# XMenu when iOS devises share a common iCloud Desktop

**URL:** <https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/xmenu-when-ios-devises-share-a-common-icloud-desktop/85780>\
**Category:** Needful things\
**Tags:** sync\
**Created:** [December 6, 2025, 6:13am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/xmenu-when-ios-devises-share-a-common-icloud-desktop/85780 "2025-12-06T06:13:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 6:13am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/xmenu-when-ios-devises-share-a-common-icloud-desktop/85780/1 "2025-12-06T06:13:19Z")

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I share a common iCloud based Desktop for my iMac, my MacBook and my iPad so that they all remain in sync. I have not been able to properly list a General folder on my desktop that keeps a hierarchy of all my docs and folders. Any time I drop the General folder into one of the XMenu options, it disappears from the Desktop and no longer shares info with the other iOS cpus. What is the proper way to do this? Mahalo!- Rob

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**Author:** ![cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/cgrunenberg/32/7172_2.png) [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 10:15am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/xmenu-when-ios-devises-share-a-common-icloud-desktop/85780/2 "2025-12-08T10:15:20Z")

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> [@easybird](#):
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> Any time I drop the General folder into one of the XMenu options

It’s not possible to customize XMenu that way. But you could enable the custom menu and add aliases to the folder `~/Library/Application Support/XMenu/Custom`

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**Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 6:27am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/xmenu-when-ios-devises-share-a-common-icloud-desktop/85780/3 "2025-12-09T06:27:44Z")

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Alias do not work when added to the custom library folder. It says so right in the instructions, as well as can be easily documented by trying it. Got any other ideas?

Aloha ke Akua

Rob

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**Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 6:58am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/xmenu-when-ios-devises-share-a-common-icloud-desktop/85780/4 "2025-12-09T06:58:01Z")

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Using an alias in the “user defined” menu item still does not allow a normal hierarchy display of contacts. I just get “none”. So my question remains how can I get a menu hierarchy using XMenu for a folder on my “desktop” that is shared across several CPU machines on iCloud. If I put the folder into a xMenu library, it disappears from the desktop and is no longer shared. If I try and use an alias, no hierarchy is created. Is there a solution?

Mahalo.

Rob

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**Author:** ![cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/cgrunenberg/32/7172_2.png) [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 7:15am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/xmenu-when-ios-devises-share-a-common-icloud-desktop/85780/5 "2025-12-09T07:15:14Z")

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Does XMenu have full disk access? In addition, for the application folder there’s a dedicated menu option.

> [@easybird](#):
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> If I put the folder into a xMenu library, it disappears from the desktop and is no longer shared.

Did you actually move the folder instead of creating an alias?

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/xmenu-when-ios-devises-share-a-common-icloud-desktop/85780/6 "2025-12-12T23:04:10Z")

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No, I created an alias and moved that into the user defined preference.

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**Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 12:01pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/xmenu-when-ios-devises-share-a-common-icloud-desktop/85780/7 "2025-12-13T12:01:02Z")

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What about full disk access?

I don’t use iCloud to sync Desktop & Documents, so I can’t test that setup. But an alias of a folder in iCloud Drive works fine here, even without full disk access.

Are you dropping the alias directly on the menu bar? Try opening `~/Library/Application Support/XMenu/Custom` in a Finder window and drop the alias there. That’s what I did.