HT5527: iCloud: Complimentary storage upgrades for former MobileMe members expired on September 30, 2013

Learn about iCloud: Complimentary storage upgrades for former MobileMe members expired on September 30, 2013
fries9
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Q: My iCloud account says I am using 1.48GB of my 5GB allowance, but I've just totally lost an iMovie project I was working on - it's not accidently in the trash and even a couple of photos I did trash do not show up in there. Is there any connection?

My iCloud account says I am using 1.48GB of my 5GB allowance, but I've just totally lost an iMovie project I was working on - it's not accidently in the trash and even a couple of photos I did trash do not show up in there. Is there any connection? Should I increase my storage limit?

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Posted on Sep 28, 2013 8:34 AM

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Q: My iCloud account says I am using 1.48GB of my 5GB allowance, but I've just totally lost an iMovie project I was working on - it's ... more

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  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Sep 28, 2013 11:30 AM in response to fries9
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    Sep 28, 2013 11:30 AM in response to fries9

    Is this in iMovie on your Mac or on a mobile device?

     

    OT

  • by fries9,

    fries9 fries9 Sep 29, 2013 1:40 AM in response to Old Toad
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    Sep 29, 2013 1:40 AM in response to Old Toad

    It is iMovie on the Mac. I've done a search for the title and it does not appear anywhere. It's as if I deleted it somehow. I'm not particularly computer literate but I've been using Macs for some 30 years and have never had anything like it before - I find it extremely unlikely that I could delete a whole project by accident - it would assume I'd highlighted the project and went to the menu and clicked 'delete', or highlighted every element of it and clicked on the back-arrow.

     

    I just had an anonymous mail saying I'd used 98% of my mail storage allowance which told me to click on a link (highlighted as untrustworthy so I did not do it), and then one from Mac saying I'd used 1.42GB of my 5GB iCloud allowance and wondered if there could be any connection.

  • by Old Toad,Helpful

    Old Toad Old Toad Sep 29, 2013 9:02 AM in response to fries9
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    Sep 29, 2013 9:02 AM in response to fries9

    iMovie on your Mac  has nothing to do with iCloud storage.  Download and use Find Any File  to search for your iMovie project.  FAF can search areas that Spotlight can't, like invisible folders, packages and system folders.  If there a file with your file name on it anywhere on the hard drive FAF will find it.

     

    Do you have Time Machine enabled backing up to an external HD?  This situation is exactly what TM is good at.  It makes hourly backups so you can go back to find and restore the missing file.  All HDs crash at some time or another and having a good backup strategy is the only protection against that.