In Storage, by Optimize Storage, Apple is referring to a feature which will strip watched movies and TV shows, and old email attachments, when additional storage space is needed. I’ll get the second of those out of the way before discussing the first. ![]() Open the Storage Tab in About This Mac, and for your startup drive click on the Manage… button, which opens another window in which the second item in the body is titled Optimize Storage. In the iCloud pane, click on the Options… button next to iCloud Drive, at the top of the list, and at the foot of the segue which drops down there’s a checkbox labelled Optimize Mac Storage. Look through iCloud Drive settings in Sierra and High Sierra, and you’ll find two different controls, or maybe Apple thought they were the same. Furthermore, Apple uses the term for two quite different features, which have very different effects on iCloud Drive, so knowing which is being discussed is essential. ![]() Although I hadn’t realised it when I started, there is a very good reason: I can’t get it to work in Sierra 10.12.6. In my explorations of iCloud Drive and its behaviour in macOS Sierra and High Sierra, I have not looked at what Apple calls Optimize Storage.
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