bruno75, muguy, & léonie
Sorry I haven't gotten back to all of you, spent the last 4 weeks fixing Mail SMTP etc problems.
Any ole who, Thanks to each of you for your quick responses . . . to my problemo.
To Bruno - done that, all, checked Everywhere on line & in Help - all say IF I take them off the Cloud, they will "Delete" over 800 of my Photos because they're "low resolution" None of those helped me. And - I'm an Artist & Deliberatly made some as "low Resolution" &n Others are of my bisnonna & famiglia" ca 1865 - 1970s. & Yes I was told that they are "files" with pixels, not Photos. But HOW DARE Apple tell me I can & can't have these on my computer? Many of these were E-mailed to me, by mia famiglia, & are Not on my camera. So those would be lost & some of those who sent them, have since died! So, I can't get them back on my computer.
To muguy I do know that what's on the cloud is also on my Mac - Problem is, as I was trying to fix severe Mail problems, I must have clicked "upload to iCloud" & didn't realize it till it was Too late! Again, how dare Apple tell me they'll delete my Photos from the Desktop. & I don't remember ever doing 'optimize" on my Mac? Gut then, I was so frantically trying to fix mail problems, I may have done that?
2nd] I don't Want anything on the Cloud - they had some documents, data of "Private clients" of mine, that I had deleted from my Computer [but weren't deleted on the cloud?}
When I saw these documents on the Cloud, I deleted every one of them, save 4 genealogy listing docs. & voila, Then, Finder had [& still does] 2 Documents Folders, one empty & there are Duplicates of everything I had in my original Documents Folder? So now I have to search each document, see if it's 'up to date" & trash the old ones?
3rd] I know I can turn off ICloud in settings. But again, 'low resolution photos' would be deleted from desktop" - But since I want Nothing on the Cloud, I don't understand what you're saying below, because I want nada on the Cloud. I want none of it "synced" with the cloud:
"If you further enable desktop and documents (under options ) or other apps to sync, that data also syncs through iCloud.
If you disable desktop and documents after it has been enabled, new desktop and documents folders are created but your previous files are located in iCloud Drive under "desktop" and "documents." Those files can then be dragged back to any location." ?
To léonie Got it, tried that with Photos, but it's slow going with a router; no cable, Fios notavailable here, & 5G costs double what we pay now! So, won't likely be doing that. When I tried to download, cx, photos on the Cloud after 3 hours, it was "still in progress" with photos. & again, Apple will delete "low resolution" from my Desktop? Why?
As to "enough free storage on my Mac" confuses me. 2 things, I've Never had more than 10-25% of "used space" on any of my computers, esp Macs. This computer is 8 GB. Yet Systems shows I have: Mac stuff, 234.58 GB - most I never use, ie Music, Movie [2.59 GB, & Micro-swift 1.42 GB, etc. & some I don't know what they are. [maybe cookies?]. I'd delete these & others, in Systems Storage Applications, but Only after I get all down from the Cloud! But I don't want more of my Photos dragged up there, only to be deleted when I finally dump iCloud access.
I do have 5.2 GB in photos & some MB & 37.34 GB documents [most duplicates I manually deleted from the cloud or from my older version, I like better?] I wish I could get rid of all those ios "perks" that i don't use. Easier said than done.
Thanks for the All your Photo download advice, though. W O W! You really made it clear what I have to do & how. I'll try to download my Photos as you say, & hope it doesn't take as long as it did before! I only hope the previous download process, incomplete as it was, doesn't hinder the next attempt. About syncing to the Cloud, my only other devices are a very OLD iPad, rarely charged or used, & my 2012 Mac, still running well. I'm old fashioned, won't EvEr have a Cell ; > }
mille grazie & vada con dio a tutti
