Move documents folder to icloud drive?

[kristoffer4]

Hey. Merry Christmas.

I can only copy my documents folder to icloud drive? I want to move there instead. That way when I make changes to my documents they will sync automatically. Can this be done?

 

[rctlr]

Yes.
Move the Documents Folder to your iCloud Area:
Open Terminal and run the following (changing the yourusername bit to your username) :

mv ~/Documents /Users/{yourusername}/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs

That moves your Documents Folder to you iCloud Folder, and it's best to make a symbolic like back into the normal place so that applications find it easily. From the same Terminal window run the following:

ln -s /Users/{yourusername}/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents ~/Documents

and if all is ok you should have something like this if you type in

ls -l ~/

lrwxr-xr-x 1 rocutler staff 70 20 Jul 18:15 Documents -> /Users/USERNAME/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents

Hope this helps.

 

[jbarley]

Yes.
Move the Documents Folder to your iCloud Area:
Open Terminal and run the following (changing the yourusername bit to your username) :

mv ~/Documents /Users/{yourusername}/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs

That moves your Documents Folder to you iCloud Folder, and it's best to make a symbolic like back into the normal place so that applications find it easily. From the same Terminal window run the following:

ln -s /Users/{yourusername}/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents ~/Documents

and if all is ok you should have something like this if you type in

ls -l ~/

lrwxr-xr-x 1 rocutler staff 70 20 Jul 18:15 Documents -> /Users/USERNAME/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents

Hope this helps.

rctlr
good answer, just the kind of help the OP needed, 2 years ago.