> On 22 Dec 2016, at 5:19 pm, Marcus F Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, After a long WAMUG correspondence trying to fix an issue with > Notification Centre which did not work after the upgrade to Sierra from El > Capitan, I erased my iMac 27 HD with Disk Utility. > > Then I went away on holiday with my laptop and returned this week to my iMac > 27,which used to hold all my files. > The iMac 27 now operates well with Sierra OS 10.121.2 and with just the basic > applications installed with thee reset. > > However with the new setup every new file went straight to iCloud Drive. > > I turned off iCloud Drive and there's a new Documents folder in Finder. > That’s fine but I need to recover those backed up. > ALSO, where is the iMac 27 HD disk image, I expected that to appear on the > desktop?
Sierra boasts a new feature called iCloud Documents an Desktop, which synchronises all the files on your Desktop and your Documents Folder (there’s no choice here) to iCloud, the idea being that all of those files become available to all of your other devices. It is turned on by default in a new Sierra installation, s when you first run Sierra it copies all of yourt candidate files up to iCloud Drive and deletes them from your computer. Fine if you have less that 5Gb of files, and you don’t use iCloud Drive for anything else. My documents Folder contains well over 700Gb of files created over many years of activity, so I was very careful to make sure I turned this feature off before running Sierra for the first time. There are quite a few articles out on the web which deal with the position in which you now find yourself, Just a couple can be found at http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/09/24/marshall-desktop-documents <http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/09/24/marshall-desktop-documents> and http://www.howtogeek.com/273629/how-to-restore-your-desktop-and-documents-after-disabling-icloud-sync-in-macos-sierra/ <http://www.howtogeek.com/273629/how-to-restore-your-desktop-and-documents-after-disabling-icloud-sync-in-macos-sierra/> First thing to do, therefore, is to turn iCloud Drive back on, and you will find all your documents in place is specific folders. The above articles contain tips on how to restore things to the way they were. You will then be able to turn iCloud Documents and Desktop off and never bother it again. > > Otherwise what do I really need to reinstall from the backup. Following a clean install of Sierra (which is essentiall wehat you have) you cam use Migration Assistant (in /Applications/Utilities) to "restore from a Time Machine Disk”. This will bring everything back painlessly, but in your new Sierra environment (ie, you won’t revert to the previous OS). All the best, Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
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