


But that’s not how I roll, and many other people don’t either. And then, when they buy a new computer, rather than restore from a Time Machine backup (which is what I’d still recommend), they can just sign into their iCloud account and have access to all of their stuff, much like on their iPhone.īut what about the Downloads folder? Apple makes clear they expect what’s in your Downloads folder to be temporary, to be moved to elsewhere, or deleted.

ICloud Drive Desktop and Documents (which I’ll just call iCDD) takes care of that for them. Dropbox is probably more reliable and flexible, but it requires that you have a workflow of saving stuff into your Dropbox folder, and some Mac users just don’t want to do that they want to put stuff in the Desktop and Documents folders that come on the computer, and call it a day. ICloud Drive Desktop and Documents sync has been a game changer in terms of Mac users having the same stuff on all computers.
