Your Tutorials are so AWESOME and incredibly helpful especially for new Macbook Users, i really appreciate your advice, and your information, is so valuable to apple users, thank you for your sound advice, i always turn to your channel when i encounter a Macbook issue. thank you Laura. in England.
Hey Gary I would love to see you make a video on how to take words that the iPhone puts in your sentences when speaking/or auto populates that are misspelled And delete them from showing up in the future in the suggestion box above the typewriter keyboard.
Hi Gary, I must admit, you won me over. I never used Icloud for my documents. Just last week I started to do that and I love it how all my macs are synchonized on the desktop and documentsfolders. I keep my desktop usaly clean of files (only post-it notes) but had one file on it for my holiday and I saw it suddenly on my Macbook aswell. Really handy. I saw an old video from you last week, which persuaded me. I also disovered if you right-click on a file and select delete download, than that file is manually moved only to the cloud. In combination with optimize, like you explained is that really handy to manage yourself if you want to. You inspired me! Although I am a Mac-user more then 10 years, I always watch your video's. Often I have another way of going about my business, but sometimes I am really happy with you. And this was one of those times. Sorry for my poor English, it is not my native language, but many many thanks!
Eye opener! I did not know of the Apple pay method! Great overview of icloud....need help with "family" letting others use my storage and have just the $10 ...how to set up? Would love more info on "archiving" photos. Do you mean pulling off and putting on a external? harddrive?
Another great video Gary. I'm a big fan of iCloud but I only wish that Apple would offer 1tb tier for say $5 / month. It's a sweet spot that I think Apple is not taking advantage of.
Very helpful!!! but.. I have watch almost all your videos on Photos and I cannot get my Desktop to sync anymore. I have tried every tick. Even did re-store on the whole library. Switch things on and off... waited... nothing is working to get my iPhone 13 to sync with my desktop Photos. It syncs on to my iPad and it loads directly to iCloud online area almost instantly. I have 232GB available storage. Something is wrong and I can't figure it out.
Hi. Really learn from your videos. If i use iCloud Drive on my iMac and Macbook (and iPhone & iPad) what happens if i have two different files w the same name on either unit or what if i have different versions of the same file on either unit? Also, can you have separate iCloud Drive accounts for different devices (which might defeat the purpose…). Can you help?
You couldn't normally save a file with the same name even without iCloud Drive. If there is a conflict, it will ask you to resolve it with a prompt. Yes, separate iCloud Drive accounts (Apple IDs) wouldn't make sense.
Gary great video, I'm suscribed and glad I found you. I'm a new Macbook ownner(2021). I purchased the Macbook to do video editing for youtube videos. I have somthing imported into iMovie that I cannit get out. Everytime I delete the app it obviouly reinstalls from the cloud with the same clutter that I'm trying to remove. I assume using this video I should be able to delete the folder permently from the cloud then when I download it from the app store it should be a fresh copy, correct?? Ken
Hi Gary. I have a couple of questions for you. When I receive a notification on my mac, I can't seem to choose for how long I want it to snooze. Another thing is, when I have more than two appointments on my mac calendar, how can I move them all at the same time just like I can with only one?
50GB of storage for $0.99/mo. is a bargain. Even better is that I have Apple Card and my balance gets zeroed out every month (presumably because it is < $1 on the card). That should change this month with me signing up for Apple Music. Regardless, this video got me looking at my iCloud Drive usage and it seems I have GBs of old junk that I need to look through and likely delete. Thanks Gary!
Excellent videos! Thank you for doing this. Question: (1) on my iPhone, I have 50 gig of photographs which seems to translate into 173gig in iCloud (I have the 2TB plan). The iPhone photographs are in folders by topic. Do those folders sync to iCloud? to the Mac? (2) I have NEVER used the photos app on the Mac. If I open the photos app will it immediately try to download 173 gig of photographs from iCloud? If yes, will it sync the folders in iOS as well? Thank you! Art
Not sure what you mean by "folders by topic" -- do you mean you created some albums? If not, what are some examples of these "topics" you see? If you launch Photos and then go to Photos, Preferences you will see the "Optimize" feature. If you turn that on, then it will work like you iPhone, with only recent and frequently viewed photos cached locally. If you have that off, then it will cache all 173 GB of them so they are on your local drive and ready to be viewed and edited, even offline. As for "folders" you'll need to be more specific: albums?
It shows I have 4.6 GB of docs. at my iCloud account, but the files are not showing any place. Nothing at the iCloud account, nothing at my local iCloud settings window. Any advice? Thank you.
I would like to hear more about managing the desktop folder in the documents folder if you’re using iCloud or not it’s very confusing I’d really like to have my desktop and documents stay on my device and not be stored in iCloud when iCloud is on is there a way to do this
There's no iCloud service that will backup your Mac's files like that. If you want an online backup, use Backblaze or something like that. See macmost.com/recommendations
@@macmost Thanks. That's exactly what I'm doing, but I'm not happy with this! Apple should provide a care free package for an online backup! I will switch immediately to Tesla, if they start producing phones and computers!!!
Gary, do books that you have purchased from Apple permanently reside on iCloud and therefore take up storage? If yes, can you delete them so that they no longer take up storage space? Thanks.
Hi Gary, Really timely video for me. However my media purchases is greyed out and I cannot seem to do anything to get it to be active. I can download Apps, iCloud Drive syncing...so not sure what else I need to do.
@@macmost Yes, Ithe official Apple page doesn‘t mention it clearly. I see the cloud icon, the path... but actually I couldn‘t assure if this “cloud drive” is really inside my equipment and taking space. But all your videos solved my inquieres. Thanks!
