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Purgeable macos sierra7/14/2023 ![]() ![]() 162GB.Īt this point, I was essentially forced to use the Optimize option to try to get my drive back. It did this so thoroughly that I couldn’t even take this screenshot initially, as it told me there was no room to do so. Sure enough, iCloud Drive had completely filled up my SSD. The first point at which I became aware of the fact was when I sat down to enjoy a cup of Earl Grey in a coffee shop and work on my SF book: my MacBook Air immediately complained that its SSD was full. “What the … ?” I asked myself. As before, there is no warning that it has done so. But it appears that Sierra doesn’t just switch it on by default when you first upgrade – it also switches it back on again when you do a dot update. Optimize Mac Storage was switched off on both machines. My main machine is my heavily-upgraded 17-inch MacBook Pro. That has 2TB of SSD storage, My MacBook Air is my portable writing machine, used mostly in coffee shops. I don’t keep many documents on it, so I was using well under 100GB of its 256GB SSD. Sierra’s storage-management aren’t a ‘bit of a mess’ at all: having just seen what they did to my MacBook Air, seemingly prompted by the update to 10.12.1, they are a complete and utter disaster … This means that, for any file on iCloud, your Mac could be deleting files from your Mac without your knowledge or permission. Because that first option – to ‘Optimize Mac Storage’ for files stored on iCloud – is on by default in my experience. That’s way too risky for my tastes, especially given the somewhat flakey reliability record of Apple’s cloud services.īut Mac users may also be running that same risk without even realizing it. I wrote an opinion piece last month entitled macOS Sierra’s new storage-management tools are a bit of a mess.Įffectively you are switching from a belt-and-braces system, where you have three copies – one local, a second in your local Time Machine backup, a third on iCloud – to just a single copy. ![]() Documents from your other Mac(s) will be found inside a folder with the same name as the Mac. One thing to note if you have more than one Mac: when you switch on iCloud drive, all of the files and folders that were on your desktop will be moved to a Desktop folder inside iCloud Drive – see Apple’s support document on this. I’m unsure exactly which update did so, but everything is fine again in macOS 10.12.4. Update: Apple subsequently fixed the issue. ![]()
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