Hi everyone.
Right now, I went to set up iCloud Drive on my Mac. When I went to download a 15 gb folder, my Mac said this after about 30 minutes of downloading. Downloading 10,687 items (3.60 GB of 57.39 GB).
Mac, I did not ask you to use 1/3 of my start up disc when I just wanted to download my folder with Logic Pro projects in it. The sad thing is, that this folder finished faster on my 14 pro than it would on the Mac. How do I know? It's only 3 gb done and I started it a good while ago. My internet is good enough for the 14 pro to download it, so why can't the m1 (supposedly faster than intel) processes on my Mac just not finish it and then download 1000000000000000000 Tb of iCloud data that I don't need?
This is a common issue that me and a lot of friends have. I have a huge iCloud Drive, containing about 500 or more gb of data. I do not need ALL of that on my Mac at one time.
It's called the cloud for a reason.
Do you know of any way to stop the space eater called iCloud Drive?
all help would be appreciated.
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Optimize Mac storage
There is a setting that only stores recent iCloud Drive files locally on your Mac that can be enabled by going to System Settings > [your name] > iCloud, and enabling the "Optimize Mac storage" toggle. If you want to remove a file or folder that's already been downloaded, locate it in Finder and choose "Remove download" from the context menu, accessed by pressing VO-Shift-M.
HTH
Thank you for the help.
From what I have seen, this only affects the desktop and documents folders I think, because when the setting was turned on, it still downloaded everything. There is no way to tell what folder or folders it’s downloading because it just downloads what seems like the whole entire drive. when I would remove them from downloads in the Finder, it didn’t really seem to help. Any new installation of macOS is plagued with this issue, not just for me, but for other people too. It’s completely random as to what it downloads and it prevents me from accessing my files and is super annoying. I have dool booted my Mac with macOS Monterey (because it’s faster and vocalizer voices are better) and macOS Ventura beta testing.
it only leaves me with around 350 GB or less of usable storage on the main volume with 150 GB on my beta testing system volume. This issue requires me to turn off iCloud drive on the Mac to save space, but then when I want to turn it on to get a single file, everything is downloaded Instead of what I need and my file does not get downloaded.
Oh by the way, that folder I wanted to download? Turns out it didn’t download on the 14 Pro either and a half of it was downloaded or something, and the Mac didn’t even Download at all.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.