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Change OS X's Save Default Away From iCloud
Mar 11, 2025
A quick way to change the default save location in Mountain Lion. Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/MichaelSteeber Follow Cult Of Mac on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/CultOfMac defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool true
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hey everyone this is Michael with culac
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here and today I'm going to show you a
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pretty simple tip uh for OS 10 Mountain
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line uh as you may know when you go to
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type a document and text edit Pages
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pretty much any program that uses iCloud
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uh for example here if I just type test
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uh when you go up to the file menu and
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click save the default save location is
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always always iCloud and and it can be a
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little bit annoying especially for me I
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don't always want to save everything to
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iCloud I like to save things to my
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documents folder or my desktop if I just
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want to keep them temporarily I don't
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always want everything in iCloud and
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it's been very frustrating for me to go
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up and then click iCloud and then go
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down to documents every time when I used
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to be able to just type in whatever
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title I wanted and then just hit enter
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thanks to a couple commands I found
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submitted by a user over on Mac OS 10
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hint there's a way that you can now
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change the default location away from
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iCloud for all the iCloud enabled apps
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and uh it's very nice so I'm going to
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show you how you can use that command
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here today so what you're going to want
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to do here is go and open up
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finder then go from there go into
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Macintosh HD applications and then go to
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utilities of course now in utilities
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you'll have
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terminal so all you have to do in
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terminal uh is bring in these lines of
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text and it's fairly simple uh but the
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the text is pretty big so I'm just going
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to copy and paste it right into here and
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that's all you have to do and you can
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see that it says default write NS Global
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domain NS document save new documents to
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iCloud minus Bo false uh so when you hit
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enter what you're going to see is it's
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just going to bring you back to this
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prompt and you're all done and you can
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quit terminal and it's really that easy
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it's very simple so now anytime you
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launch something like text edit again
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and I'll type in something here and go
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to the save dialogue box you can see now
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it'll save rights documents and now from
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here if you want it to save to iCloud
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you it's still available in the menu
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here but it's not the default and it's
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not always there bugging you when you
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can't go to the file system now when you
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want to go back and reverse this is as
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simple as putting in the other line of
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text here that I I'll both have below
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the video and that's basically the same
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thing but instead of false you're going
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to want to have true and when you hit
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enter it'll be reversed just like that
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you're not going to see anything within
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terminal uh but it will be back to
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normal so there you go it's just a quick
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simple tip but it's something really
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easy uh to fix a very frustrating
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problem that I've had and I'm pretty
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sure many other users have had in OS 10
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Mountain line of course if you have
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anything that you'd like to see me do a
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how to on make sure to send me an email
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this is Michael with culon Ma and thank
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you for watching
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