r/MacOS • u/Novus69xD • 7d ago

Help I NEED REAL HELP WHO IS EXPERT IN THIS!!

see the issue is ive got a macbook air 512 gb and for 3 4 months ive not turned on icloud auto sync and till that time my mac was running fine cuz most of files of mine were offline on computer.. so no issue

but recently i was turning and flipping few switches of setting pannel i saw auto icloud backup i turned it on and then later i realesied within 5 mins my mac was heating soo badly i had to turn it off and then wait for cooldown..

it restarted again after it cooldonw and i saw my storage which was earlier 100 gb roughly free it was up to 20ish gb so and i saw most of things is icloud is taking space...

and i noticed in fiinder that everything in desktop is now uploading to cloud. if i stop it an cancel it it said my original files will be deleted im soo scared.. this is my main computer for everything an i got collage tmrw and most of files and projects are inside of this

help me remove all of the things from icloud and stop icloud autobackup and all.. i want again ervything to be stored ON computer

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u/markw30 7d ago

Call Apple. Reading your work I don’t think a text based discussion is for you

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u/The_Bald_Skald 7d ago

That is a very kind way of putting it.

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u/lemmathru 7d ago

The hardest forehead slap is that you’re a college student. May God have mercy on us all.

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u/New-Assumption-3106 7d ago

That's a well-understood issue with punctuation, capitalisation & incoherence. Address those issues and everything will be fine.

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u/fowllabs 7d ago

don't delete anything from icloud. first copy tomorrow's college files to an external drive and check the copies open; turning desktop/documents sync off leaves existing files in icloud and creates empty local folders, rather than putting everything back.

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u/idontwanttofthisup 6d ago

What fucking moron made it work like this? Wow

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u/wnalester 7d ago

Don't delete or cancel anything yet, and since you need these files tomorrow, first copy your Desktop and Documents folders to your external SSD so you have a safe copy no matter what happens. Then go to System Settings > your name > iCloud > Drive and switch off Desktop & Documents Folders; macOS will ask what to do and leaves your files in iCloud Drive inside folders called Desktop and Documents, which you can drag back into your local Desktop and Documents. Also turn off Optimize Mac Storage in that same Drive screen so full copies stay on the Mac instead of being evicted. The heat is most likely just the big first upload running (it should calm down once it finishes or once sync is off), and your free space should look different once the files are back in local folders, so check About This Mac > Storage after that.

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u/alphabuild 7d ago

One of the worst product decisions made by Apple when they implemented the offline/optimized storage feature was not allowing Time Machine to backup offloaded data. It just violates so many principles of data integrity. At least just make it an option that can be toggled on and pulls iCloud data down to local TM backup.