Disappearing files on Mac Desktop running Sequoia 15.1

Any file I drag or send to my desktop appears for a couple of seconds and then disappears and moves to my iCloud drive. I can’t find the setting in Sequoia to stop this from happening. Can anyone help, please? I have tried for so long to find the answer.

Do you have iCloud disk storage optimisation turned on?

I’ll guess you have this turned on in System Settings → General → Storage → Store in iCloud…

Yes, I do have disk storage optimization turned on.

I have turned off the “desktop and documents” in “Choose what you want to store in iCloud.” I thought this was the answer. Instead, the “Desktop and Documents” slider will not stay turned off. Each time I return to the setting, the slider switched back to on. The problem persists. Thanks so much for trying to help me.

That then is probably the root cause of the symptoms you see.

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Thanks for helping me isolate the issue. Perhaps a new software update will fix problem. I’ll look for a work around also.