(I posted this to the apple forum but they’re a bunch of tyrants over there so I don’t think they’ll let me upload this)
ok I stopped syncing iCloud with my MacBook because it wouldn’t stop uploading things I didn’t want it to upload, and now, even though I stopped syncing it, it is continuing to upload my stuff to the drive. I’ve restarted my computer a few times, I’m just trying to download my stuff and move it over to an external drive, and it’s actually refusing to even download anything. I even turned off the cloud and downloaded copies, and while that worked for some of my files, it left others on the drive and wouldn’t download them, so I had to turn it back on to get them. Once I did, the cloud immediately dumped a bunch of stuff I already deleted on my desktop.
I am barely looking for advice. I’m slowly getting through this process, but I’m posting because I need someone somewhere to talk about how bad iCloud is. It’s fussy, oftentimes completely unresponsive, and in trying to automate the process of offloading some of my storage, it has rendered some of my files completely inaccessible (since they won’t download from the cloud and they’re Adobe files). This service sucks, and if I get another notification from apple to extend my cloud storage I will take my MacBook to an apple store and break it over some poor geek’s head.