Icloud on windows and disk space management

Hello boxL,

Thanks for posting in Apple Support Communities!

We see that you are wondering how to manage the storage on your PC since your photos are taking up a lot of space. You also note that you’re using iCloud Photos as well. We’d be happy to help you!

Set up and use iCloud Photos - Apple Support -- As you can see from this section of the article, if you delete a photo from iCloud on one device, it deletes them on all of them. To delete the photos and videos taking up space on your Windows PC, turn iCloud Photos off in iCloud for Windows. Be aware that if you turn it back on, iCloud will start syncing the photos and videos it holds back to your PC.

Feel free to get back to us with any questions or problems you may have.

Take care.

boxL,

Thanks for the follow up!

You can follow the steps in Manage your iCloud storage to manage the storage for iCloud Drive specifically.

Keep in mind that iCloud helps with storage space but also mirrors your device,

so it does not store the whole file on iCloud and deleting content from a device will delete it off of iCloud also.

Cheers!

boxL,

iCloud is more intended for syncing and data retrieval when it comes to computers.

We'd recommend another service to store the documents apart from your PC or an external HD.

Cheers!