Hi Gary,. I really need help. I have a 2013 Mac Book Air (4 G / 250 G) . It does not have enough space to upgrade to Big Sur, so I have put all my photos and documents on ICloud and deleted them afterwards and emptied the bin but when I check the storage, it still shows that my document are usign 50 G and the photos 40 G. What does this mean? I rebooted after transferring everything on the cloud. I need that Mac only for Pages to be able to work occasionally on a book I'm writing on my IMac. Thank you.
You deleted your photos? That's not good. If you have deleted your photos in iCloud they are gone. Check that now. Hopefully you don't mean that. If you just added photos to iCloud and they are there, it will take time for the Photos app to upload them and then optimize your storage. Find out what else is taking up space: ua-cam.com/video/0-xtOFy8XfU/v-deo.html
i am very VERY slow at understanding anything tech. what i don't understand is why icloud takes up any space on my computer when its in the cloud. is there anyway of freeing all that space up?
I have 3 older macs 2 MacBook Pro’s and 6 iPhones 4,5,6,7+,8+ and a XR and have loads and loads of the same files on each device is there any software that would help me clear all that and manage it better ?? I have been using macs for years and love them but no idea how to use them feel stupid now
Thank you for such a great video! I am trying to delete documents from iCloud as I only want to store them on my computer. It says open iCloud Drive in Finder and delete documents. I follow these steps, but it doesn't work for me. When I open iCloud Drive, I am not able to delete the documents. Do you have any suggestions, by any chance? Thank you.
hello, in my iPhone and iPad my photo storage is about 2 gb . and in the iCloud is about 50 gb cause I use optimize my photo so it won't take storage. but in my new MacBook it says it is taking 15 gb of storage from the internal storage meanwhile in the iCloud still the same as 50 gb. is here a reason why on my MacBook it takes so much storage? thanks in advance
Perhaps because you have the space? One of the factors is how much space you have available. If you have enough it will store more photos locally so they are there if you need them. If you begin to run out of space, it would "optimize" to use less.
A lot of my recent photos disappeared from photos(on my imac) but are stil visible on photos on my iphone and icloud? how do I get my photos back on my mac? thanks
Sounds like maybe you turned off iCloud Photos on your Mac? Check that. If you still can't find them, call Apple Support and walk through things with them to see where you could be going wrong.
@@primalpassion Yes, basic support is free (or more accurately, you have already paid for it when you bought your Apple product). If it needs something more, like a device needs a repair, then they will tell you how much it will cost.
I didn't need iCloud, but by accident it clicked and started transferring a 300GB file and stopped at 5GB and I couldn't get it back to normal on my Mac. I need help with this please. I mean, I don't know what to do. If I clear iCloud, will all the files be deleted?
Do you mean you turned on Desktop & Documents for iCloud and then turned it off? It is hard to know what state you are in since you canceled right after starting. And you don't say what "it" is exactly.
I‘d like to ask you something about bookmarks. 1. What bookmarks actually do is just to create direct link, direct accesses, like aliases, right? What happens if an html file on the web is removed or taken down or one of your macmosvideo I bookmarked is removed, they will not be available any longer, right? 2. I have lots of articles, all in html, but downloading them as *mht or converting them to pdf is like too tedious and primitive. Is there a way I can save the full content of an html or a macmostVideo (without commercial purposes of course), straight in a cloud? so even when the content get removed from the web, my bookmarked content will still be available, without the need to download locally.... and then uploading to a cloud? Thank U;).
Right, it just saves the URL and makes it easy for you to go to it again, instead of having to memorize the URL and type it. If the web page is missing then it would be just like typing a URL to a page that isn't there. You can save an article you are reading as a PDF, certainly. There's no easier way to do it than going to the article and using the menu command to save a PDF. If the page has more complex content, like a video, then it is harder. There's no easy way to do that. Note that just because you are copying content "without commercial purposes" doesn't make it legal in terms of copyright, nor does it make it ethical without asking the creator's permission. It is also probably waste of time as the bookmark is easy, content remains present unless there is a good reason to remove it (which you may want to respect) and you'll see updates and information if you return to the actual content location.
That's not how cloud services work. Sounds like you are looking for a "remote storage" service, not a cloud storage service. You can do something like that with the cloud though by simply turning on the "Optimize" feature. That's what it is for. Then all of the data is in iCloud, but some of it (recent and frequently-accessed files) are cached locally. See ua-cam.com/video/S7JYHX2iT9Q/v-deo.html
I've deleted all my unwanted messaged with all their attachments but my icloud storage number won't go down. I restarted the phone. Any other places to look for deleted items other than trash?
Could you help me? I have about 100 short videos on my phone, located in the Photos files. But, when I look at my Photos Library, there are no videos. Where would the iCloud system store those videos? I have looked everywhere and cannot locate them. HELP!
Where are they, exactly? "Photos" and "Photos Library" mean the same thing. If you have them in your Photos Library and you have iCloud turned on for your Photos Library (both on Mac and iPhone) then you should see them on both places.
@@macmost I didn't turn on the same feature on my Mac, once I did that, although it took a long time, that brought all the pictures to the Mac, as I wanted. Thank you so much for your help. I like your videos.
Do you mean an image? What sort of image? Graphic or photo? What part would be transparent? Usually you do that in a graphics app like Photoshop, Pixelmator, etc., and then take your edited image into the video editor.
