System date using over 300GB(CloudKIT)

~library/Caches/CloudKit folder increases until storage becomes full

How can we fix this?

When turning off iCloud Drive-Storage appears normal

When turning iCloud Drive back on 300-400GB taking up by System

Mac mini M-1 2020 12.3.1

Mac mini 2018 or later

Posted on Apr 14, 2022 7:34 AM

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Owl-53

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Apr 14, 2022 7:47 AM in response to Lisa3843

If the user has purchased Addition storage on iCloud and this computer is Syncing to iCloud - generally whatever is on iCloud will download that content and have aLocal Version of that data on the Internal Drive.

That is, when there is No Internet Connection available, the user can continue to make changes to that content.

Once Internet Connection is established, the changes will be uploaded to iCloud.

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System date using over 300GB(CloudKIT)

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