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Does using iCloud drive use up storage on your actual computer?
I have an iMac desktop thats synced with a macbook pro and an iPhone using the same iCloud/apple ID.
Basically, I don't want to fill my macbook up with a lot of files so I want to know if putting things on iCloud drive keeps them exclusively stored in the cloud and off the hard drive.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)
iCloud Drive keeps a local copy of everything on each computer connected to iCloud Drive. The files are stored in Library > Mobile Documents (that will look the same as the folder you can see by adding iCloud Drive to the Finder sidebar via Finder Preferences). One workaround would be to not turn on iCloud Drive in Apple Menu > System Preferences > iCloud and then manually upload/download files to the iCloud Drive app at https://www.icloud.com/ using your internet browser
do i not really need that anti virus program?
i mean, when i got the program it found 2 trojans.
No, you don't. The "anti-virus" business model was a consequence on Windows' traditional vulnerability to viruses. Even Microsoft Windows is not as vulnerable to viruses as it once was. The multi-billion dollar "anti-virus" business is becoming just as irrelevant, a fact Symantec's own information security officer admitted some time ago. You can expect them and their sycophantic defenders to become increasingly shrill as it suffers its inevitable death throes. Some continue to do so even on this site.
To learn how to protect your Mac please read Effective defenses against malware and other threats.
Adware has emerged as an increasing threat to your Internet activity, but compared to true computer viruses (of which there are exactly none for OS X) adware is a mere inconvenience. Besides, you have to devote some effort into installing adware. To learn how to recognize adware so that you can avoid being deceived into installing it, please read How to install adware. Even if you were to do so in spite of all the roadblocks OS X presents in an effort to warn you about its consequences, it's easily removed.
alsim88 wrote:
do i not really need that anti virus program?
i mean, when i got the program it found 2 trojans.
If a second opinion would help, uninstall Norton/Symantec.
hahahahah alright i'll uninstall it.
however, when i ran it a few weeks ago it did locate 2 trojans. not sure what that was about. and several years back i did have some music disappear on me, thought it may be some virus type work. never discovered the culprit but artists A through D in my iTunes vanished. No i didn't delete them or move them. I tried doing a spotlight search and they were all gone. never to be found again.
There is no known Mac malware that will selectively delete music files. Without knowing exactly what Norton identified a definitive explanation for your missing music is not possible, but it is more than likely Norton found Windows trojans that can have no effect on a Mac. They are extremely common.
A more important concern than pursuing the mythical Mac "virus" is to implement a reliable backup strategy, as I wrote earlier. That would easily enable you to recover files that become lost for whatever reason. Without a backup, irrecoverable data loss is 100% certain to occur... eventually.
i definitely do need to do that. I have an external drive that I copied and pasted all my photos and music onto and do so periodically. I was thinking about doing a time machine thing but that external doesn't have enough memory for that I'm told.
and i really cant blame any specific virus/trojan/malware but it was a bizarre issue. it actually recently happened as well but with less music. i opened iTunes and i had no problems. a few weeks later i went back on again and a few songs were not located by iTunes. a few years ago, however, it was about 1000 songs that mysteriously disappeared. I called apple support and they were shocked too. and oddly enough, all 500 Gigs of my hard drive were full. The apple guy told me to download this app which shows me where most of my hard drive memory is going and we found 400 gigs of millions of 1-2 KB files. somehow my hard drive was full of them. deleted them all and freed up my memory but music was never recovered
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