jusvuori
Level 1
(18 points)
Q: icloud Drive size incorrect
I just installed macOS Sierra and synched my Documents and Desktop to iCloud. That is a cool feature but I have one problem.
In the iCloud settings, the green 'Documents' bar shows that I have 3.22 GB of documents. When I open the iCloud Drive, I see there two folders: Desktop and Documents. And these two are the only folders there.
In my hard drive, the size of Desktop is 1.9 MB and the Size of Documents is 1.65 GB. I even chose not to 'Optimize Mac storage' and hence I assume that the size of the folders should be identical on my local hard drive and in iCloud Drive.
Any ideas why the iCloud thinks there is almost two times more data than what I have uploaded to iCloud? This is frustrating since I seem to have no means to free that storage space and now my iCloud is constantly giving a warning that it is nearly full.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1), null
jusvuori
Level 1
(18 points)
I managed to solve this. Well, I'm not exactly sure what happened when I did this...
I went to System Preferences -> iCloud -> iCould Drive Options and there I deselected "System Preferences.app", which is at the bottom of the list. That decreased the size of Documents in iCloud by 1.6 GB.
