Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Hi -
I provide computer support to others.
I have a client who is exhausting his disk space.
It turns out it it the icloud staging folder..
His icloud folder is 29.8 GB.
The icloud 'staging' folder is about 400 GB.
This folder is located at c:\users\username\appdata\local\apple inc\iCloudDrive\Staging.
Can anyone suggest a solution? I need to recover some space and short of just whacking this, I'd like to fix it.
Thanks.
Bill
icloud-OTHER, Windows 7
I found online details to create a batch file that will delete all staging files and folders. I used windows scheduler to empty the directory every night at midnight . Name of batch file DelStaging.bat. Worked both on windows 7 and windows 10.
contents of DelStaging.bat
:substitute [USERNAME] with your username as listed in c:\users
:use windows scheduler to run batch file to delete all staging files and folders once a day
set folder="C:\users\[USERNAME]\appdata\local\apple inc\iclouddrive\staging"
cd /d %folder%
for /F "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b') do (rmdir "%%i" /s/q || del "%%i" /s/q)
I found online details to create a batch file that will delete all staging files and folders. I used windows scheduler to empty the directory every night at midnight . Name of batch file DelStaging.bat. Worked both on windows 7 and windows 10.
contents of DelStaging.bat
:substitute [USERNAME] with your username as listed in c:\users
:use windows scheduler to run batch file to delete all staging files and folders once a day
set folder="C:\users\[USERNAME]\appdata\local\apple inc\iclouddrive\staging"
cd /d %folder%
for /F "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b') do (rmdir "%%i" /s/q || del "%%i" /s/q)
great batch script. There is no reason users should have to do this however, just because I own a windows computer and Macs doesn't mean I deserve a supbar experience on windows using apple software. Amazing that it isn't fixed yet.
Did you ever get a solution to this? I deleted the bin files. So far no issue. But it would be nice to get a fix.
Same Issue here. Hits 80GB daily. I have been just deleting everyday. So far no problems. But I really need a solution.
Staging Folder is HUGE!
