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iCloud Drive

why does iCloud Drive take up so much space on my hard drive?

MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Jun 26, 2019 10:27 AM

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Posted on Jun 26, 2019 10:55 AM

iCloud is a syncing system, not an external storage system. Documents in iCloud Drive are also on your computer.

If you don't want them on your hard drive, you need a different cloud based solution such as Dropbox, OneDrive, or Flicker.

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