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Q: Wasting Disk Space

Hi folks,

 

I've installed iCloud 5.0 on a Windows 8.1 /64Bit Maschine.

My goal is to have a copy of my Photos from three iOS Devices on my PC. Im using the iCloud Photolibrary not the Mediastream.

 

My photolibrary has an amount of 18GB.

 

Now my problem:

 

The folder "C:\Users\username\Appdata\Local\Apple Inc\CloudKit\iCloud Photos\MMCS has an amount of 145GB and counting.

Has anyone an idea what is going on?

 

Thanks a lot for any replies.

Udo

iCloud for PC 5.0, Windows 10

Posted on Nov 19, 2015 1:51 PM

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  • by martinkre,

    martinkre martinkre Dec 10, 2015 4:44 AM in response to ubuedel
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    Dec 10, 2015 4:44 AM in response to ubuedel

    Hi,

     

    I've installed iCloud 5.1 on a Windows 10 (64bits)

     

    I want to have Photos option enable on iCloud, but similarly to what ubuedel reported the

    C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Apple Inc\CloudKit\iCloud Photos\MMCS kept increasing in size in a download loop and only stopped when I disabled the option Photos entirely. The machine resources consumption can also be noticed (disk, CPU, network) by iCloud Photo Stream Downloader and iCloud Photo background process.

     

    I have added two prints to show what I mean. Please notice that files in the directory MMCS are grouped and have similar sizes with hours difference between groups, meaning when it finishes one group download it starts the next (the most recent group of files have smaller size as I unchecked the Photos option before it finishes).

     

    Thanks,

    Martin

    20151210MMCSdirprint.png20151210icloudconfigprint.png

  • by kjwathne,

    kjwathne kjwathne Jan 3, 2016 11:03 AM in response to ubuedel
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    Jan 3, 2016 11:03 AM in response to ubuedel

    I have the exact same problem. Cloudkit is suddenly using 202 GB of my 500 GB space. Just crazy. Have you found any solutions to this problem? Have you tried to delete the files in the folder? C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Apple Inc\CloudKit\iCloud Photos\MMCS - this is the folder that now is HUGE, and I do not want this to happen at all!

     

    Seems this problem started this week, taking new backups every single day and storing all the files in theis MMCS folder. Anyone that know what to do??

  • by iLuvgeek,

    iLuvgeek iLuvgeek Jan 13, 2016 3:43 AM in response to ubuedel
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    Jan 13, 2016 3:43 AM in response to ubuedel

    I just found this thread after discovering that AppData\Local\Apple Inc\CloudKit\iCloud Photos is using 274 GB of my C drive, which brought my computer to it's knees. Not only that, it is sucking the life out of my internet connection burning 15 Mb/s continuously and has used  400 GB of my 450 GB data cap on Shaw already this month.

     

    It wak also using 2.5 GB of ram when I killed it.

     

    I have had to turn it off until the problem is solved.

  • by wineloverck,

    wineloverck wineloverck Feb 2, 2016 5:36 PM in response to ubuedel
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    Feb 2, 2016 5:36 PM in response to ubuedel

    Exact same problem.  Would be great if an Apple person could respond.  Windows 10 with latest iCloud.

  • by jufineath,

    jufineath jufineath Feb 14, 2016 9:16 AM in response to ubuedel
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    Feb 14, 2016 9:16 AM in response to ubuedel

    Bump. Same issue. Windows 10, iCloud CloudKit photos filling. I think it may have to do with multi-minute videos.

  • by kmichalec,

    kmichalec kmichalec Feb 25, 2016 11:48 AM in response to jufineath
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    Feb 25, 2016 11:48 AM in response to jufineath

    Same thing here.  Over 248GB of my 500GB hard drive used in MMCS folder, causing my PC to run out of hard drive space.  I currently Only have 20GB of iCloud Photo's stored in iCloud, so how is it using 10x the space to support iCloud on the PC?

