Last Updated: September 09, 2019
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· franklouwers

Default Location for new Documents shouldn't be iCloud

Apple's iCloud is great! It works well, it behaves rather sanely, I've had no sync issues so far etc.

However, I don't want to store the vast majority of my documents on iCloud. I keep them organised in folders, either on my workstation or on Dropbox. I occasionally save a Numbers or Pages on iCloud, but not often.

Yet, by default, a lot of Mac Apps think I want to save my documents on iCloud.

I found out there is a setting you can flip to disable that behaviour. So gentlemen and gentlewomen, start your engines, I mean your Terminal.app and issue the following magic command:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false

Et voila ... sanity restored!