I have a tough one. My wife passed away years ago and I can login to her apple account but I don't see how and where she is using 150 GB. I am positive it's photos and videos but how do I get to it? Her old macbook air no longer works... I am sure I have all the media backed up but I would like to free up the storage space in our family plan for me and the kids.
First and foremost I am so sorry for your loss @DorianoPaisanoCarta! Prayers be with you and your family. The easiest way I can think of is to log into iCloud.com with her Apple ID/iCloud Account. When you do that, click on the little profile picture in the top right and choose "iCloud Settings" Then across the top you should see "Your iCloud Storage". When you click that you should be able to see a break down of all data being used and where. Below is another Apple Website that you could log in to and download all the content to make sure it's all backed up. privacy.apple.com/account I hope that helps! Thank you for your continued support! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please support my channel, by clicking THANKS below, or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Joel my computer has max the utility disk where system files are. Can I extend this drive or how can I get the external programs transfer from your Mac to a bigger external? Mac told me that I had to delete some of my program files. I really would like to keep them in that place. I check and I use all the programs that are there.
Hi @SensoryEcstasy! It's called "Stacks". It's built into the Mac Operating System If you "Right Click" on the empty portion of the Desktop, you should see if from the menu. THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
Hi Joel! I’ve been following you for some year or so, due to your informative and very clear content. I stll do have some doubts, even after revisiting some of yr vids…. maybe my fault…I’m at 80, but still with some neurons alive… So, some statements and a plan, for, say, your approval. Hope will help many others… 1-I do not have Mac, but Notebook with Windows 11 2- I do have iPhone XR 128G 3- I do have iCloud storage of 50G and used 30G 4- My iCloud photos is NOT turned on on iPhone, and I do not know since when… 5- My photo library on iPhone has 6,700 photos 6- My WhatsApp is NOT turned on on my iCloud…I do have 8,000 family photos residing inside the iPhone on various WhatsApp groups…I hope 7- I have an empty SSD Sandisk of 1TB waiting to be an iCloud backup, as a FIRST thing…before anything else I want to free te iCloud…downloading hi res photos and vids… 7A- Which format should I use on the SSD (exFAT..??) 8- Next I will turn on the iPhone the iCloud backup and the WhatsApp photos iCloud….both the photo library and the WhatsApp pictures will go to the Cloud….it may take some time…maybe days, correct?!? 9- Then, after assuring the new library is upped completelly, I will repeat the iCloud downloading into the SSD… 10- At this time my ICloud will be empty, as well as most of my iPhone memory What is your take on this?!? Will it work? Any hint? Warmest Regards
My daughter has too many photos on her iPhone and can't update the iOS. Do u have a video on what to do and to minimize photo deletes. I have seen many of your uploads but, still don't know what to do.
My M1 MacBook Pro is still on Big Sur and won't let me upgrade to the latest OS saying it doesn't have enough space. Only have around 15GB available on the 250GB SSD. Wish I had bought a MacBook with a bigger SSD but didn't want to pay the Apple premium price for it. Anyway, I'm constantly deleting things I don't need for more space but still can't make enough room. So frustrating.
I appreciate you and your kind words @Notitoforget! Hope all is well in Ireland! That is certainly on my bucket list of locations to visit! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Hi Joel, thank you for your video. It was very informative. I have a 1 terabyte hard drive on both my phone and my Mac book pro. Do I really need to pay $10/mo for iCloud? Can I just back up my phone to my laptop to synchronize photos? I have about 40K photos. I still have lots of room on my phone and laptop. What do you think?
Could you do a video on how to export a portion of your iPhotos library in the case of maxing out the 2 TB as I don't want to upgrade to Apple One. My thought is to create a new filtered album (for example Before 2016), export the photos to an external drive. Then create a new offline library - import the photos you exported - not connected through icloud. Then open the original library - and delete the photos prior to 2016. So everything recent would still be uploaded and synced. It would just not be storing the pictures prior to 2016 in the Apple's icloud. You could use another cloud service for the older photos / videos. If there's another better way to do this - would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks for all the videos too - Very informative!
I won't argue with that @The Field Workshop! Internet unfortunately is a necessity, and even better when it's actually fast internet. Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Thank you for once again doing such an informative video & taking things in steps like that! I know more now than before about this, but I guess I won’t get anywhere if I don’t start having some kind of system on decluttering etc 🙈 I’m just overwhelmed now since I haven’t had a good system to do that before so I’m having sooooo many files to go through. Do you have any recommendations on how to not get defeated even before starting the process? Another thing I’ve thought about that would really help if you wanted to try to answer: when going through my photos/videos (that’s the thing that takes up most space for me), could I then log into iCloud on my Macbook & go through all my different folders & pictures & delete those I don’t want anymore & then have the same changes occur on my iPhone? I’m having iCloud turned on both on my Macbook & iPhone. If that’s the case I may feel like it’s a bit easier to go through it all than to do it on my phone 🙈
I do find it confusing that my Mac’s drive space usage shows different amount for each user. Shouldn’t it all be the same. I also wish there was a way to optimize photos for different users who each of the same photos on their user part of the drive. For example I have our wedding photos and my wife has out wedding photos and that essentially has double the same photos on our hard drive.
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I have a tough one. My wife passed away years ago and I can login to her apple account but I don't see how and where she is using 150 GB. I am positive it's photos and videos but how do I get to it? Her old macbook air no longer works... I am sure I have all the media backed up but I would like to free up the storage space in our family plan for me and the kids.
First and foremost I am so sorry for your loss @DorianoPaisanoCarta! Prayers be with you and your family.
