iCloud Drive
why does iCloud Drive take up so much space on my hard drive?
MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.14
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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.
