Messages disconnected, but all the attachments are still taking up 2GB of space

art_in_motion wrote:

Hi, I've disconnected Messages from my laptop because I'm trying to conserve space. But when I look at Storage I see that all the attachments from Messages remain on this laptop. I want to delete them, but only from this laptop, not completely in iCloud.

Does anyone have knowledge about this?

Thank you, Steve

On the Mac from

>System Preferences>AppleID>iCloud uncheck Messages this will not sync your actions across devices

or

Sign out of Messages / disable on your Mac

Change iMessage preferences in Messages on Mac - Apple Support

Set up Messages on Mac - Apple Support

Messages User Guide for Mac - Apple Support

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