OSX Yosemite 10.10.4 and iCloud Drive

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OSX Yosemite 10.10.4 and iCloud Drive

Not sure if this happened under the previous incarnations of OS X but i find that there is now an addition of iCloud Drive when opening Finder.

I wouldn't object if this was only showing my cloud storage but when i checked it also eats into my hard drive storage.

I copied all my files (photo, music etc) on my iMac to the iCloud Drive but then i opened my Macbook Air.

It took for ever to load and was very slow and to my amazement the files in iCloud Drive were being downloaded to my Air (with only 64Gb storage it very soon had nothing left).

Turning off iCloud on the Air resolve ihe problem and cleared the downloaded files, eventually, but if means I cannot access my files in the cloud on my Air

Is there anything I can do to resolve the problem? I have a sneaky feeling that iTunes may do the same thing so am reluctant to try opening that as well.

I was expecting to just see all the files as I do on my iPad not for them to be downloaded to the Air.

Anyone have any ideas?

Posted on Jul 24, 2015 12:30 PM

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Kappy

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Jul 24, 2015 12:34 PM in response to motormad48

iCloud Drive FAQ

Get help using iCloud Drive

Set up iCloud Drive on all of your devices

Using iWork with iCloud Drive

OS X Yosemite- What is iCloud Drive?

OS X Yosemite- Store documents with iCloud Drive

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motormad48 Author

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Jul 25, 2015 2:13 PM in response to Kappy

Thanks for the prompt response. I have set up my iMac as per the instructions and the iMac and my iPad & iPhone are working As anticipated.

The problem is my MacBook Air which insists on down loading the 80Gb stored on the icloud Drive but as I said with a HDD capacity of 64gb it's impossible.

if I turn of the iCloud Drive on my Air I then cannot see my files on the cloud!

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Kappy

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Jul 25, 2015 2:20 PM in response to motormad48

I'm afraid there isn't much you can do given the size of the computer's SSD. I can only suggest that you might try connecting an external drive and relocating the folder in which the iCloud Drive stores data to the external drive. You can then replace the folder on the SSD with an alias link to the relocated folder. However, this means the external drive must always be connected to the MBA.

The only alternative is, obviously, to remove most of what you are storing on the iCloud Drive. I only store the bare essentials on mine which uses less than 1 GB. My iCloud Drive is the 5 GB free limit.

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