In an effort to clean up my iCloud Photos, remove unnecessary photos and possibly be able to drop down a storage tier, I exported and then deleted quite a bit of photos and videos from my library. I deleted over a thousand photos, plus deleted several dozen of the larger holiday videos I hadn't watched in a while. After backing everything up to an external drive, I made sure to permanently delete everything in the recently deleted folder.
However when viewing the storage used in iCloud settings (on my laptop from which I deleted everything, my iPad, and my iPhone), the storage used by photos did not go down. Selecting all the remaining photos in the Mac Photos app then selecting "Get Info" shows a total of 39.02GB, iCloud however shows 60GB used. I have just over half a gigabyte in the "Hidden" folder, so no major reason for the discrepancy there. Total iCloud data usage was about 62GB before this process, and after!
It's been about a week since I started this process with no change in used iCloud Photos data usage. No idea on the original amount of data I deleted, didn't think to check before deleting, saw no reason to. I'm just confused about why there is such a discrepancy between what two difference processes are reporting. And no, this is not just confusion about local Mac storage; local storage shows 2.34 GB used, about what I would expect for having "Optimize Mac Storage" selected in Photos settings.
I've even tried some "fixes" I saw online; set computer date several months before or ahead of actual time to double check recently deleted album, disable then reenable Photos being saved in iCloud, restarts on other devices of course; no change.
A bug? Some hidden hidden photos? Something else I've missed? Or do I just need to be more patient for Apple's servers to catch up?! Open to suggestions, thanks for the help.
However when viewing the storage used in iCloud settings (on my laptop from which I deleted everything, my iPad, and my iPhone), the storage used by photos did not go down. Selecting all the remaining photos in the Mac Photos app then selecting "Get Info" shows a total of 39.02GB, iCloud however shows 60GB used. I have just over half a gigabyte in the "Hidden" folder, so no major reason for the discrepancy there. Total iCloud data usage was about 62GB before this process, and after!
It's been about a week since I started this process with no change in used iCloud Photos data usage. No idea on the original amount of data I deleted, didn't think to check before deleting, saw no reason to. I'm just confused about why there is such a discrepancy between what two difference processes are reporting. And no, this is not just confusion about local Mac storage; local storage shows 2.34 GB used, about what I would expect for having "Optimize Mac Storage" selected in Photos settings.
I've even tried some "fixes" I saw online; set computer date several months before or ahead of actual time to double check recently deleted album, disable then reenable Photos being saved in iCloud, restarts on other devices of course; no change.
A bug? Some hidden hidden photos? Something else I've missed? Or do I just need to be more patient for Apple's servers to catch up?! Open to suggestions, thanks for the help.