How to Move Your Mac files to a Windows PC. Connect your external drive to your Mac, open the drive and select File. Select New Folder. Type Exported Files' and hit Return. Skip to Step.

There is no supported method of moving the iCloud folder location. What you can do, if you are willing, is: 1) install either OSX Yosemite or Windows (7 or 8) on a virtual drive (e.g. VMware Fusion, Parallels, Virtual Box).

2) Make sure the virtual file is located on a USB 3.0/thunderbolt drive (NOTE: do not attempt this if your mac does not have either type of drive, for it will be very slow). 3) Choose an amount of storage that is suitable for your iCloud files 4) Once you installed your virtual system of your choice, if you installed OSX: a) Set up iCloud as always and let all files download b) Create an Alias of the iCloud Drive folder and paste it somewhere in your local drive 5) If you are using Windows: a) Make sure to install iCloud control panel and turn on iCloud Drive b) Using your mac, you need to go to your separate drive, ctrl click the virtual file and choose 'show contents' c) locate the iCloud Drive folder and create an alias and paste it on your local drive. I know it doesn't sound practical, but like I said, there is no actual support for moving the icloud folder location without some hacking that may simply render iCloud drive useless. I can only tell you that I am pretty confident that my method works for iCloud Drive and other services that do not support moving their folder location. The virtual machine you made will sync and update files just like your computer do and will not use space on your local drive. Another advantage is that the virtual machine file is movable so you can put it on a larger hard disk if you ever need more space.

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By Sometimes you need to move or duplicate files and folders in Mac OS X Lion. One way to copy icons from one place to another is to use the Clipboard. When a file or folder icon is selected, choose Edit→Copy (or use its shortcut, Command+C) to copy the selected icon to the Clipboard. Note that this doesn’t delete the selected item; it just makes a copy of it on the Clipboard. To paste the copied icon in another location, choose Edit→Paste (or use its shortcut, Command+V). Other methods of copying icons in Mac OS X Lion from one place to another include these: • Drag an icon from one folder icon onto another folder icon while holding down the Option key.

Release the mouse button when the second folder is highlighted. When you copy something by dragging and dropping it with the Option key held down, the cursor changes to include a little plus sign (+) next to the arrow.

• Drag an icon into an open window for another folder while holding down the Option key. Drag the icon for the file or folder that you want to copy into the open window for a second folder (or other hard disk or removable media such as a USB flash drive). • Choose File→Duplicate (Command+D) or right- or Control-click the file or folder that you want to duplicate and then choose Duplicate from the contextual menu that appears. This makes a copy of the selected icon, adds the word copy to its name, and then places the copy in the same window as the original icon. You can cut an icon’s name, but you can’t cut the icon itself; you may only copy an icon. To achieve the effect of cutting an icon, select the icon, copy it to the Clipboard, paste it in its new location, and then move the original icon to the Trash.