Wasting Disk Space

Delvin127562 wrote:

I just have no words, Apple...

You have such a huge and OLD (this topic was started more than 2(!!!) years ago) problem and STIL HAVE NO SOLUTION?!

Are you kidding me?!

As has been explained, repeatedly, Apple is neither reading nor replying in this thread. If you would like help from Apple on this issue, use the Contact Support link in the upper right of every page of these forums.

Hi,

Happened to me on win7.

Installed win10 on a virtualbox, and only then I finally managed to download my iOS devices photos (2 out of 3 devices so far, ~100GB each).

seems to stall for the third device so far...

Best.

At last I solved my problem. I have macbook pro, where I installed Parallels Desktop and install MacOS on it. After I login with my wife's account and download all photos to local storage and after it with Onedrive app I uploaded them to my cloud storage.

The problem I found with the OneDrive and DropBox is that if you abandon the Photos.app you have no real good Photo Viewer on Mac. You have to almost buy a third party Photo Viewer or maybe you can move the Photos database to OneDrive....ok different subject....

But there are too many other issues when you leave the iCloud eco-system....

It is not so easy as it seems...

I am system administrator and I have lots of VMWare servers, that we're using as hosts for virtualization. I tried to install MacOS on them and no luck, too many errors and no exact variant to solve them. So for me was easier to install MacOS using parallels on my work macbook.

3/4/2018.

Apples solution: delete the iCloud PC program and redownload it. Your pictures are safe.

Hi Ubuedel and everyone since then, I’ve read them all. I called Apple yesterday and the solution next to the date above was what they gave me.

I recovered my 140G or so of hoarded memory.

I reset my uplink and downlink iCloud folders to an external drive.

I downloaded my pictures last night and I’ll need to check the results later today. Don’t have time yet.

1. The first call to Apple support, the assistant pointed the finger to Windows and washed his hands of the problem. As I asked to speak to someone with more experience - politely, I think - he hung up on me. He had my name and callback number, but he never called back. I didn’t expect it was an accidental hang up, so I called back immediately (during all the second call there were no call waiting notices in my phone).

2. The second assistant was energetic and enthusiastic and knowledgeable. She suggested that the iCloud program could have been corrupted somehow and caused this. Though she statetwd she did not have any expertise with Windows. She recommended that we remove iCloud and download it. I told her I was worried that that might delete my photos and videos on iCloud, Dive etc. She assured me that it will not and that the context was safely in iCloud. She first had me show here where the folder was that was auto filing up. I had previously, in my attempts to find out. What was wrong, I un-hid these folders and I quickly found it and showed it to her. I allowed a visual screen “view” of my PC for her help. She assured me she could only see and. It click or write on my PC. So with her red ppointer she and I communicated on the folders and steps to take. I let her guide me through the program removal and download and upload, even though I’ve done this with other programs, I wanted her assistance as much as possible to avoid another call back to them. We ended our chat call as I now waited by myself for the program to load up. I took care of it and checked on the space and downloaded my pictures.

3. I saw a YouTube video during this time that verified my frustration, that the new iCloud could not allow you to download everything at once. The Control All command does not work there. Highlighting the first folder holding down the Shift key and selecting the last folder does not work either to select the “range of folders” or pictures. But you get around this by going to the option on the iCloud icon right click and get to the download all to download this (I don’t reall it may be the download pictures option, I’m not at my PC). The resulting small pop up window first shows that you can click in the word All, and that highlights the folders underneath it for each of the years that your contents were taken in. Or here, you can click on individual folders, each for a year, to download its contents. Each folder has a number of files within that year

That is where I left it last night, I selected all and I saw that my new location (iCloud download in external drive) slowly was being populated. And the C drive was not being populated where the default was. I had made a new default on this external drive.

The YouTube video also said what I experienced, there is no progress bar to show download progress. Bad. A lot of simple enhancements would make this experience enjoyable - possibly in the Old Apple management of Steve Jobs, possibly. Most likely Apple doesn’t care much for us Windows users her (but our work has us going to PCs). This is all at home for personal use for me.

I hope that my pictures downloaded correctly and that I stopped cramming the “UNSTOPABLE BLOB” of files on my C drive and now stopped it in my new external he location. You youngsters. :-) See the Steve McQueen movie “The Blob”. Loved it. While there, see Damm Yankees, another favorite of mine. Say hi to Lola for me. :-)

So again to remind us:

4. This forum is not read nor monitored by Apple,, as other gracious repliers have said, and we must call Apple support, in the upper right corner of this blog for help.

5. I appreciate the guidance of many of our bloggers who helped me try things and get to this point.

6. Delete iCloud, because it could have been corrupted somehow since your initial use and redownload and load it again. Our pictures are safe in the iCloud during this time. I recommend you relocating your download and upload folders to an external drive.

7. After I get all the downloads, I will back this new set of files again in a secondary extwrnal drive, thigh I think I have them already backup before uploading them into iCloud, I will referido.

My detailed write up is only to hopefully help others and to lessen the time on this troubling effort.

Sincerely,

Redwood222

LA, California

Ben855,

Sorry to hear that what helped me didn’t not help you. Can you also do what I did? Set the location of your new downloaded iCloud folder in an external drive.

This allowed the MMCS files that had eaten all my memory to be removed from the PC and if they were to grow, they would grow on my external drive. I figured this would leave my PC usable with space. It did work that way.