@@macmost In Preferences>apple id 1.2GB and finder>icloud drive>documents it says 20MB. An expert said icloud only saves so much, and the rest is in the internal HD. I don't have movies or videos only documents basically which says 20MB, i'm unsure because its a new SSD the Start up disk looks like it is storing alot of space.
@@Lit_Hot_takes The first one is telling you that you have 1.2GB of files in iCloud Drive that are document files. The second one is telling you your folder named "Documents" is a total of 20MB in size. There are files that are "documents" and there is a folder named "Documents." Two different things. Like in a house you may have a "Clothing Closet" that has 100 pieces of clothing (and other things as well), but you may have 200 pieces clothing in your house total (in other rooms, the laundry, etc). So it sounds like you have files in other places like maybe your Desktop folder or other folders in iCloud Drive.
Hello Gary. I My question is not about this video. Sometimes deleted files just won’t appear on the trash folder.. so there is no way of recovering any. Is this a bug? Is there a fix?
@@macmost i just click and drag.. I don’t even know what I’m doing wrong! But once deleted some files just won’t show anymore on the trash folder. I just don’t get it. And it is causing me a bit of trouble. Fortunately I really don’t need to recover files often since I only delete when I’m sure of what I’m doing and I also keep a copy on time machine. But still it shouldn’t happen!
@@macmost exactly. At this precise moment I’m checking and it just keeps happening. Wish I could send you a video.. I just found out that if i right click and click on send to trash the file goes straight to the trash folder. But if i drag it to the trash it disappears for ever. Guess I’ll have to change that habit of dragging and just right click and send to trash. Is that how it works?
@@gabrielg492 Anything unusual about these files? Are they on a different drive? Are they any file type out of the ordinary? Does it happen with all files every time?
They are not related. Time Machine will back up the documents that are on your Mac. If you turn off Desktop and Documents and decide to store your documents all locally, then Time Machine will back those up, naturally. But if you decide to turn that off and NOT keep documents on your Mac at all (not sure what the situation would be here) then they aren't on your Mac so they can't be backed up.
@@macmost I want to keep my documents on my Imac (for back up reasons) but would like to have access to them when I am on my iPad and iPhone. Is there another way? I'm 5 months new with iMac, and I find your videos very helpful.
@@isimplyplan911 Yes. Use iCloud Drive, but with the "Optimize" feature turned off. Then everything is both on your Mac and in iCloud. You can access your files on your iPad and iPhone and they are always on your Mac 100% of the time so they get backed up.
@@isimplyplan911 "Optimize" doesn't change whether or not you can access things on your iPad. Optimize is simply for saving space on your Mac. See ua-cam.com/video/S7JYHX2iT9Q/v-deo.html and try to understand it so you know what is going on. If you wish to see Desktop and Documents folders in iCloud, then yes, you need to turn on Desktop & Documents.
Great video. So clear and concise. Two quick question: I have 60.7MB in Mail and the junk and trash folders are empty (which is says to erase) and there's only three emails in it. This isn't taking into account a Gmail or other online accounts, only my Apple iCloud mail, right? I don't understand why it is using up that much space with literally nothing in it. Another question is it won't let me turn on Photos in iCloud even though I emptied it. Is it trying to accomodate every photo on the hard drive in Photos? I don't care if it's not in the Cloud as I have it on the Mac and an external harddrive. Thanks for any help!!!!
For email 61MB is tiny. I wouldn’t worry about it. But if you want to know what it is and can’t figure it out, you’d probably need an expert to take a firsthand look. As for Photos, what error message do you get?
@@macmost Thank you for the reply. I'll put the email thing on the back burner. I went into my Photos on iMac and just started deleting and deleting and deleting...and deleting. The message I kept getting was that iCloud storage was full, even though I cleared out the iCloud storage on my iPhone, but I hadn't done it on my desktop Mac and apparently that was what was preventing Photo Stream from working. Go figure. I do have a more concise understanding of how this all works from your video so many "thank yous" to you and thank you again for replying! I guess, iCloud takes a Village, right? ;)
My big fear of cloud storage is synching. I never know what providers are choosing to sync without my knowledge. Also, if I delete a file from my hard drive and put it on an external drive, does it delete the file in the cloud? Lots of problems like this. I was shocked to find that Google Drive, for example, automatically deletes backup files after 30 days. Also, backups often have the wrong creation dates. So the whole thing is a complex mess. It seems more designed for the providers' benefit than for the client's benefit.
I think Apple makes it very clear what data is part of iCloud and what data is not. There's a list of checkboxes right there in System Preferences. If a file is in iCloud Drive, which is very easy to see, then if you move it to a location that is no part of iCloud Drive, whether it is an external drive or a non-iCloud folder, then it is removed from iCloud Drive, naturally.
@@macmost So if I move a file from my Macbook's "Documents" folder to an "Old Documents" folder then it's deleted from iCloud? Then iCloud is useless as a backup drive. That's why I don't like syncing. It doesn't give warnings or anything. You have to remember what's being synched and what's not being synched. There should be a function like, "Don't delete anything without warning". Another example: If I accidentally delete a document, then it's accidentally deleted from iCloud too. Again, that's useless as a backup. Many other cases like this.
I have Optimize click and apparently many things are stored on my computer but cannot find here they are stored? Does anybody know where that folder should be? Thanks
@@macmost Long story, But just had my iPhone stolen and some of my contacts are not syncing with my new phone but are in my contacts on my iCloud and other computer. But also on the iCloud screen you were showing there is a Button that says Keep optimized media or something on this computer..? But I cannot find where that is stored on my computer.. Also I lost all my WhatsApp in my phone but apparently I have 16 gigs of WhatsApp files on my laptop/iCloud but I cannot find those either?
