many generations of MacOS, I >>> don't understand why it broke. > > -- > If it’s any consolation, Larry, I had a symlink go bad on me in Windows about 10 years ago. -- %(real_name)s

Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-07 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
> On Jan 7, 2023, at 7:08 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > In other words if you don't do anything, things will be stored on iCloud. Entirely, exactly wrong. Nothing on any Apple system I've ever initialized attempted to store anything on iCloud. Period. The use of a command-line interface has

Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-07 Thread Larry Colen
> On Jan 7, 2023, at 6:35 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > > > I have no idea, Larry. I am no expert in UNIX/Linux command-line interface or > scripting systems, they have been irrelevant to my use of Apple computer > systems. > > My work was in writing, debugging, and documenting macOS

Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-07 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
> On Jan 7, 2023, at 6:05 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > > >> On Jan 7, 2023, at 5:37 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >>> On Jan 7, 2023, at 4:11 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >>> On Jan 7, 2023, at 3:39 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Nothing is ever required to be saved on

Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-07 Thread Larry Colen
> On Jan 7, 2023, at 5:37 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> On Jan 7, 2023, at 4:11 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> >>> On Jan 7, 2023, at 3:39 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >>> >>> Nothing is ever required to be saved on iCloud. Ever. Applications give you >>> the option to do that, yes, but

Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-07 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
> On Jan 7, 2023, at 4:11 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> On Jan 7, 2023, at 3:39 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >> Nothing is ever required to be saved on iCloud. Ever. Applications give you >> the option to do that, yes, but only if you want to. >> >> Data stored on iCloud can be accessed in

Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-07 Thread Larry Colen
> On Jan 7, 2023, at 3:39 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > Nothing is ever required to be saved on iCloud. Ever. Applications give you > the option to do that, yes, but only if you want to. > > Data stored on iCloud can be accessed in several different ways. It's not required, but with

Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-07 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Nothing is ever required to be saved on iCloud. Ever. Applications give you the option to do that, yes, but only if you want to. Data stored on iCloud can be accessed in several different ways. - In the sidebar of Finder windows, you will find a category called "iCloud" and under that a

Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-07 Thread Doug Brewer
Rick, look for the iCloud settings under your Apple ID. You can turn it off there. On 1/7/23 4:30 PM, Rick Womer wrote: For some reason, my two Macs (one for work, the other for photos) have decided that everything that I want to save should be saved to iCloud. I don’t want anything on

Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-07 Thread Bill
On 1/7/2023 4:30 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: On 1/7/2023 5:26 PM, Bill wrote: On 1/7/2023 3:30 PM, Rick Womer wrote: With thanks for letting me vent, does anyone have a solution to suggest? Windows? Sorry Rick, someone had to say it. HAR!! WW. -- Wheatfield, I was sooo tempted .. ann --

Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-07 Thread ann sanfedele
On 1/7/2023 5:26 PM, Bill wrote: On 1/7/2023 3:30 PM, Rick Womer wrote: With thanks for letting me vent, does anyone have a solution to suggest? Windows? Sorry Rick, someone had to say it. HAR!! WW. -- Wheatfield, I was sooo tempted .. ann -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To

Re: Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-07 Thread Bill
On 1/7/2023 3:30 PM, Rick Womer wrote: For some reason, my two Macs (one for work, the other for photos) have decided that everything that I want to save should be saved to iCloud. I don’t want anything on iCloud. I have loads of space on both computers and on external hard drives. I can’t

Apple iCloud -- Arrgh

2023-01-07 Thread Rick Womer
For some reason, my two Macs (one for work, the other for photos) have decided that everything that I want to save should be saved to iCloud. I don’t want anything on iCloud. I have loads of space on both computers and on external hard drives. I can’t find anything in the Control Panel to turn