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ICloud Drive lets you open, edit, and sync documents and files across devices. (More information is available here.)Īpple’s macOS will automatically save files saved to your Desktop and Documents folders to iCloud, making these files available across all your devices. That’s useful but will eat into your online drive capacity, particularly as (at 5GB) Apple still doesn’t provide sufficient free drive space. ICloud Drive is automatically set up on any current Apple device running the latest operating system. The Mac you activate last will create its own folder for the contents of its Documents and Desktop, and this will also sync. If you use iCloud Drive across multiple Macs then changes made to the Documents and Desktop files on both Macs will sync. This is a real file system, so you can create and save items to your own self-created folders, which is useful if you work across multiple devices.

Changes applied to a copy of a file on one device will automatically sync across all your other systems. Open Files and you'll find iCloud Drive as a location. On iOS devices, you access your iCloud Drive through the Files app. You can store documents, images and spreadsheets using iCloud Drive you can also keep files and folders up-to-date across devices, work on them, and access these items from anywhere. A PC must run Windows 10 to access iCloud for Windows. How to move an Apple Photos for OS X library to an external drive.” The column is from 2015, but the instructions remain accurate.You need to be running iOS 13 or later or macOS Catalina or later on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

Apple makes it quite easy to move your library and point Photos to it, including syncing to iCloud Photos from that migrated library.

The obvious solution would be to use an external drive to hold your Photos library. While Photos for macOS lets you maintain multiple Photos libraries, only one library at a time can be designated the System Photo Library, and only the System Photo Library can sync with iCloud Photos. There’s no option at to “download all media from iCloud,” and iCloud as a service doesn’t offer an interface for third-party backup services, like Backblaze or Carbonite, to extract or regularly update such a backup, either. Is there a way to work around this? Not easily. But I still think we should always want and expect to have at least one-but typically multiple-complete copies of our important data in our possession or fully under our control. And the company has been trustworthy with your data. Apple tends to encourage that these days with iCloud. The gist is that it’s risky to trust someone else, anyone else-even Apple-with the only backup of your stuff.