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Photos option not appearing in icloud settings (Mac)

Hi,

I am trying to clear space on my 2017 intel MacBook Pro (running Sierra). I do have a lot of photos tied to my icloud account (astonishingly around 1.5TB), which is taking up 64GB on this Mac.

I wanted to disable the option for icloud syncing so that I can clear this off my Mac.

I have read that there should be an option under system preferences > icloud > photos, however I am not seeing photos under this directory. I do not have enough space on my Mac to update to a newer OS.

Is there a potential reason for this/a workaround for clearing this space?

Can confirm that the logged in user has admin privileges- I'm not aware of any group restrictions for this user.

Many thanks.

Posted on Nov 10, 2023 10:52 AM

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TheSilverShadow Author

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Posted on Nov 16, 2023 6:23 AM

Solution was to load up the Photos application -> Preferences and the desired setting to disable iCloud was here.

I was able to delete the library off my Mac by locating the Photos Library folder and then moving to trash; so I have managed to clear up the 65GB.

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