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, so the 'from factory defaults' are/were in place.
My current machine is a 2018-2019 Mac mini running macOS Ventura version 13.1. This boot system has been upgraded in a continuous sequence since my first macOS X system in 2001, version by version, so all the aggregated customizations and modifications of 21 years of use are reflected in it. When I was working, testing new macOS revisions along with doing my regular work as most internal engineering folks at Apple do, I saw much more of these factory defaults as I installed OS revisions pre-release directly from the internal servers, probably up to ten times a week. Since I was testing at that time, part of my testing was to set my personal preferences and defaults including moving the default pick from an iCloud account location to my local storage. I'm glad the article articulated the 'Command-D' action to move the storage location to the Desktop folder. Once you do that, the list of choices in the popup and in the rest of the file selection dialog changes to show more local storage options. Once you choose iCloud from the popup menu, the file system is lock there with iCloud options until you type Command-D again. That's all I've ever used when the storage location happened to be locked to iCloud and I wanted it to be elsewhere .. never changed any defaults or such. Once you switch it to a local drive, it stays on local storage until you once again choose iCloud as a storage location. I use Command-D so much as a matter of reflex that I completely forgot to mention it. My bad, sorry! A poor excuse, but I've been working with macOS for so long, and through so many many revisions both in itself and in the hardware it's running on, that I often forget the many small details of my use since they're all embedded into my muscle memory and I don't actually think about them consciously at all… :) G > On Jan 8, 2023, at 7:16 AM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 this, but haven’t tried it yet: > > https://osxdaily.com/2012/08/20/change-save-location-from-icloud-to-local-mac-storage-os-x/ > > Rick > >> On Jan 7, 2023, at 10:16 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 NOTHING to do with Rick's question. >> At all. >> >> Good night. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