When checking like you shoed in the video WhatsApp DOES show up on my computer but does NOT show up in iCloud website... which is weird... SO I want to see if I can save or find all my older WhatsApp files on my computer but do not know where that Optimized on this computer stores those items..? Hope that makes sense...
@@macmost PS. My drive folder shows hardly anything for some odd reason as well. But I have 20 gigs of storage . But have not re paid for the subscription for the last 7 years or so... Right now I am trying to download my 20.000 plus pictures to my newer computer so I can erase them all from my iCloud, but you can only download 1.000 at a time..
@@ericknorpp8238 The optimize switches (there are two) have nothing to do with Contacts. If you are missing contacts, either wait to see if the sync finishes, or contact Apple Support. WhatsApp is not Apple and it an independent app that has its own way of storing things. You'll need to contact WhatsApp support (does that even exist?) if you want help there. Sounds like you have a lot of issues and want to solve them all. I would contact Apple Support and work with someone or get some direct help from an expert on this. UA-cam comments aren't going to provide the level of support you are seeking here.
If you have 2TB of iCloud Drive but only 500GB memory on your Mac, it tells you your Mac is full when iCloud Drive gets to 500GB. You then have to move items to an external hard drive or another cloud service to be able to use your Mac. What's the point of 2TB then? Not understanding the point of iCloud Drive I suppose.
If you have more data in iCloud than you have space on your Mac, you need to turn on the "Optimize" preference. See ua-cam.com/video/S7JYHX2iT9Q/v-deo.html
@@macmost Thanks for the reply. There are videos of folks with optimization on who's Macs are still bogged down by iCloud. Apple should explain that iCloud is a syncing only service, limited by the amount of your Macs memory.
@@paulcaskey ? I'm not sure what you are talking about. Most people use iCloud Drive with "Optimize" turned on. I've never heard of anything getting "bogged down."
@@macmost Here is one of the videos. She claims iCloud made her Mac unusable and had to move everything to an external drive. I trust your opinion, just confused by folks who claim otherwise. ua-cam.com/video/Ua7ZSa0gSzc/v-deo.html
@@paulcaskey That's one person complaining about a single instance of a problem more than 2 and a half years ago! (3 versions of macOS back). And she never even explains what happened. Like was she trying to work with a lot of large files at once? Or did she manually select a lot of files to download? Or was the space being used by something unrelated to iCloud entirely? Just because one person had a problem 2.5 years ago doesn't mean you'll have the same problem today with your Mac and your situation. If you avoided things every time a single person complained you can pretty much forget about using computers, phones, technology, or pretty much anything. And note that people don't make UA-cam videos like that when everything is working fine. Why would they? You see the few people complaining, but the vast majority where everything works fine aren't going to say anything.
Gary, a lot of you UA-camrs that publish stuff on Apple products seem to focus a lot more on Mac units. In the real world, I would venture to wager that there are many more users of Ipads than Mac users (merely because of the selling price of the units. It would be nice if we could see what is applicable to an Ipad and not just delve totally into Mac computers.
Today I bought my 1st MacBook (M1)😍
Very useful. Nobody explains better. Always watch them until the end. Thanks!
Your Tutorials are so AWESOME and incredibly helpful especially for new Macbook Users,
i really appreciate your advice, and your information, is so valuable to apple users, thank you for your sound advice, i always turn to your channel when i encounter a Macbook issue. thank you Laura. in England.
Hey Gary I would love to see you make a video on how to take words that the iPhone puts in your sentences when speaking/or auto populates that are misspelled And delete them from showing up in the future in the suggestion box above the typewriter keyboard.
Hi Gary, I must admit, you won me over. I never used Icloud for my documents. Just last week I started to do that and I love it how all my macs are synchonized on the desktop and documentsfolders. I keep my desktop usaly clean of files (only post-it notes) but had one file on it for my holiday and I saw it suddenly on my Macbook aswell. Really handy.
I saw an old video from you last week, which persuaded me. I also disovered if you right-click on a file and select delete download, than that file is manually moved only to the cloud. In combination with optimize, like you explained is that really handy to manage yourself if you want to. You inspired me! Although I am a Mac-user more then 10 years, I always watch your video's. Often I have another way of going about my business, but sometimes I am really happy with you. And this was one of those times. Sorry for my poor English, it is not my native language, but many many thanks!
YES!! Best quote of the week. "It's like getting a nice car but refusing to drive it on the expressway! Gary, that made me laugh out loud 😆
Very useful video. Thank you, Gary! ❤️
If you have the Apple credit card, in most cases the cash-back feature can end up covering your additional iCloud storage fee.
Eye opener! I did not know of the Apple pay method! Great overview of icloud....need help with "family" letting others use my storage and have just the $10 ...how to set up? Would love more info on "archiving" photos. Do you mean pulling off and putting on a external? harddrive?
Thank you Gary! You just got me my first subscription! 😊
Thank you for the video. Far better than what was on the MS customer support.
Thank You Gary. Very helpful.
Another great video Gary. I'm a big fan of iCloud but I only wish that Apple would offer 1tb tier for say $5 / month. It's a sweet spot that I think Apple is not taking advantage of.
I needed this tutorial; thank you for all the tips.
this is the second time you've saved my life!
This was so helpful, thank you!
I have disabled it and I am so happy!!!
Love your videos! I just moved my iTunes library to Icloud.
