...since I am gun shy about getting rid of iCloud Drive b/c I might lose stuff, I will back my computer up with the external drive first and then try getting rid of iCloud Drive.
Good idea!
I'll suggest a step by step:
- Back up your MBP to your external.
- Also, back up just the data that's in the cloud to your Mavericks partition and maybe even your backup MBP for double or triple security.
- Turn off iCloud Drive on your MBP.
- Restore your data to your MBP.
- Back up your MBP to your external, again.
I'm not sure what you mean by synced folders. And why would I want to sync them again and to what? Syncing has caused me nothing but grief. I don't want to sync.
As you've read, turning off iCloud Drive doesn't remove your previously synced data from the cloud, so if you don't mind its remaining there, there's no need for you to sync.
But if you don't want to leave your data in the cloud, add these steps between #2 and #3:
- Delete all the data on your MBP that's in the cloud. (Don't forget that it's been securely backed up in two or three different locations.)
- Empty the trash.
- Sync your MBP with the cloud.
That final sync will delete your data from the cloud and you'll be back to square one, as if you'd never used it in the first place. (That's assuming that iCloud Drive works logically.
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