In iCloud Drive settings on your mac there is an Optimize Storage checkbox that, if checked, will store the full contents of iCloud Drive locally, but only if there's enough space. If you are looking to recover some of that local storage space without selecting that option, fortunately it is easy to do. First, you'll open [...]
Tag Archives: storage
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Nov
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Apple gives iCloud users 5 GB of free storage, but that fills up fast with iCloud Photo Library, iOS backups, iBooks, and more. Until iOS 11 and macOS 10.13 High Sierra, each person in a family had to buy extra iCloud space separately. Happily, Apple has now made it so everyone in a Family Sharing […]
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Nov
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There are two basic types of storage devices available today: hard disk drives and solid-state drives. For the lowest cost per gigabyte, you can’t go wrong with a hard drive, and they come in truly massive sizes—up to a whopping 8 terabytes. However, they’re relatively slow. For speed, you want a solid-state drive, also known […]
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Did you know that your Mac requires 10% of free hard drive space to work properly? With new machines coming with smaller and smaller hard drives (256GB is the new standard…which isn’t a whole of space), staying within 90% may be hard to do.
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Thunderbolt technology was first designed by Intel back in 2011. It combines PCI Express and Display port into one, allowing for fast data and power to be transmitted over the wire. Thunderbolt has changed a lot in the last few years, and it has great impacted how people do business, especially in the graphic design […]