Glad i got this tutorial
Do you have a video on syncing my download folder with iCloud so that I can view files on my other Apple devices
Set your browser downloads to save to iCloud Drive/Downloads. Anything in iCloud Drive will be seen on all of your devices.
Very helpful!!! but.. I have watch almost all your videos on Photos and I cannot get my Desktop to sync anymore. I have tried every tick. Even did re-store on the whole library. Switch things on and off... waited... nothing is working to get my iPhone 13 to sync with my desktop Photos. It syncs on to my iPad and it loads directly to iCloud online area almost instantly. I have 232GB available storage. Something is wrong and I can't figure it out.
Thanks! Super helpful info as always.
Thanks!
Does storing and working with files stored in iCloud/Documents folder slow down performance? I.E. Photoshop and Illustrator files.
Great question!
Hi. Really learn from your videos. If i use iCloud Drive on my iMac and Macbook (and iPhone & iPad) what happens if i have two different files w the same name on either unit or what if i have different versions of the same file on either unit? Also, can you have separate iCloud Drive accounts for different devices (which might defeat the purpose…). Can you help?
You couldn't normally save a file with the same name even without iCloud Drive. If there is a conflict, it will ask you to resolve it with a prompt. Yes, separate iCloud Drive accounts (Apple IDs) wouldn't make sense.
@@macmost Many thanks!
Gary great video, I'm suscribed and glad I found you. I'm a new Macbook ownner(2021). I purchased the Macbook to do video editing for youtube videos. I have somthing imported into iMovie that I cannit get out. Everytime I delete the app it obviouly reinstalls from the cloud with the same clutter that I'm trying to remove. I assume using this video I should be able to delete the folder permently from the cloud then when I download it from the app store it should be a fresh copy, correct??
Ken
Deleting the app doesn't do anything to the data. If you want to delete a project in your iMovie library, do it in iMovie.
@@macmost Thank you I was able to delete the project in iMovie.
Hi Gary. I have a couple of questions for you. When I receive a notification on my mac, I can't seem to choose for how long I want it to snooze. Another thing is, when I have more than two appointments on my mac calendar, how can I move them all at the same time just like I can with only one?
That's right. Ask Apple for more snooze options! www.apple.com/feedback/ I don't think you can more more than one event at a time.
Thank you this video was very useful
50GB of storage for $0.99/mo. is a bargain. Even better is that I have Apple Card and my balance gets zeroed out every month (presumably because it is < $1 on the card). That should change this month with me signing up for Apple Music. Regardless, this video got me looking at my iCloud Drive usage and it seems I have GBs of old junk that I need to look through and likely delete. Thanks Gary!
Excellent videos! Thank you for doing this. Question: (1) on my iPhone, I have 50 gig of photographs which seems to translate into 173gig in iCloud (I have the 2TB plan). The iPhone photographs are in folders by topic. Do those folders sync to iCloud? to the Mac? (2) I have NEVER used the photos app on the Mac. If I open the photos app will it immediately try to download 173 gig of photographs from iCloud? If yes, will it sync the folders in iOS as well? Thank you! Art
Not sure what you mean by "folders by topic" -- do you mean you created some albums? If not, what are some examples of these "topics" you see? If you launch Photos and then go to Photos, Preferences you will see the "Optimize" feature. If you turn that on, then it will work like you iPhone, with only recent and frequently viewed photos cached locally. If you have that off, then it will cache all 173 GB of them so they are on your local drive and ready to be viewed and edited, even offline. As for "folders" you'll need to be more specific: albums?
@@macmost Yes, "albums", sorry!
Very helpful! Thank you for always teaching me so much, Gary!
I have back up most storage in iCloud storage
It shows I have 4.6 GB of docs. at my iCloud account, but the files are not showing any place. Nothing at the iCloud account, nothing at my local iCloud settings window. Any advice? Thank you.
I would like to hear more about managing the desktop folder in the documents folder if you’re using iCloud or not it’s very confusing I’d really like to have my desktop and documents stay on my device and not be stored in iCloud when iCloud is on is there a way to do this
Nice video
How can I backup ALL data in the iCloud?! So also the download folder, settings, applications, etc.?
There's no iCloud service that will backup your Mac's files like that. If you want an online backup, use Backblaze or something like that. See macmost.com/recommendations
@@macmost Thanks. That's exactly what I'm doing, but I'm not happy with this! Apple should provide a care free package for an online backup! I will switch immediately to Tesla, if they start producing phones and computers!!!
Hi, can you please tell me how move data from iCloud to MacBook hard driver?
Gary, do books that you have purchased from Apple permanently reside on iCloud and therefore take up storage? If yes, can you delete them so that they no longer take up storage space? Thanks.
I don't think they do. Books you upload should (like PDFs you add to the Books app). But you can always check your iCloud storage to see.
@@macmost Thanks.
Hi Gary, Really timely video for me. However my media purchases is greyed out and I cannot seem to do anything to get it to be active.
I can download Apps, iCloud Drive syncing...so not sure what else I need to do.
Hi Gary. What is in the iCloud drive is ALSO saved locally in the mac? In the Boot drive or Macintosh HD?
Depends on your setting and the file. See ua-cam.com/video/S7JYHX2iT9Q/v-deo.html
@@macmost Yes, Ithe official Apple page doesn‘t mention it clearly. I see the cloud icon, the path... but actually I couldn‘t assure if this “cloud drive” is really inside my equipment and taking space. But all your videos solved my inquieres. Thanks!
No it’s more like buying a nice car and refusing to buy gas. I didn’t know about the add money to your account. That’s very helpful
The only channel I watch when I have doubts on how to do something on my macbook...
