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<blockquote data-quote="IgorP" data-source="post: 1951933" data-attributes="member: 367941"><p>Apparently, I failed to make it clear that I have struggled with this thing for some time. Of course I see the "See All" button. I have clicked on it and every button on every page many times, been to iCloud.com many times, watched multiple YouTube videos, been to the library for books*, etc. Please believe that I have tried everything I can think of before appealing to you guys.</p><p></p><p>Under "See All" I turned everything off except photos, messages and contacts, total less than 2 GB. I decided I do not care about syncing except for those three, and I am extremely well backed up with external drives + Time Machine + thumb drives for my most critical stuff.</p><p></p><p>More background: I foolishly signed up for 200 GB and set everything to sync. Only then -- and this was my own stupidity -- did I learn that iCloud actually takes your files off your computer and leaves you with an alias or token or something.* I got uncomfortable about this and tried to back out: what if I didn't have internet access? Would I have my files?</p><p></p><p>I switched to 50 gigs which caused apoplexy at Apple because they froze everything and proceeded to inundate my phone and computer with messages telling me to upgrade my plan. (I thought they would just dump the extra.) So I switched back to 200 GB in the hope of unfreezing the thing so I could delete the 119 gigs so I could go back to the freebie plan.</p><p></p><p>*No source that I've found tells you how iCloud actually works; eg, "Sequoia for Dummies" devotes less than one page to the entire subject: nothing about what or where iCloud Drive is or what it does, no mention of iCloud.com or iCloud email address. Just the usual raving about how great it is to have everything synced up but nothing about the actual architecture of the thing. </p><p></p><p>After a month of trying, I still can't find how to get to the 119 gigs at Apple and delete them. Nothing at iCloud.com offers me that option (although it would seem that it should). Turning them off under "See All" doesn't get rid of them either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IgorP, post: 1951933, member: 367941"] Apparently, I failed to make it clear that I have struggled with this thing for some time. Of course I see the "See All" button. I have clicked on it and every button on every page many times, been to iCloud.com many times, watched multiple YouTube videos, been to the library for books*, etc. Please believe that I have tried everything I can think of before appealing to you guys. Under "See All" I turned everything off except photos, messages and contacts, total less than 2 GB. I decided I do not care about syncing except for those three, and I am extremely well backed up with external drives + Time Machine + thumb drives for my most critical stuff. More background: I foolishly signed up for 200 GB and set everything to sync. Only then -- and this was my own stupidity -- did I learn that iCloud actually takes your files off your computer and leaves you with an alias or token or something.* I got uncomfortable about this and tried to back out: what if I didn't have internet access? Would I have my files? I switched to 50 gigs which caused apoplexy at Apple because they froze everything and proceeded to inundate my phone and computer with messages telling me to upgrade my plan. (I thought they would just dump the extra.) So I switched back to 200 GB in the hope of unfreezing the thing so I could delete the 119 gigs so I could go back to the freebie plan. *No source that I've found tells you how iCloud actually works; eg, "Sequoia for Dummies" devotes less than one page to the entire subject: nothing about what or where iCloud Drive is or what it does, no mention of iCloud.com or iCloud email address. Just the usual raving about how great it is to have everything synced up but nothing about the actual architecture of the thing. After a month of trying, I still can't find how to get to the 119 gigs at Apple and delete them. Nothing at iCloud.com offers me that option (although it would seem that it should). Turning them off under "See All" doesn't get rid of them either. [/QUOTE]
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