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  • 20-10-2014 09:49AM
    #1
    displaced dub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭


    Hi All

    Looking for some simple advice really so just want to bounce this around and see what people think

    Have a 4 year old iMac, thinking of getting a macbook pro. Obviously file storage is smaller, thinking 500GB.

    So i want to transfer some files so not going to do a time machine. Want to start using more cloud services. Currently use Dropbox for excel and office files.

    For instance we've 141GB of Photos, 290GB of Movies, 50GB Music and Apps 97GB.

    Will clean all of the above up. Anyone with any ideas in how i manage the above and what cloud service to use? iCloud Drive?


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  • #2
    Sad Professor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,710 ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    iCloud Drive is for documents. You could use iCloud Photo Library for your photos, but it’s not up and running fully yet and won’t be until the new year when the Mac app is released. In any case, neither Dropbox nor iCloud will save you space on your computer. They are both mainly syncing services. The notion that cloud services allow you save on local storage is a myth.

    Get an external hard drive. Nobody stores all their media on their internal.


  • #3
    displaced dub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭displaced dub


    Thanks Prof, might look at macbook pro along with a wireless Time Machine/ router


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