Hi Gary,. I really need help. I have a 2013 Mac Book Air (4 G / 250 G) . It does not have enough space to upgrade to Big Sur, so I have put all my photos and documents on ICloud and deleted them afterwards and emptied the bin but when I check the storage, it still shows that my document are usign 50 G and the photos 40 G. What does this mean? I rebooted after transferring everything on the cloud. I need that Mac only for Pages to be able to work occasionally on a book I'm writing on my IMac. Thank you.
You deleted your photos? That's not good. If you have deleted your photos in iCloud they are gone. Check that now. Hopefully you don't mean that.
If you just added photos to iCloud and they are there, it will take time for the Photos app to upload them and then optimize your storage.
Find out what else is taking up space: ua-cam.com/video/0-xtOFy8XfU/v-deo.html
Gary,what did you mean when you said you could 'archive' your photoshop example.
For instance, you could get an external drive, move old projects to it that you probably won't need to access anymore.
good evening, how can i clean my Mac so it can run more efficiently and also clean out my storage?
Here are some ideas on how to clear space. ua-cam.com/video/0-xtOFy8XfU/v-deo.html
I don't have "Apple ID" option after clicking system preferences.
i am very VERY slow at understanding anything tech. what i don't understand is why icloud takes up any space on my computer when its in the cloud. is there anyway of freeing all that space up?
It caches things locally do you don't have to download everything all the time. The Optimize function keeps that storage under control.
I have 3 older macs 2 MacBook Pro’s and 6 iPhones 4,5,6,7+,8+ and a XR and have loads and loads of the same files on each device is there any software that would help me clear all that and manage it better ?? I have been using macs for years and love them but no idea how to use them feel stupid now
There's no software that is going to organize your files for you. Not sure what you are using all of these old devices for so it is hard to advise.
Thank you for such a great video! I am trying to delete documents from iCloud as I only want to store them on my computer. It says open iCloud Drive in Finder and delete documents. I follow these steps, but it doesn't work for me. When I open iCloud Drive, I am not able to delete the documents. Do you have any suggestions, by any chance? Thank you.
hello, in my iPhone and iPad my photo storage is about 2 gb . and in the iCloud is about 50 gb cause I use optimize my photo so it won't take storage. but in my new MacBook it says it is taking 15 gb of storage from the internal storage meanwhile in the iCloud still the same as 50 gb. is here a reason why on my MacBook it takes so much storage? thanks in advance
Perhaps because you have the space? One of the factors is how much space you have available. If you have enough it will store more photos locally so they are there if you need them. If you begin to run out of space, it would "optimize" to use less.
Thank you 😊
Very useful. Clearly presented and well organized tutorial. Thank You!
A lot of my recent photos disappeared from photos(on my imac) but are stil visible on photos on my iphone and icloud? how do I get my photos back on my mac? thanks
Sounds like maybe you turned off iCloud Photos on your Mac? Check that. If you still can't find them, call Apple Support and walk through things with them to see where you could be going wrong.
@@macmost is apple support free? thanks
@@primalpassion Yes, basic support is free (or more accurately, you have already paid for it when you bought your Apple product). If it needs something more, like a device needs a repair, then they will tell you how much it will cost.
@@macmost Great advice! I didn't even know I had apple support, lol! They helped me figure out my problem. thanks!
Thank you
thnx
I'm having problem updating my icloud storage because payment always decline. What should I do?
Call Apple Support.
I didn't need iCloud, but by accident it clicked and started transferring a 300GB file and stopped at 5GB and I couldn't get it back to normal on my Mac. I need help with this please. I mean, I don't know what to do. If I clear iCloud, will all the files be deleted?
Do you mean you turned on Desktop & Documents for iCloud and then turned it off? It is hard to know what state you are in since you canceled right after starting. And you don't say what "it" is exactly.
iCloud en external drive?
I‘d like to ask you something about bookmarks.
1. What bookmarks actually do is just to create direct link, direct accesses, like aliases, right? What happens if an html file on the web is removed or taken down or one of your macmosvideo I bookmarked is removed, they will not be available any longer, right?
2. I have lots of articles, all in html, but downloading them as *mht or converting them to pdf is like too tedious and primitive. Is there a way I can save the full content of an html or a macmostVideo (without commercial purposes of course), straight in a cloud? so even when the content get removed from the web, my bookmarked content will still be available, without the need to download locally.... and then uploading to a cloud? Thank U;).
Right, it just saves the URL and makes it easy for you to go to it again, instead of having to memorize the URL and type it. If the web page is missing then it would be just like typing a URL to a page that isn't there. You can save an article you are reading as a PDF, certainly. There's no easier way to do it than going to the article and using the menu command to save a PDF. If the page has more complex content, like a video, then it is harder. There's no easy way to do that. Note that just because you are copying content "without commercial purposes" doesn't make it legal in terms of copyright, nor does it make it ethical without asking the creator's permission. It is also probably waste of time as the bookmark is easy, content remains present unless there is a good reason to remove it (which you may want to respect) and you'll see updates and information if you return to the actual content location.
What can you do to hold all your data (files) on iCloud (zero on your own computer)?
That's not how cloud services work. Sounds like you are looking for a "remote storage" service, not a cloud storage service. You can do something like that with the cloud though by simply turning on the "Optimize" feature. That's what it is for. Then all of the data is in iCloud, but some of it (recent and frequently-accessed files) are cached locally. See ua-cam.com/video/S7JYHX2iT9Q/v-deo.html
I've deleted all my unwanted messaged with all their attachments but my icloud storage number won't go down. I restarted the phone. Any other places to look for deleted items other than trash?
