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Why do my photos take up so much space when I have iCloud?
Store your photos and videos in iCloud Your photos and videos are stored on your device in their original, high-resolution version. This means that they use a lot of space on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Why are iCloud photos taking space on my Mac?
iCloud Photos is a syncing service, not a photo storage service. It keeps full-resolution copies of your photos and videos, but copies also remain in the libraries on every device (Mac, iPhone, iPad) connected to the cloud version. Adding photos to one device adds them to the cloud library, then to other devices.
How do I store photos in iCloud instead of Mac?
In Photos, choose Photos > Preferences > iCloud. Check the iCloud Photos box and then select Optimize Mac Storage. If iCloud Photos was already enabled, macOS will only for sure retain thumbnails of images and videos. However, if you’re turning it on for the first time, Photos will upload all locally stored images.
How do I store photos on iCloud and not Mac?
If you don’t want any of your iCloud pictures on your computer. Go to System Preferences > iCloud and turn off iCloud Photo Library. If you click on the Options button in the category, you can turn off single parts of iCloud and keep others on.
Why does my iCloud Drive take up so much space?
When you turn on iCloud Drive on your Mac or install it on your PC, and enable iCloud Photo Library in Photo Settings, then the photos and videos will be downloaded to your computer . All the full-resolution images will be also stored on your computer. This gets your iCloud Drive taking up too much storage of the local drive on your Mac and PC.
Why does my photo library take up so much space?
Dense images with lots of pixels require larger files, while sunset photo files can be “squeezed” a little more. iPhones require less space for the same photos over an iPad. An iPad Air less space than the larger iPd Pro. Users here report getting their library down to 10% of its size, but that is not an assured target.
How much CPU does the iCloud Photo Library use?
I’ve just noticed that even though no photo’s are being synced and there is zero file activity (as checked in task manager and performance manager), the iCloud Photo Library (32 bit) application (iCloudPhotos.exe) is constantly taking on average 15% of my CPU. Does anyone know how to fix this?
How to get rid of iCloud Photo Library?
Process Explorer says “iCloud Photo Library is waiting for an E/A event to finish…” So finally I decided to de-install iCloud, delete all the directories (with the photos and also the AppData\\Local\\Apple Inc\\… where the info about the photo library is stored). Then I re-installed iCloud and started photo sync from the scratch.