You don't have to log into iCloud.com to access iCloud Drive on your Mac. It's much simpler!
Thanks to iCloud Drive, Apple's cloud-based file sharing system, we can share files between Mac and iOS seamlessly. On iOS, you can find all of your files under the iCloud Drive app. On your Mac, everything can be found in the Finder window. Here's how.
How to access iCloud Drive on your Mac via Finder
Click on the Finder icon in your Mac dock.

In the Favorites section, click on iCloud Drive
Alternately, you can find iCloud Drive in the Go menu at the top of any Finder menu if you've removed it from the Favorites section.
Or, you can alway use the keyboard shortcut command + I.

By default, iCloud Drive maintains folders for each of the Apple iWork applications — Keynote, Pages and Numbers — along with folders used by Preview, QuickTime Player, Script Editor, TextEdit and Automator. With macOS Sierra, iCloud Drive also stores all of your Mac's desktop files and everything in your Documents folder. But that doesn't mean those are the only folders you can keep in iCloud Drive. You can put whatever you want in there, within the limits of your storage allotment for iCloud.
Treat iCloud Drive as you would any other remote volume, like an external hard disk or a network drive. You can create new folders inside iCloud Drive, or just drag and drop files and folders from existing locations on your Mac into iCloud Drive.
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How to access iCloud Drive through Finder on your Mac
What sort of animal uses Carousel view?
What sort of animal uses a vertical Dock unless you've got a portrait monitor (or very few icons in your Dock at least)? Everyone's different. I don't use Carousel view that much, but for folders with many images it's a nice way to flick through them with the trackpad and quickly stop at the one you want to select
I'd love to see an article covering iCloud Photo Library.
A preview of this feature - which is a central part of iOS & Yosemite - has been available to developers for some time and will reportedly be unleashed on the public on Monday. Nonetheless there appears to be no documentation on how it will work or what functionality it may remove - an unfortunate repeat of Apple's handling of iCloud Drive.
We're already seeing the beginnings of another possible shitstorm:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6598955
Apple has announced their intention to replace iPhoto (and Aperture) with a new iCloud-centric OS X Photos app that will be available "sometime in 2015." The app may or may not preserve the ability to manually manage which photos and videos are stored on which devices. Neither its feature set nor its delivery date have been revealed.
In the meantime, are we to understand that enabling iCloud Photo Library will remove iTunes' ability to sync specific photos, albums, and events to specific iOS devices? Will we also lose the ability to download photos, albums, and events from our iOS devices to our Macs? If the answer is yes to either or both of these questions this "upgrade" will be a disaster for anyone who wants to manage their photo collection. This is getting ridiculous.
When iOS 8 came out there were warnings not to enable iCloud Drive yet since it would sever the link to iMacs that were not yet running Yosemite.
Now that Yosemite is out, does it matter which gets enabled first? Should I enable iCloud Drive on my iPhone/iPad and THEN on my iMac after I download Yosemite? Vice versa? Or does it not matter?
Thanks!
@chicagomatt the order shouldn't matter. But be patient as there can be quite a lag between the time when you activate iCloud Drive and when the files start showing up on your iOS device. Resist the temptation to go into troubleshooting mode until after you've given it time to refresh everything,
Thanks! Seems to be working.
When I go to iCloud drive on my macbook, its empty. I thought my pages info would be there? Nothing is in there.
You have to save your documents in iCloud Drive for them to show up there. For example, if you save a document in Pages, select iCloud Drive and save it there, it will appear in iCloud Drive on all of your devices
Does anyone knows if using iCloud drive and similar to dropbox in that if you have 5gb on there it sync those 5gb to all your devices and takes that amount of space on each?
First of all, with Dropbox you have the option to select which folders get synced to which computers. This allows you to use Dropbox on computers with limited disk space that could never accommodate all the files you might have in your Dropbox folder.
I'm not certain how this works with iCloud Drive. It doesn't look like there's a simple control to select which cloud files to sync locally, but I've read comments from some that files in iCloud don't get downloaded to a computer until you actually try to open them on that computer. I haven't had a chance to test this, and Apple's interface does not make it obvious whether the file is stored locally or not.
When I select iCloud Drive from the sidebar nothing happens. The window shows folders from the previously selected location. Something is not right.
Had the same problem... restarting my mac solved it..
Thanks aw50me. That fixed it for me, too.
The first time I selected iCloud drive, it took a minute to populate. After that, it's just like selecting any other folder or drive.
Peter you wrote, "By default, iCloud Drive maintains folders for each of the Apple iWork applications... But that doesn't mean those are the only folders you can keep in iCloud Drive. You can put whatever you want in there, within the limits of your storage allotment for iCloud."
If I save a Pages document from my Mac on iCloud Drive, but outside of the Pages iCloud folder, is there any way to view or edit that file from an iOS device?
(I know I'm not going to like the answer, but might as well verify what I'm pissed about before I get pissed.)
Kind of nit picky, but I drug the iCloud Drive folder to my dock and it is just a nondescript folder. No special symbol like the other Home folders. Kind of strange the little cloud symbol isn't there.
I'm trying to use iCloud for all my photo files. However, when I'm in Lightroom, you cannot find the iCloud folder anywhere. (I've gone under users, etc trying to find it the long way through navigation - and I can't find it anywhere.) Has anyone found a solution? I even made an alias to iCloud on my desktop, hoping to use that to connect to it and the alias doesn't show up in Lightroom.
I'm not using Lightroom so I can't test it, but all applications should use the standard Finder view for browsing/saving files. For me iCloud Drive is in the Favorites menu in Finder, so if I want to save something there I just do a save as, and click iCloud Drive in the Favorites