iCloud Drive question/help

[Natzoo]

I recently upgraded my iCloud plan to 200gb and wanted to turn on iCloud Drive, but the last time I had it on I almost lost all my files. I want to turn it on but only put a couple documents on there for easy access between devices but that’s it. Is that possible and how do I do that? My understanding is that once iCloud Drive is on, local files are all on the cloud and I only want 3-4 files on the cloud. All help is appreciated and currently have iCloud Drive off.

 

[Weaselboy]

What happens is when you turn it on everything in your Documents folder gets uploaded to iCloud Drive. What you could do is make another folder in your account called "Local Documents" or whatever and move everything in there you do not want in iCloud. Then only the remaining files you leave in Documents will get sent to iCloud Drive.