# No in-place editing of Desktop/Document iCloud-backed folders

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/no-in-place-editing-of-desktop-document-icloud-backed-folders/19334>\
**Category:** Lettera\
**Tags:** bug\
**Created:** [June 19, 2026, 10:40pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/no-in-place-editing-of-desktop-document-icloud-backed-folders/19334 "2026-06-19T22:40:31Z")\
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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, 9:09am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/no-in-place-editing-of-desktop-document-icloud-backed-folders/19334/3 "2026-06-20T09:09:52Z")

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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:

1. **Dropping** something into the sidebar **copies** it into the folder that window represents (hence the copy landing in iCloud).
2. But you’re **not** limited to iCloud — you can open _any_ folder via **File → Open…** or by dropping it onto Lettera’s **Dock icon**.

So for your case: to edit `~/Desktop/my-folder` **in place** , don’t drag it into the sidebar: **open it** instead (File → Open… or drop it on the Dock icon). Lettera will then map the sidebar to that folder, and your edits go straight to the real files on your Desktop. No copy, and no need to wait for the configurable-default-folder feature 🙂

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