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iCloud folder not freeing up space on Mac's internal storage

Please can someone help here


my macbooks storage is full, so i have paid for extra iCloud soace and sent my documents/downloads from my desktop to my icloud folder in my finder, but it still says my internal mac storage is full.


its driving me insane can anyone help?


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MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.7

Posted on Jan 21, 2025 7:56 AM

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Jan 21, 2025 12:25 PM in response to Benjee96

As muguy suggested, I have a very small 2TB SSD that I carry around with my MacBook. It's really quite convenient.


It looks like you are running Ventura, is that right?


In Sequoia, it has become possible to designate some of the files in iCloud Drive to be kept only in iCloud until you request them.

Other files can be marked to never be removed.


You might want to move to Sequoia.



iCloud folder not freeing up space on Mac's internal storage

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