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Puzzled by iCloud Drive

  • 29-05-2019 09:54AM
    #1
    JonMac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 469 ✭✭


    Now that I have unlimited broadband, I thought I would try iCloud Drive. I had purchased the 200GB option already as I have 80GB in Photos.
    I changed the settings on my iMac System Preferences and was astonished when the Desktop was emptied; I managed to drag my usual stuff back on to it.
    What is puzzling me is that iCloud settings [on Mac and phone] say I still have 115 GB available, yet iCloud Documents says the storage is full, and that the folder has 106GB in it.
    I just don't get the arithmetic here!


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  • #2
    Doodah7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,899 ✭✭✭Doodah7


    How much space is left on the hard Drive of your Mac?? There is a setting (a tickbox) whereby if a drive is running low on space, it will dump the contents of your computer up to the cloud.

    https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT206985


  • #3
    JonMac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 469 ✭✭JonMac


    HD looks good: Used 573GB, available 465GB.
    I thought that it would sync like Photos, where I have full sized files on the iMac and in iCloud.
    Although my HD seems to still have all the documents, Finder only shows them under iCloud Documents.
    Maybe Apple's system hasn't caught up yet, but iCloud Settings says I've still got the 115GB available, and it shows the bulk of the storage is 82GB of Photos.


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