iCloud Drive and automatic download

[ragnu]

I haven't upgraded to Sierra yet, but have read that computers running Sierra no longer download everything in iCloud Drive to the iCloud Drive folder, but simply show you what is in iCloud Drive, so that you can download files individually, the way it works on an iPad. Is this true? If so, it's a real problem for me, and I won't install Sierra unless there's some option to automatically download everything (the way it works with Dropbox).