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Originally Posted by Superman

I have a MacBook Air and I bought plenty-o-storage on iCloud. I started copying music files to iCloud, and there they are on iCloud Drive, but they are taking up space on the hard drive, which is now full. 121GB on the HD, which is now full. 80GB copied, which apparently are on the HD. Again, "iCloud Drive" is where I can now find these music files, and there is 2TB of storage on iCloud, but now i cannot copy any more files (80GB already copied) because the HD is full. Computers piss me off.

My wife had a similar issue. You set it up to use the cloud, but then all of your devices seem to sink both ways (up and down) with the cloud. I'm sure it's BS that Apple uses to try to get folks to buy devices with more/max storage. But to me, if I'm using the cloud, then it should be saving me local storage space, not exacerbating the problem because now all of the crap on all of my devices are local on every device.

I think for my wife with her old phone, I uploaded all pics, turned off icloud for pics from her phone and then deleted all of the pics from her phone. We've since replaced our phones, and got 1 year old NIB phones at a huge discount that also happened to have max storage (512G) which should save us from that sort of issue in the future, at least for a while.