     

    What is going on here, Apple?  Can you please respond?

  • by drlegg,

    drlegg drlegg Feb 28, 2016 10:36 AM in response to ubuedel
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    Feb 28, 2016 10:36 AM in response to ubuedel

    Hi I have same problem.  Is it safe to just delete the files until a solution is found ?  I have seen a thread on another forum where they say  they deleted the biggest file without any problem.  I am wary as I don't know what the files are.

     

     

    Thanks

  • by esquiremh,

    esquiremh esquiremh Mar 16, 2016 10:25 AM in response to drlegg
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    Mar 16, 2016 10:25 AM in response to drlegg

    Same problem here.  Anyone find any resolve from Apple?  It's particularly difficult when you know your iCloud library is large, and you have a secondary drive to store it on, and you point the storage to go there under iCloud settings, and then this all still happens filling up the boot drive (which was the whole reason for putting it in the alternate location in the first place!)

  • by UserMichael,

    UserMichael UserMichael Mar 16, 2016 10:34 AM in response to ubuedel
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    Mar 16, 2016 10:34 AM in response to ubuedel

    Same issue here. I have about 50GBs of photos and iCloud filled up 200GB of hard drive space, bringing my computer to a crawl.  Destroyed my data cap of 350GB for the month too, as I tried logging out and back into the iCloud app to resolve, which cause it all to occur again.  Apple, please reply that you are looking into this.   This is on a PC running Windows 7, with the latest version of iCloud.

  • by andre_tho,

    andre_tho andre_tho Mar 28, 2016 5:14 AM in response to UserMichael
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    Mar 28, 2016 5:14 AM in response to UserMichael

    Same problem, this folder eating 70gb on my C: partition which is only 300gb. This is really disappointing that Apple can't give guidance on this problem.

  • by hamallu62,

    hamallu62 hamallu62 Apr 8, 2016 2:00 PM in response to andre_tho
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    Apr 8, 2016 2:00 PM in response to andre_tho

    same here help please using over 250 g of disk space

  • by andrewbwhite,

    andrewbwhite andrewbwhite Apr 19, 2016 1:26 PM in response to ubuedel
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    Apr 19, 2016 1:26 PM in response to ubuedel

    likewise - I am having the exact same issue but on Mac.

     

    My MMCS folder is filling up with massive tmp files and my internal hard drive runs out of space in about 10 mins, even if I delete 10GB to make space - these files just use that until it's also gone.

    My Photos library is several hundred GB - the whole point of having them in the Cloud is so they don't fill my HDD - what is going on?

  • by andre_tho,

    andre_tho andre_tho Apr 20, 2016 3:38 PM in response to andrewbwhite
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    Apr 20, 2016 3:38 PM in response to andrewbwhite

    I found a solution - I have stopped using iCloud Drive and started using Microsoft OneDrive - Apple just haven't done a god job of cloud based storage. With ICloud Drive everything still has to sit offline in a folder on your machine, but OneDrive lets you choose with tick boxes what you want to keep offline copies of and what you don't - I now just keep a copy of my work folder offline and everything else is in the cloud. Any changes made are immediately uploaded just like with iCloud Drive via the Windows 10 shell integration. It is also a lot lighter on system resources and has a iPhone/ipad app just like iCloud Drive so you won't notice a difference there. It can also integrate with the photos on your iPhone/ipad apparently but I haven't tried that. There are other cloud storage options better than iClound Drive if you don't like Microsoft - Dropbox for e.g., among others. iCloud Drive just isn't up to scratch.

  • by artem.w,

    artem.w artem.w May 7, 2016 7:17 AM in response to ubuedel
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    May 7, 2016 7:17 AM in response to ubuedel

    Same problem, this folder eating 100 GB on my "C". This is on a PC running Windows 7, with the latest version of iCloud. Just crazy.

    Apple, please reply that you are looking into this!!!

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