iCloud storage problem

I am agree, icloud security back up every thing from ur iphone ipad ipod etc.etc.. if u have mails with video files pictures attached everything will be backing up to icloud automatically and wireslesly what is the problem with some ppl that they want to have everything on their devices increasing iphone storage space and icloud storage, what happend if apple does not give us those free 5GB ? pls ppl save all ur files in ur computers or i a SDcard pluged to ur computer, that makes our devices not storage alot of data and decrease the storage space, because if u guys thinkig this, pictures from Photos app including videos, music savesd on music app and videos, bunch unusables apps that and more mails in ur inbox decrease the iphone storage plus icloud storage of 5 gb, thinking about ir.

Regards

it is true man, if u restore ur iphone ipad or ipod and after the restore you choice restore from a icloud back up everything was before the restore will downloading to ur device apps music videos sms mms mails last phone calls etc...etc... think about it

What does any of that have to do with this issue (which, in case you forgot, is Mail storage) not backups, not texts and certainly not photos.

Photos and Music do not affect your iCloud storage at all. Do some research, start a study group, there are others here who can join it!

Csound do not be very hardhead, everything is saved on ur device icloud backing up and saved in the icloud storage, go to icloud settings and you can see something like that all options are ON you can see that, means everything from ur device will be save and back up to icloud

PaulRichards...What email client are you using? iCloud? Gmail?

You can believe whatever you want. We're done.

"You can believe whatever you want. We're done."

The problem is that you're wrong and you keep insisting that you are right and you are giving bad advice here. Personally, I just think you are misreading this thread or do not understand iCloud backups.

Paul Richards4 wrote:

One big lump of immovable email backup on the cloud. 2.1 gb of it, which doesn't seem to reduce, or even change, even though I have deleted all my emails!

Before you said it was your email, now it's a backup.

Which is it, email, or backup?

Neither iCloud or Gmail are email clients, and OP is using Mail as the client and iCloud is his service provider.

iCloud only handles iCloud Mail. Not Gmail or any other system.

Ok read this one more time, any email client you use gmail hotmail yahoo icloud etc..etc.. that you had set it on ur mail app have the inbox with bunch of mails in all the boxes that you never delete from there, if your device automatically make a back up all the mails with attachments that was in the inbox of any email address get saved and backed into icloud but if u delete any of the emaill address you had before still all the info was there will be storage into icloud back up, GOT IT?

Ozzie1910 wrote:

Ok read this one more time, any email client you use gmail hotmail yahoo icloud etc..etc.. that you had set it on ur mail app have the inbox with bunch of mails in all the boxes that you never delete from there,

Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, none of these are stored in iCloud. Only iCloud Mail is stored there. Just like there is no iCloud mail storage at Hotmail or Gmail. They all store their own products

Have you tried either of these solutions:

1) Try moving your messages to your computer to free up iCloud space...

Moving your messages from iCloud to your computer can be useful when your iCloud mailbox is full or you want to reduce the amount of iCloud storage you're using.

Moving selected messages

Follow these steps to move messages from iCloud and store them on your computer instead.

In OS X Mail, choose Mailbox > New Mailbox.

Select On My Mac from the Location menu, enter a name for the new mailbox, and click OK.

Select your iCloud inbox from the list of mailboxes in the sidebar, then select the messages to move.

Drag the messages to the new mailbox, or choose Message > Move To > the new mailbox.

2) or Try deleting your messages to free up iCoud space...

Follow these steps to permanently delete messages from iCloud without keeping a copy on your computer.

Select the iCloud messages to delete, then choose Edit > Delete. The messages are moved to your Trash folder in iCloud.

Choose Mailbox > Erase Deleted Items to permanently delete the messages in the Trash folder.

Here’s what iCloud backs up:

Notice that Photo Streams, Music, Mail and Documents, (plus a lot of other things) are excluded

Paul Richards4 wrote:

I'm getting messages saying my iCloud storage is almost full.

So I went System Prefs > iCloud and it says I have 208.8 MB of 5 GB available.

But over 2 Gb of what I've used is Mail.

So I opened Mail on my Mac, selected a load of old email messages, (many with big attachments), and moved them to the trash. I then opened trash selected them again and hit the delete key, then I went Mailbox > Erase Deleted Items > In all accounts.

So they should be pretty well deleted!

I then went System Prefs > iCloud, and nothing has changed; I still have 208.8 MB available.

I went back into Mail, deleted a load of Sent messages (many with big attachments) and did the same.

Then I deleted some Junk mail (there wasn't much).

Then I opened Safari, went to www.iCloud.com - opened my Mail account and did the same again.

SO after all this I still have 208.8MB of storage available.

Can someone explain how I free up some space by reducing Mail stoirage please?

Thanks,

Paul

I'm going to suggest that you start a new thread away from all this noise.

Please be clear whether or not you are referring to the 2.1GB email store or the 2.6GB backup store, for the benefit of clarity.