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I'm using iCloud to add additional storage to my Macbook. I'm trying to upload some or external hard drives, but it's a slow process since I can't extend the free space.
Is there a way to change the default free space on my local harddrive that way I can force more storage onto the cloud?
There certainly isn't the same amount necessary as the DMG, so you sure can mount a 100GB DMG into a file system that has less (there will be trivial consumptions, maybe a few kb, but nothting that you'll notice).
The whole thing works in the way, that the system attaches a file-system driver to the file with the DMG. The driver will present the DMG file to the system like an "external" drive and perform file requests on behalf of the system on the contents of the file.
Essentially the driver will says to MacOS: We have a new volume here. So MacOS will then ask the driver. "Give me a list of content in it", and then the driver examines the inside of the file and presents the list of files organized inside the DMG. Etc.
Yes. You can start Photos app and turn off iCloud backed storage.
You can see that the Photos Library is not my System Photo Library
Then you can import all the photos you want locally and observe how much space it takes. I'm using DaisyDisk, but Finder can show you folder size as well. I have a small system library that I'm using to test out the cloud side of things (15k photos) while I do the heavy lifting on non-system Photo libraries.
Once I'm happy with how albums and such work, I'll probably unify everything so that it fits within 200 GB of space that I'm budgeting for within iCloud.
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It appears at this time, that if the concept of "default free local hard drive space" exists, it is not accessible through any known interface. Not the user interface or terminal.