And scary in terms of the risk of losing unbacked up documents, photos, etc. That is the opposite of what I want, which to get everything back on the Desktop and Documents Folder on my own HD!Ĭan someone please guide me to a protocol for undoing storage optimization and safely getting all of my file back onto my HD? folder on this Mac and will remain available in iCloud Drive." "If you continue, items will be removed from the Desktop and the Documents When I try to start undoing this by, for example, going into iCloud Drive preferences and unclicking "Desktop & Documents Folders," I get this VERY FRIGHTENING warning: I have now cleaned up my HD and freed up more than 80 GB of space, and want to undo all of that.īut I am afraid to do it, because I no longer know what is on my HD, what is in only iCloud or iDrive (nor do I know what the difference is between them), or only on my HD, or what is on both or on all three. I also don't know if Time Machine and Backblaze are able to make complete backups with Optimize Storage turned on. Now I am stuck with not being able to quickly open most files on my computer, or send attachments without long waits, or see many of my photos and albums in Photos, etc., and am totally dependent on having a super good internet connection for my MacBook to work well. I am very very sorry that rather when my MacBook HD started getting full, I set up iCloud and Optimize Storage with "Desktop and Documents" and Photos, rather than going through my HD and deleting unneeded large files to free up space. How to safely undue "Optimize Storage" in iCloud or iDrive on MacBook running OS Catalina Hello: (Macbook Pro was purchased in May 2018 / running Mojave 10.14) OR, if there is not enough room on my MacBook Pro, do I risk losing 10 years of writing into the ethers by doing this?Īssistance would be so very much appreciated! Thank you. THE REAL QUESTION: Is it safe to simply UNCHECK the (oh, how I wish I'd never checked it!!) "optimize mac storage" box, i.e., will all of my files then be downloaded back onto my Macbook? I'm also totally fine with turning that off if necessary/possible. I also have my Documents and Desktop being synched iCloud-which would be OK, as long as the files remain on my Macbook. MY SPECIFIC QUESTION: How do I safely get my data back onto my Macbook? It sounds like (from others' questions) that there is a risk of losing files if there is not enough room on your Macbook.Ĭurrently, iCloud says I am using 155 GB (of 200 GB total)Ĭurrently, my MacBook says that I have 300 GB available out of 500 GB. I didn't understand that clicking "Optimizing Mac Storage" would pull documents OFF of my Macbook Pro, so that I cannot access them if I am not online. ![]() ![]() I do not want my documents to be only in iCloud. (Previous title was: "How do I SAFELY turn off "Optimize Mac Storage.") I meant safely for my files and folders! NOTE: I updated the title from yesterday's post to better describe my question.
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