iCloud Drive taking massive amount of space on my Mac

Question

Level 1

10 points

iCloud Drive taking massive amount of space on my Mac

I am on the free iCloud tier, with 5 GB of storage. macOS Finder shows that my iCloud Drive occupies around 600 MB, which is expected.

However, according to the System Information panel, iCloud Drive is taking over 40 GB of storage! I don't even have that much free space available in my iCloud. Why is this?

MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Apr 7, 2019 5:21 PM

Reply

Answer 1

Top-ranking reply

flight297 Author

Level 1

10 points

Apr 9, 2019 8:24 PM in response to flight297

It appears that this problem has been solved. These are the steps I took to fix it:

I updated my macOS to the latest version (10.14.4).
The disk space was still high (but now in System, not iCloud Drive) , but I enabled the setting in Finder to "Calculate Disk Space for All Files", which seems to have corrected the issue. It seems as if Finder incorrectly calculates the disk space, and requires you to go back and manually enable the setting to recalculate the disk space to fix things up.

Reply

iCloud Drive taking massive amount of space on my Mac

Similar questions