Why does my icloud drive take up space on my mac book? Isnt that the point of paying for 2T of cloud storage is so that my stuff does not take up space on the hard drive of my devices?

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Why does my icloud drive take up space on my mac book? Isnt that the point of paying for 2T of cloud storage is so that my stuff does not take up space on the hard drive of my devices?

MacBook Air 11″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Apr 14, 2023 1:39 AM

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muguy

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Apr 14, 2023 4:00 AM in response to AlexisToppFoxXx

iCloud is primarily a synchronization service, not offline storage. You can elect to optimize files so that your least accessed files are removed to online only should space become necessary or your Mac.

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Why does my icloud drive take up space on my mac book? Isnt that the point of paying for 2T of cloud storage is so that my stuff does not take up space on the hard drive of my devices?

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