Is the a way not to store photos on my MacBook Air at all? I have them set to store in iCloud, but it's still taking up almost 50 G and I only have 120 to work with. I'm constantly out of space and that's the only thing I see that I could change.
Which year MacBook Air do you have? Which macOS are you running? Can you also uncheck SHARED ALBUMS?
Also, Click on the Apple icon at the top left of your Menu Bar (Top) ➔ About this Mac ➔ Storage (Allow a few seconds for information to populate) ➔ Manage: Here, see how much space photos is taking up as storage space on your Mac (Left Column).
Axel F.
Which year MacBook Air do you have? Which macOS are you running? Can you also uncheck SHARED ALBUMS?
Also, Click on the Apple icon at the top left of your Menu Bar (Top) ➔ About this Mac ➔ Storage (Allow a few seconds for information to populate) ➔ Manage: Here, see how much space photos is taking up as storage space on your Mac (Left Column).
Axel F.
As you have learned, iCloud is a synch service and not a data archiving service where. The purpose of iCloud is to synch data across all your devices. Having said that, you can free up some space on your MacBook Air by choosing optimize photos.
Open Photos app ➔ Preferences ➔ iCloud tab ➔ Put a checkmark in OPTIMIZE PHOTOS.
This should free up most of the 50GB storage space that photos is taking up on your MacBook AIr. Once you activate this function then high and original resolution photos will be stored on iCloud and low resolution photo representatives will be stored on your MacBook Air. This will generate space on the MacBook Air. When you display a photo on your MacBook Air the the high resolution equivalent will be downloaded from iCloud and displayed on the screen.
Axel F.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I did just uncheck the "shared albums" box and that fixed it. I don't know why I haven't tried that before. This has been a problem for ages. I'm now down to 283 bytes vs nearly 50G. Seriously, thank you.
Thanks for your response. I actually do already have that selected, which is why I’m confused about why it’s still taking up so much space. 😕
You are MOST WELCOME. Glad that it all worked well for you!
Axel F.
Free up space by removing photos??