I believe I restarted my PC after installing. So far since I posted and did this, I’ve left my PC run overnight downloading my pictures onto the external drive. No large MMCS files on my PC nor inbox my external drive.

But, one unexpected thing happened. I noticed that after on night of leaving my PC on, all the disk was filled up! I didn’t see MMCS files in the PC. I haven’t had time to investigate that. But after restarting my PC after that, the full disc C was NOT full and had the 157 Gigs free, or what ever it was exactly (don’t remember). I’ve been occupied with other things, but I think this happened to me on two separate different pc-running-over-night situations. And the full disc C was cleared up after restarting my PC. Sorry, I haven’t had a chance to investigate where the files grew to fill up all my memory space.

I started to use a Fan program that maps pictorially where your data is on your PC folders, but I stopped half way due to lack of time. It shows you in concentric rings folder sizes -as you have onion layers of folders. This is how I first found out where the hidden folder path was with MMCS files. It will be anle to see which folder is huge and unexpected.

Hope someone else may have a permanent solution.

Apple does not monitor this site for problems. Call them yourself for over the phone talks. Thanks.

I was not able to move the folder to an external drive (I don't have a big enough one) but after uninstalling iCloud, I was able to delete the folder C:\Users\username\Appdata\Local rec laming my space without any problems. I will try reinstalling iCloud when I have more time.

Okay Ben855. I understand.

I had a thought for you. Before your c drive becomes completely filled up after you load the iCloud program, download a selected year or two from iCloud and immediately put those into a different cloud saving service? Hopefully you can download and repulías into the cloud before your disk becomes full. Repeat until you have all your pictures downloaded and stored elsewhere that is not Apple. When your disk fills up, or before it fills up), you can delete the offending MMCS files from that folder until you transferred all your pictures and videos into a different cloud server.

I am downloading my pictures so that I not have problems with iCloud. I already have backed up what I have, most of them, into an external drive. I furthermore backed up that external drive (that is now my main picture and music drive) into a dedicated backup drive. I believe there should always be a prime set and a backup set on different drives - So I don’t depend on Apple. I am thinking I may use a separate photograph cloud service to backup my pictures for a second time - and get a way from Apple’s iCloud altogether.

Best of success.

Thank you for the advice. I'm going forward by keeping a copy of the entire library on an old mac mini I have and am downloading a select few from iCloud photos onto my PC via iCloud on line. I plan on keeping my photos on iCloud with a backup on the mac, which interfaces much nicer with iCloud.

One more point of information Incase this helps someone:

I STILL get MMCS files uncontrollably filling up my C drive even though my iCloud pictures were reset to only be on an external drive.

FYI. Details: I mentioned I deleted and reloaded iCloud and reset the MMCS folders on a very large external drive and that gave my C drive space back, about 150 GB. I didn’t have any memory hogging in my external drive. I mentioned that I didn’t have MMCS problems on my c drive and that it was weird that my PC memory was getting smaller and by restarting it, my 130 GB or so of free memory came back.

My point: iexamibed my c drive and the MMCS folder continues to fill up! I don’t know why. I am not downloading pictures. O also believe that i correctly reassigned the mmcs folder to my external drive and correctly downloaded pictures on there.

So, I don’t have the software programming skills to dig deep with these unfamiliar file names etc. I can only do superficial checks with my engineering skills.

Maybe someone out there can and understands this point and may be idiot from this.

I have Windows 7 fully updated patches but I use an iPhone.

I will therefore download all my pictures close my Apple ICloud Memory and look at storing elsewere on the cloud. In the meantime I will make sure that my external drive has all my iCloud master set and a backup set on a different drive. I never had this problem prior to using iCloud for storage. Good luck to all of us.

I had the same problem on my Windows 10 x64 machine and iCloud 7.3 version. I've suddenly run out my 250 GB HDD space when was downloading 21 GB of photos!

CloudKit\iCloud Photos\MMCS folder's size was 135 GB about.

To solve it I just did a restart and after the restart all these fieles were automaticly wiped by iCloud Drive. Seems some kind of a bug

My solution using windows 7 was this...

I uninstalled "iCloud" in prgrams and feature then i went to c: users, app-data, local, apple inc and finally deleted the culprit "cloudkit" file which contained 330gb I then saw my HD go from red to free space...alas!

Hi,

I've installed iCloud 5.1 on a Windows 10 (64bits)

I want to have Photos option enable on iCloud, but similarly to what ubuedel reported the

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Apple Inc\CloudKit\iCloud Photos\MMCS kept increasing in size in a download loop and only stopped when I disabled the option Photos entirely. The machine resources consumption can also be noticed (disk, CPU, network) by iCloud Photo Stream Downloader and iCloud Photo background process.

I have added two prints to show what I mean. Please notice that files in the directory MMCS are grouped and have similar sizes with hours difference between groups, meaning when it finishes one group download it starts the next (the most recent group of files have smaller size as I unchecked the Photos option before it finishes).

Thanks,

Martin

I have the exact same problem. Cloudkit is suddenly using 202 GB of my 500 GB space. Just crazy. Have you found any solutions to this problem? Have you tried to delete the files in the folder? C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Apple Inc\CloudKit\iCloud Photos\MMCS - this is the folder that now is HUGE, and I do not want this to happen at all!

Seems this problem started this week, taking new backups every single day and storing all the files in theis MMCS folder. Anyone that know what to do??