For some reason iCloud is taking up over 30 gigabytes of storage on my MacBook Air. How do I get rid of this? I though the whole point of iCloud was to save space not eat it up! I'm on macOS Sierra 10.2
MacOS – Why does iCloud take up 30+ gigs of storage on the Mac
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What to do when you do not have enough storage because your backup size is too large:
- Delete the current backup on your iCloud for that specific iOS device.
- Your iCloud backup is now automatically turned off, so turn it back on.
- A new backup is made and has a reasonable size.
Theoretically your phone could crash in the short while you do not have a backup, so you could run an iTunes backup first.
- Back up your devices
- Jump in the iCloud pool
- See if you like it
Given your landscape, having one set of photos instead of managing them on many devices alone seems worth simplifying things via iCloud. I'm also a big fan of iTunes Match and Apple Music despite having tens of thousands of CD and phonograph recordings digitized.
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Your iCloud Drive contents are cached. After looking over the new storage management features in Sierra, doesn't look like the "Optimize Storage" feature will clear that.
If you go to About this Mac > Storage > Manage > iCloud Drive are there options there to remove files locally? I don't use it personally so mine's empty. :)