Plenty of other suggestions here in the video.
Could you help me? I have about 100 short videos on my phone, located in the Photos files. But, when I look at my Photos Library, there are no videos. Where would the iCloud system store those videos? I have looked everywhere and cannot locate them. HELP!
Where are they, exactly? "Photos" and "Photos Library" mean the same thing. If you have them in your Photos Library and you have iCloud turned on for your Photos Library (both on Mac and iPhone) then you should see them on both places.
@@macmost I didn't turn on the same feature on my Mac, once I did that, although it took a long time, that brought all the pictures to the Mac, as I wanted. Thank you so much for your help. I like your videos.
Can you do a tutorial on how to turn something transparent? I’ve been trying from final cut and it doesn’t become transparent
Do you mean an image? What sort of image? Graphic or photo? What part would be transparent? Usually you do that in a graphics app like Photoshop, Pixelmator, etc., and then take your edited image into the video editor.
icloud drive does not show the true amount, example Documents 1.3 GB - icloud drive only shows 3 MB. Is there a way to find them to clear storage?
Where do you see each of those two numbers, exactly?
@@macmost In Preferences>apple id 1.2GB and finder>icloud drive>documents it says 20MB. An expert said icloud only saves so much, and the rest is in the internal HD. I don't have movies or videos only documents basically which says 20MB, i'm unsure because its a new SSD the Start up disk looks like it is storing alot of space.
@@Lit_Hot_takes The first one is telling you that you have 1.2GB of files in iCloud Drive that are document files. The second one is telling you your folder named "Documents" is a total of 20MB in size.
There are files that are "documents" and there is a folder named "Documents." Two different things.
Like in a house you may have a "Clothing Closet" that has 100 pieces of clothing (and other things as well), but you may have 200 pieces clothing in your house total (in other rooms, the laundry, etc).
So it sounds like you have files in other places like maybe your Desktop folder or other folders in iCloud Drive.
Hello Gary. I My question is not about this video. Sometimes deleted files just won’t appear on the trash folder.. so there is no way of recovering any. Is this a bug? Is there a fix?
I've never seen that happen. How are you moving those files to the Trash?
@@macmost i just click and drag.. I don’t even know what I’m doing wrong! But once deleted some files just won’t show anymore on the trash folder. I just don’t get it. And it is causing me a bit of trouble. Fortunately I really don’t need to recover files often since I only delete when I’m sure of what I’m doing and I also keep a copy on time machine. But still it shouldn’t happen!
@@gabrielg492 So you drag a file from a Finder window, to the Trash in the Dock? And then you look in the Trash right after and the file isn't there?
@@macmost exactly. At this precise moment I’m checking and it just keeps happening. Wish I could send you a video..
I just found out that if i right click and click on send to trash the file goes straight to the trash folder.
But if i drag it to the trash it disappears for ever.
Guess I’ll have to change that habit of dragging and just right click and send to trash.
Is that how it works?
@@gabrielg492 Anything unusual about these files? Are they on a different drive? Are they any file type out of the ordinary? Does it happen with all files every time?
If I turn on desktop and documents folder in iCloud Drive, are all my documents still being backed up to my time machine?
They are not related. Time Machine will back up the documents that are on your Mac. If you turn off Desktop and Documents and decide to store your documents all locally, then Time Machine will back those up, naturally. But if you decide to turn that off and NOT keep documents on your Mac at all (not sure what the situation would be here) then they aren't on your Mac so they can't be backed up.
@@macmost I want to keep my documents on my Imac (for back up reasons) but would like to have access to them when I am on my iPad and iPhone. Is there another way? I'm 5 months new with iMac, and I find your videos very helpful.
@@isimplyplan911 Yes. Use iCloud Drive, but with the "Optimize" feature turned off. Then everything is both on your Mac and in iCloud. You can access your files on your iPad and iPhone and they are always on your Mac 100% of the time so they get backed up.
@@macmost I turned off Optimize but I still can't access on iPad and iPhone. Do I need to turn on desktop and documents in iCloud Drive?
@@isimplyplan911 "Optimize" doesn't change whether or not you can access things on your iPad. Optimize is simply for saving space on your Mac. See ua-cam.com/video/S7JYHX2iT9Q/v-deo.html and try to understand it so you know what is going on. If you wish to see Desktop and Documents folders in iCloud, then yes, you need to turn on Desktop & Documents.
My iCloud keeps clocking in big sur. My iPad and older iMac works perfectly and syncs almost instantaneously
Great video. So clear and concise. Two quick question: I have 60.7MB in Mail and the junk and trash folders are empty (which is says to erase) and there's only three emails in it. This isn't taking into account a Gmail or other online accounts, only my Apple iCloud mail, right? I don't understand why it is using up that much space with literally nothing in it.
Another question is it won't let me turn on Photos in iCloud even though I emptied it. Is it trying to accomodate every photo on the hard drive in Photos? I don't care if it's not in the Cloud as I have it on the Mac and an external harddrive. Thanks for any help!!!!
For email 61MB is tiny. I wouldn’t worry about it. But if you want to know what it is and can’t figure it out, you’d probably need an expert to take a firsthand look. As for Photos, what error message do you get?
