Stop TextEdit from using iCloud save
Solution 1:
Saving to cloud is easy to disable in system preferences:
- Go to the iCloud Preference Pane
- Select iCloud Drive
- Click on "Options"
- Check and uncheck the apps you want saved in iCloud.
This was tested on Yosemite and a Macbook Pro 2015
Solution 2:
You can run the following Terminal command, which will revert the new behaviour of saving new files to iCloud:
defaults write com.apple.TextEdit NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false
To set this for all apps, run…
defaults write -g NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false
To revert, replace false with true.