iCloud Drive has 50 gb of documents - but I don't store documents in iCloud

Thanks for your reply. As I wrote in my initial post - there are 30 other apps which are shown; and I disabled 15 of them. Of those that remain - WhatsApp (which doesn't show on that list) is taking-up 6.9 gb which is fine. But that certainly doesn't account for 50 gb of space used.

I have a lot more than 30 apps on my Mac -- but only 30 show.

This is really a mystery and I know I'm not the only one experiencing this.

Appreciate any additional comments by you or anyone out there--especially if someone has had this issue and solved it.

Best regards,

Steve Schulte

Mon 11 Nov 2024

I was really hoping that a lot of people out there would reply. I can't be the only one with this issue. Be nice to hear from you even if you don't have a solution to this. Thanks, Steve Wednesday 13 November 2024

This basically tells me that no one really truly understands how this iCloud storage works. Just incredible (or incredibly complex!) -- Is there a way I can close this discussion --- there used to be a way to do that.

Steve on Saturday 16 November 2024

AlWeir, Thanks for your reply!!

I am not using iCloud for a backup of any data. OK for Photos and Contacts and iOS backups but not for backups of my data and info. For that I do regular SuperDuper! backups (and sometimes CCC backups as well); and also have SugarSync constantly running on my main Mac for backups.

What mystifies me is this "50 gb" of "documents" that is listed (today 51.2 gb). Even including WhatsApp I can't come up with more than 10 gb total - certainly not 50 gb. But while some apps are listed with the amount of space they consume (like WhatsApp - currently 7.7 gb) - others do not show the amount they use-- I expect because it's likely below 1 mb so it is not shown. So where did about 40 gb of my iCloud space go?

Appreciate any comments by you or really any one of the 8 billion people out there-- THANKS!

Steve on Saturday 16 November 2024

Interesting suggestion about turning-off iCloud BUT then after a few days when I turn it back on it will take 2 days to upload all my photos - in the meantime all my photos on my iPhone and iPad will be gone… For now I can live with an "unknown missing 50 gb" (actually only about 40 gb as WhatsApp is taking nearly 8 gb…) -- but it sure is a strange way that Apple sets-up iCloud. For the photos / contacts / apps like BusyCal and Notes -- just FANTASTIC - but to use as a repository for my key documents… and then duplicating data on the Mac anyway; and then this mystery with 25% of my 200 gb unidentified… I'll try to call Apple on this but in today's world getting a real live human being on the phone may be difficult if not impossible.

Thanks for any and all comments out there--

Best regards,

Steve Schulte

Sun 17 Nov 2024