The easiest way I can think of is to log into iCloud.com with her Apple ID/iCloud Account. When you do that, click on the little profile picture in the top right and choose "iCloud Settings"
Then across the top you should see "Your iCloud Storage". When you click that you should be able to see a break down of all data being used and where.
Below is another Apple Website that you could log in to and download all the content to make sure it's all backed up.
privacy.apple.com/account
I hope that helps! Thank you for your continued support!
If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please support my channel, by clicking THANKS below, or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you!
It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Joel my computer has max the utility disk where system files are. Can I extend this drive or how can I get the external programs transfer from your Mac to a bigger external? Mac told me that I had to delete some of my program files. I really would like to keep them in that place. I check and I use all the programs that are there.
What are you using to do the stack of the items on the desktop at 20:00?!
Hi @SensoryEcstasy!
It's called "Stacks". It's built into the Mac Operating System
If you "Right Click" on the empty portion of the Desktop, you should see if from the menu.
THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know!
If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!
Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
Hi Joel!
I’ve been following you for some year or so, due to your informative and very clear content.
I stll do have some doubts, even after revisiting some of yr vids…. maybe my fault…I’m at 80, but still with some neurons alive…
So, some statements and a plan, for, say, your approval. Hope will help many others…
1-I do not have Mac, but Notebook with Windows 11
2- I do have iPhone XR 128G
3- I do have iCloud storage of 50G and used 30G
4- My iCloud photos is NOT turned on on iPhone, and I do not know since when…
5- My photo library on iPhone has 6,700 photos
6- My WhatsApp is NOT turned on on my iCloud…I do have 8,000 family photos residing inside the iPhone on various WhatsApp groups…I hope
7- I have an empty SSD Sandisk of 1TB waiting to be an iCloud backup, as a FIRST thing…before anything else I want to free te iCloud…downloading hi res photos and vids…
7A- Which format should I use on the SSD (exFAT..??)
8- Next I will turn on the iPhone the iCloud backup and the WhatsApp photos iCloud….both the photo library and the WhatsApp pictures will go to the Cloud….it may take some time…maybe days, correct?!?
9- Then, after assuring the new library is upped completelly, I will repeat the iCloud downloading into the SSD…
10- At this time my ICloud will be empty, as well as most of my iPhone memory
What is your take on this?!?
Will it work?
Any hint?
Warmest Regards
I have a problem 'n Roblox and we thought the problem Is Storage do u think 't 's true I have only 2 GB left
My daughter has too many photos on her iPhone and can't update the iOS. Do u have a video on what to do and to minimize photo deletes. I have seen many of your uploads but, still don't know what to do.
My M1 MacBook Pro is still on Big Sur and won't let me upgrade to the latest OS saying it doesn't have enough space. Only have around 15GB available on the 250GB SSD. Wish I had bought a MacBook with a bigger SSD but didn't want to pay the Apple premium price for it. Anyway, I'm constantly deleting things I don't need for more space but still can't make enough room. So frustrating.
Hi Joel, As always very informative in an understanding way Cheers from Ireland
I appreciate you and your kind words @Notitoforget!
Hope all is well in Ireland! That is certainly on my bucket list of locations to visit!
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Hi Joel, thank you for your video. It was very informative. I have a 1 terabyte hard drive on both my phone and my Mac book pro. Do I really need to pay $10/mo for iCloud? Can I just back up my phone to my laptop to synchronize photos? I have about 40K photos. I still have lots of room on my phone and laptop. What do you think?
Could you do a video on how to export a portion of your iPhotos library in the case of maxing out the 2 TB as I don't want to upgrade to Apple One. My thought is to create a new filtered album (for example Before 2016), export the photos to an external drive. Then create a new offline library - import the photos you exported - not connected through icloud. Then open the original library - and delete the photos prior to 2016. So everything recent would still be uploaded and synced. It would just not be storing the pictures prior to 2016 in the Apple's icloud. You could use another cloud service for the older photos / videos. If there's another better way to do this - would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks for all the videos too - Very informative!
The Cloud is wonderful in an ideal world with the best Internet connection. Otherwise .. 😢
I won't argue with that @The Field Workshop! Internet unfortunately is a necessity, and even better when it's actually fast internet.
Thanks so much for watching!
If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already!
If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you!
It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
Thank you for once again doing such an informative video & taking things in steps like that! I know more now than before about this, but I guess I won’t get anywhere if I don’t start having some kind of system on decluttering etc 🙈 I’m just overwhelmed now since I haven’t had a good system to do that before so I’m having sooooo many files to go through. Do you have any recommendations on how to not get defeated even before starting the process?
Another thing I’ve thought about that would really help if you wanted to try to answer: when going through my photos/videos (that’s the thing that takes up most space for me), could I then log into iCloud on my Macbook & go through all my different folders & pictures & delete those I don’t want anymore & then have the same changes occur on my iPhone? I’m having iCloud turned on both on my Macbook & iPhone. If that’s the case I may feel like it’s a bit easier to go through it all than to do it on my phone 🙈
I do find it confusing that my Mac’s drive space usage shows different amount for each user. Shouldn’t it all be the same. I also wish there was a way to optimize photos for different users who each of the same photos on their user part of the drive. For example I have our wedding photos and my wife has out wedding photos and that essentially has double the same photos on our hard drive.
Thanks a lot... very good videos! very instructive!
I appreciate you more than you know @pedrojimenez7771!
Thank you for your continued support!
If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!
Merci!
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Thank you for your continued support. Your appreciation is deeply valued!
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Very nice presentation. Thanks
I appreciate you and the kind words @nareshvasishth4034!
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Thank you very much very informative
Thanks
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