I dont understand icloud
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- brandelec0
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- shapesalad0
My iCloud 5gb is full... ok go to finder, iCloud Drive - Can't see my photos and iPhone back up - which are the big ass files taking up all the 5gb iCloud space?
All I want to do is see all those files - especially the photos, and grab them off the iCloud. How to do that?
I Checked out Photos app on Mac - not entirely confidence which album is showing me the photos on my iCloud specifically.
I've got photos downloaded from iCloud it seems, from my iPhone. But those are now on my Mac... But! deleting one removes it from cloud and iPhone. Right...
Plus where are these photos in finder? ok, I find the file "Photos Library.photoslibrary". Show package contents > mess of sub folders in sub folders in sub folders with random names, eventually leading to some photos. Well done apple.
Ok in Photos app I can select a bunch of photos and drag them to a folder in finder.
But now I've got the photos I dragged into a folder on my Mac HD. I've got the same photo files buried in the "Photos Library.photoslibrary". I've got those photos also somewhere in my iCloud. And also on my iPhone. And in the iPhone backup.
Man this is all fucked up.
I want this:
Take photo on iPhone > photo kept on iPhone > photo sent to cloud, able to view this in iCloud Drive within finder. Open photo app > album called iCloud Drive. Album called fucking photos on this Mac > Ability to see the photos in finder that I see in Photos.app.
^ with all that, I can easily manage my iCloud space and make back ups.
- Need that google pixel with unlimited photo cloud storage...shapesalad
- remember that email (including attachments ) are also stored in that same 5GBGnash
- You have to think of iCloud as being similar to dropbox - in that ALL the files in your photo library are stored in iCloud.Gnash
- if you want to delete files from iCloud, just delete them on your local device. This deletes them from iCloud as well as all your other local devices.Gnash
- You can also just turn off syncing your photos to iCloud. You then just sync the pics on you phone to your computer as beforeGnash
- https://support.appl…Gnash
- Also, you can transfer the photos and videos that you don't want to store in iCloud to your computer...Gnash
- https://support.appl…Gnash
- ^ hmm....shapesalad