Don’t forget the account ID and passwords though, forgetting the access credentials could lead to trouble. The first step is to open the iCloud website and log in using your ID and password. Choose a different disk drive that’s formatted as NTFS, click OK, then click OK again. Click the Options button next to iCloud Drive, then click Change. If iCloud Drive is enabled, deselect it, then click Apply. ICloud is one of the easiest cloud computing platforms to operate, especially simplified for the Apple users like any other Apple ecosystem. On your Windows computer, open iCloud for Windows. That worked fine, and I gradually increased the number of files selected in one go until I hit the limit - it's about 1000 files.

So I reset the 'Always keep' option again and this time tried just a few files. The whole process is automated and it’s super-efficient. Well, over a couple of days I watched lots of bandwidth being used by the icloud app, but no change in the free space on the disk. From iTunes, open Store Preference and select the options you want to sync with iCloud Drive and later on, whenever you download anything through iTunes those contents will be synced with iCloud drive across all your devices signed in with the specific Apple iCloud account. Upon installation of iCloud on a Windows OS computer platform, a new folder named iCloud Drive will be added to Windows Explorer Favorites and there will be separate folders for iCloud Drive data, Photos, Videos, Music, Bookmarks and Mail, Contacts, Calendars etc.

Each of these options could be checked and unchecked and options like Photos and Bookmarks could be modified even more using the Options button next to these checkboxes. First you must set up iCloud on an Apple device (Mac, iPad, iPhone), after which you must download the iCloud for Windows app to your compatible PC, install it. During the first launch, the first dialogue box would show account login options in the left pane and in the right hand side pane, there would be checkboxes with options like iCloud Drive, Photos, Bookmarks and Mail, Contacts, Calendars and Tasks. Launch iCloud from the desktop icon, or Start menu listing. When installing iCloud from the Microsoft Store it seems iCloud can only install on the same drive as the OS.

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