There are other iCloud related changes in Mountain Lion that may affect your preferences, but that are not affected by the changes made to iTunes settings suggested by Ganbustein. In the Bugs and Fixes topic Default folder changes in Mountain Lion Ted Landau discusses the fact that certain new documents get saved to iCloud by default in Mountain Lion. The new default setting cannot be permanently changed other than by unchecking Documents & Data in iCloud’s System Preferences. This behavior is currently shown by TextEdit and Preview, as well as certain 3rd party apps, but will presumably be extended to other apps as well.


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