Do Photostreams from others consume hard drive space on OSX 8 ?

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Do Photostreams from others consume hard drive space on OSX 8 ?

I have a MacBook Pro with an SSD drive, so drive space is limited. I am running OSX 10.8.4. I have a few Photo Stream subscritions from others than I have subscribed to. One of them has about 400 photos in it. I was wonderfing if these are taking up hard drive space on my machine? Is there a way to check to see how much space it is usng up?

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Aug 18, 2013 9:06 AM

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Old Toad

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Aug 18, 2013 9:48 AM in response to dantheman2011

No. The photos are stored on the iCloud servers and streamed to your subscription.

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Aug 18, 2013 10:02 AM in response to Old Toad

Thank you, that's good to know that the photos are not downloaded locally on the machine, taking up drive space. This sounds different than with my IOS devices, since I am able to see the photos even with a connection to the Internet.

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