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FILES & FOLDERS IN ICLOUD

Source: When you put Desktop and Documents in iCloud, files there are automatically uploaded.

HOW IT’S MEANT TO WORK

By using iCloud Drive and associated features across macOS and iOS, your saved documents are available on any device, happily living inside whatever folder hierarchy you’ve created for them.

HOW TO MAKE IT WORK

Again, this one is complicated. Apple sees a future in which you never need to worry about having saved a file or folder on the “wrong device” again, thereby temporarily putting it out of reach when you most need it. But we’re not there yet, and

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