Apple ID on my computer no longer exists, so I can't sign out

The Apple ID that is installed on my computer is no longer the email address that I use for my Apple ID, and the email account itself has been deleted so I cannot sign into it to change the settings. My current Apple ID works online on apple.com but I want to put it on my computer, except I can't sign out of the old nonexistent ID without it telling me that it is going to delete my documents, and I can't sign in to change the settings to remove them from iCloud so they don't get deleted. How do I tell which documents are even on iCloud so I can try to change my Apple ID and actually use iCloud without deleting my documents?

katieshort77 wrote:
How do I tell which documents are even on iCloud so I can try to change my Apple ID and actually use iCloud without deleting my documents?
Look inside your ~/Library/Mobile Documents/ folder. (Open Finder, from the Go menu select "Go to Folder", paste ~/Library/Mobile Documents/ in to the box and click Go.) In Mavericks, Pages documents, for example, will be in ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~Pages/Documents.
Save these documents in a folder on your desktop before deleting the account if you want to keep copies.

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