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Aug 31, 2015 1:18 PM in response to roconnby Kappy,★HelpfulBecause your iCloud Drive maintains a copy in a folder on your computer.
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Aug 31, 2015 1:50 PM in response to Kappyby _Ty Cox_,You can possibly save drive space by deselecting ‘Download Originals to This Mac’ in Photos’ Preferences settings. Unfortunately, the remaining option, ‘Optimize Mac Storage’ will still retain full-resolution photos on your drive if space permits. I’m unsure what the threshold is when the app substitutes a lower resolution (smaller file size) copy. Would be nice if One could choose to always store only low rez copies locally.
Also, you can change the location of your Photos library and continue to store photos on another drive. Go to Photos’ Preferences>General.
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Sep 2, 2015 9:53 PM in response to Old Toadby _Ty Cox_,Wait, I'm apparently ignorant. How can One upload photos directly to iDrive? I thought iDrive only accomodated files uploaded from apps that utilize it?
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Sep 3, 2015 10:10 AM in response to Old Toadby _Ty Cox_,This is fantastic news. I have been beta testing the forthcoming desktop and mobile OS’s. Within the new iDrive folder, I saw another folder titled ’Test iCloud folder’. I dragged a file into it. It never synced to my phone or iPad. I assumed the folder served a development purpose and wasn’t for my use. After reading your post, I toggled iCloud Drive off and on on my mobile devices. The file synced!
Does this mean iCloud Drive can be a replacement for services like Dropbox?
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Sep 3, 2015 10:20 AM in response to _Ty Cox_by Old Toad,Does this mean iCloud Drive can be a replacement for services like Dropbox?
In a manner of speaking. It's not an off Mac storage option because any change made on one device is reflected on all devices that are signed in to the same Apple iCloud account. If you delete a file from your Mac's iCloud Drive it will be deleted from online as well as all other devices.
It can be use to sync files to all of your devices. I Space is limited to the 5 GB of free space allotted to each Apple account. Any more and you'll have to purchase additional space.
More on the iCloud Drive is described here:


