Icloud Remove
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I just went into my iCloud folder from my mac because I needed to check the available space. I found out that some of my files have been downloaded to my mac (optimization is off, all of my files are only in iCloud) and the "remove download" button disappeared (I checked my iPhone for the same problem but seems ok).
Same here. Files and Folders in iCloud cannot be evicted anymore since macOS Sonoma update. The 'remove download' button (available before with Option+right click in Finder on the iCloud related files/folders) disappeared. Even the Terminal command that could be used doesn't work anymore. Backup software (like ChronoSync ... they are aware of the problem) that allowed to backup selectively files and folders to the iCloud can't evict files after upload anymore.
So the functionality to evict files/folders on local machines is gone and this will hopefully be fixed by Apple soon. Or else how do new storage plans like 6TB and 12TB make any sense when your data is doubled and put into the Library>'iCloud Drive' folder without being evicted after upload to iCloud ??? Apple you can do better, because 6TB and 12TB storage plans are not just here for syncing data (documents, desktop and download folders) between Mac and iOS devices.
I did as you figured out and I turned on the option "Optimise Mac Storage". And yes, I was able to evict all the files that I wanted in selected folders with the 'Remove download' button that got back. I sometimes had to select subdirectories and their content as the 'Remove download' did not reliably populate on the whole directories tree.
I now turned off the 'Optimise Mac Storage' option. But with that, as we know now, the 'Remove download' button disappeared again and nothing can get evicted locally. With that new uploads to iCloud will reside and get doubled on the Mac's Library folder again.
@muguy: You state this opinion that iCloud is 'only' a synchronization service for a very long time in your various posts. Which might have been true in the past. But now you should tell us what a 6TB or even a 12TB iCloud plan that Apple offers since a few months is designed to? I guess your argument doesn't hold anymore, right? You can't buy a Mac with an internal boot drive of 12TB or even 24TB from Apple and that would be needed to make sense for such an iCloud plan. 6TB to backup equals (needs) 12TB internal HD as every bit sent to iCloud is doubled in the library folder of your Mac (if not evicted after transfer to the iCloud).
I turned on the option "Optimise Mac Storage" from the settings and now remove download is back! Since I have 40GB left on my disc I cannot understand if optimise works like it used to before, but I was able to remove all downloads from my folder and I don't see something downloading without permission (well, except all
What you describe is not an issue. iCloud is a synchronization service, not offline storage. If you use iCloud Drive on your Mac, anything that you sync remains on your device. Should you elect to optimize, your least accessed/largest files may be removed to iCloud only should space become needed on your Mac. Electing remove download may move a file to iCloud, albeit possibly only temporarily. iCloud will always try to sync data to your Mac if possible; a process over which the user has no control.
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So I updated a machine with a bunch of files on the Desktop and in the Documents folder, and when I upgraded it asked me if I wanted to store these folders on iCloud as well. I hit YES and it began trying to upload everything. Now, I guess I had a large file in one of the folders because the total upload was almost 9GB (i have 200GB of available iCloud space). It failed the upload and has just been stuck on 57kb of 8.89GB uploaded for over a day. I've tried restarting and it hasn't moved. I haven't found a way to quit it either. This has been making my machine incredibly slow and has caused the fans to speed up like crazy. Anytime I try to access an Open or Save dialog, the app I'm using crashes, whether it's Preview, Xcode, Photoshop, or even Safari.
So I went to the iCloud system preferences and unchecked the "Desktop and Documents" item. I figured it wouldn't delete things that were still locally saved on my disk. But I was wrong and now every single file on both my Desktop and in my Documents is gone. Not in the trash, nowhere to be found. Gone.
Can any one help me with this? Has anyone experienced something similar? The iCloud upload is still there and still isn't progressing at all (not sure what its trying to upload anyways since the files were all deleted). My computer is unusable and my files are all gone. I have a Time Machine backup from last week, but I will not have access to for almost 2 more weeks so if there's a way to recover my files sooner and kill this upload task, that would be amazing.
I had the same thing happen to me. I unchecked the iCloud Drive Settings and then rebooted. When it came back up, it was still trying to upload the files. I think the process was called "bird". You can check in the Activity Monitor. Once I dragged all the files out of the /iCloud Folder (local) back to my documents, then I let it percolate and things ended up being okay.
I think Apple needs to put a bit more of a delay in that (e.g. maybe two acceptance boxes). When I clicked on the yes box, I completely forgot that I had several gigs of files in both my corporate and personal Dropbox folders as well as my Onedrive folder. It was the Ondrive yakking at me saying the "default folder has moved" that tipped me off to what was going on. Moving those folders created a bit of a "***" moment. It's all good and the experiece I hope will help others as well as Apple really understand the complexity of moving the contents of the Documents folder to the cloud.
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