# Local Folders not working

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/local-folders-not-working/19336>\
**Category:** Lettera feedback\
**Tags:** bug\
**Created:** [June 20, 2026, 2:09am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/local-folders-not-working/19336 "2026-06-20T02:09:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![matteo](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/matteo/32/21_2.png) [@matteo](https://community.bear.app/u/matteo)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2026, 9:17am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/local-folders-not-working/19336/2 "2026-06-20T09:17:27Z")

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> [@No in-place editing of Desktop/Document iCloud-backed folders](https://community.bear.app/t/no-in-place-editing-of-desktop-document-icloud-backed-folders/19334/3):
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> Hello folks, There’s some understandable confusion here, and it’s on us; we’re already discussing how to make this clearer in the app. The key thing: Lettera’s sidebar is a 1:1 mapping of a single folder on disk. By default it shows the iCloud Lettera folder, simply because that’s the one location we’re granted access to out of the box. From there: Dropping something into the sidebar copies it into the folder that window represents (hence the copy landing in iCloud). But you’re not limited t…

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