How to use iCloud without let it control my files?

I'm not a fan of iCloud or machinery interfering with my activities.

I had hoped to share my calendar with another computer in my home. During the implementation of the share through the cloud, I discovered that I have disabled my contacts in the list of things to share iCloud, the result would be that my laptop would lose all contact information.

Just my experimentation with the cloud, put in place, I lost control of my machine.

Now, if I cancel all my laptop upward has no contact info.

Apple seems to think that I want to keep my connection with the cloud living and still active. I don't.

Allowing the iCloud list to stay disabled restored my contacts. Unplug the ethernet cable, I found that Yes, I always had my contacts in my computer.

Now, they are also in the iCloud? Can they be dumped there?

I hate the presumption by apple that I want to store my contacts (and other files) in the cloud when all I had hoped to do was sync/share a calendar... and only the calendar.

Not only is my placed information in the cloud, but also the information on the computer I wanted to share with took in the lands of apple.

The owner of the other computer is not happy to now be obliged to keep the cloud full of personal documents and active. This owner also wants to clear the cloud of personal records.

Is this possible?

Are there manuals that describe the process?

I would say iCloud is not the tool for you.

That said, any other "sync" calendar type service works pretty much the same. 2 computers do not speak with each other directly. They use a server as a synchronization point. A 'cloud' is part of the synchronization process.

What you want is a shared calendar that does not use a cloud server based to synchronize.

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