Hi all,
I am tired of moving to the sidebar to find my icloud folder to see my files. How can I create a desktop shortcut to make it easier for me? I can not find the path of the folder.
Thanks for any help.
The top-level iCloud Drive is actually an application and not a folder.
You can add it to your desktop by searching "This Mac" in the Finder for "iCloud Drive", creating an alias of the iCloud Drive application that's the only result (on my Mac) and moving the alias to your Desktop.
When you open the alias on your Desktop, the contents of iCloud Drive will be displayed in the Finder.
The root of your iCloud Drive is at “~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs”, if that's what you were asking. You could create a symlink to that folder which you could then leave on your desktop. Be aware that Finder tries really, really hard to obscure this fact from you, because it doesn't want you messing up your "Mobile Documents" folder. But it should work.
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Not sure but
I’m not sure about the desktop shortcut, but there is a keyboard shortcut.
Press Command, Shift, I.
I've got my iCloud desktop…
I've got my iCloud desktop synced to my desktop. Have you got that turned on in storage settings, I think it is.
then the shortcut for desktop is command shift D.
Command shift I for iCloud
Command shift I for iCloud
The top-level iCloud Drive…
The top-level iCloud Drive is actually an application and not a folder.
You can add it to your desktop by searching "This Mac" in the Finder for "iCloud Drive", creating an alias of the iCloud Drive application that's the only result (on my Mac) and moving the alias to your Desktop.
When you open the alias on your Desktop, the contents of iCloud Drive will be displayed in the Finder.
iCloud Drive in the Filesystem
The root of your iCloud Drive is at “~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs”, if that's what you were asking. You could create a symlink to that folder which you could then leave on your desktop. Be aware that Finder tries really, really hard to obscure this fact from you, because it doesn't want you messing up your "Mobile Documents" folder. But it should work.