Everytime I save something in Mountain Lion it wants to save to iCloud and not my computer. Is there a command line entry to solve this issue?
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How Do I Save Files To My Computer Instead Of iCloud By Default?
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I know what you mean. I've taken to simply pressing Command+D to jump to my local desktop as soon as the Save dialog appears. Command+Shift+H works too, and takes you to your home folder. Command+Shift+O is the Documents folder.
That works fine for me, as how often do you need to save a brand new document? Probably once or twice a day for me. I can do a keyboard shortcut once or twice a day to get what I want.
But there is a way to set a hidden system preference for this. In Terminal, you need to type:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false
This is for a friend that does not use iCloud because they only have a iMac and no other IOS Devices. It is a older lady I know.
Oh, in that case it is much easier. If you never want to use iCloud, just go into System Preferences, iCloud and turn off "Documents & Data." Then you won't even have the ability to save to iCloud. It will work as it did before iCloud with the local drives being the only option.
Thanks Gary.. YOU ROCK!
Have a great Friday ahead!
An easy way to deal with this... download and install Mountain Lion Tweaks ($3 Shareware). It has an on/off toggle for disabling this "feature". See: [http://tweaksapp.com/app/mountain-tweaks/]