@@macmost Thank you for the reply. I'll put the email thing on the back burner. I went into my Photos on iMac and just started deleting and deleting and deleting...and deleting. The message I kept getting was that iCloud storage was full, even though I cleared out the iCloud storage on my iPhone, but I hadn't done it on my desktop Mac and apparently that was what was preventing Photo Stream from working. Go figure. I do have a more concise understanding of how this all works from your video so many "thank yous" to you and thank you again for replying! I guess, iCloud takes a Village, right? ;)
My big fear of cloud storage is synching. I never know what providers are choosing to sync without my knowledge. Also, if I delete a file from my hard drive and put it on an external drive, does it delete the file in the cloud? Lots of problems like this. I was shocked to find that Google Drive, for example, automatically deletes backup files after 30 days. Also, backups often have the wrong creation dates. So the whole thing is a complex mess. It seems more designed for the providers' benefit than for the client's benefit.
I think Apple makes it very clear what data is part of iCloud and what data is not. There's a list of checkboxes right there in System Preferences. If a file is in iCloud Drive, which is very easy to see, then if you move it to a location that is no part of iCloud Drive, whether it is an external drive or a non-iCloud folder, then it is removed from iCloud Drive, naturally.
@@macmost So if I move a file from my Macbook's "Documents" folder to an "Old Documents" folder then it's deleted from iCloud? Then iCloud is useless as a backup drive. That's why I don't like syncing. It doesn't give warnings or anything. You have to remember what's being synched and what's not being synched. There should be a function like, "Don't delete anything without warning". Another example: If I accidentally delete a document, then it's accidentally deleted from iCloud too. Again, that's useless as a backup. Many other cases like this.
I have Optimize click and apparently many things are stored on my computer but cannot find here they are stored? Does anybody know where that folder should be? Thanks
What are you looking for, exactly? All of your iCloud Drive files are in your iCloud Drive folder.
@@macmost Long story, But just had my iPhone stolen and some of my contacts are not syncing with my new phone but are in my contacts on my iCloud and other computer. But also on the iCloud screen you were showing there is a Button that says Keep optimized media or something on this computer..? But I cannot find where that is stored on my computer.. Also I lost all my WhatsApp in my phone but apparently I have 16 gigs of WhatsApp files on my laptop/iCloud but I cannot find those either?
When checking like you shoed in the video WhatsApp DOES show up on my computer but does NOT show up in iCloud website... which is weird... SO I want to see if I can save or find all my older WhatsApp files on my computer but do not know where that Optimized on this computer stores those items..? Hope that makes sense...
@@macmost PS. My drive folder shows hardly anything for some odd reason as well. But I have 20 gigs of storage . But have not re paid for the subscription for the last 7 years or so... Right now I am trying to download my 20.000 plus pictures to my newer computer so I can erase them all from my iCloud, but you can only download 1.000 at a time..
@@ericknorpp8238 The optimize switches (there are two) have nothing to do with Contacts. If you are missing contacts, either wait to see if the sync finishes, or contact Apple Support. WhatsApp is not Apple and it an independent app that has its own way of storing things. You'll need to contact WhatsApp support (does that even exist?) if you want help there. Sounds like you have a lot of issues and want to solve them all. I would contact Apple Support and work with someone or get some direct help from an expert on this. UA-cam comments aren't going to provide the level of support you are seeking here.
It asks me to change my password to a stronger one!!!! And it wont log in
Not a word on how to add a folder to icloud storage.
If you have 2TB of iCloud Drive but only 500GB memory on your Mac, it tells you your Mac is full when iCloud Drive gets to 500GB. You then have to move items to an external hard drive or another cloud service to be able to use your Mac. What's the point of 2TB then? Not understanding the point of iCloud Drive I suppose.
If you have more data in iCloud than you have space on your Mac, you need to turn on the "Optimize" preference. See ua-cam.com/video/S7JYHX2iT9Q/v-deo.html
@@macmost Thanks for the reply. There are videos of folks with optimization on who's Macs are still bogged down by iCloud. Apple should explain that iCloud is a syncing only service, limited by the amount of your Macs memory.
@@paulcaskey ? I'm not sure what you are talking about. Most people use iCloud Drive with "Optimize" turned on. I've never heard of anything getting "bogged down."
@@macmost Here is one of the videos. She claims iCloud made her Mac unusable and had to move everything to an external drive. I trust your opinion, just confused by folks who claim otherwise. ua-cam.com/video/Ua7ZSa0gSzc/v-deo.html
@@paulcaskey That's one person complaining about a single instance of a problem more than 2 and a half years ago! (3 versions of macOS back). And she never even explains what happened. Like was she trying to work with a lot of large files at once? Or did she manually select a lot of files to download? Or was the space being used by something unrelated to iCloud entirely? Just because one person had a problem 2.5 years ago doesn't mean you'll have the same problem today with your Mac and your situation. If you avoided things every time a single person complained you can pretty much forget about using computers, phones, technology, or pretty much anything. And note that people don't make UA-cam videos like that when everything is working fine. Why would they? You see the few people complaining, but the vast majority where everything works fine aren't going to say anything.
How to get rid of duplicate and multiplicate photos and videos?
macmost.com/forum/how-do-i-delete-duplicate-photos-in-catalina.html
What can you do to increase iCloud space beyond the 2Tb limit?
You can go up to 4TB if you have the Apple One plan and also add 2TB on top of that.
Gary, a lot of you UA-camrs that publish stuff on Apple products seem to focus a lot more on Mac units. In the real world, I would venture to wager that there are many more users of Ipads than Mac users (merely because of the selling price of the units. It would be nice if we could see what is applicable to an Ipad and not just delve totally into Mac computers.
Gary xee
Your videos are awesome but you talk too much. you can come to the point directly so that users can understand quickly. thanks mate.
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