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iCloud Space

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Welling

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Hey guys, what is taking up my icloud space? I have no files in icloud drive any idea!
 
M. Gustave said:
It's telling you right there on the left. Documents and app data, and if you backup your phone and/or iPad to iCloud, that takes up space too.
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I dont have any backup in the cloud and documents and app data are only taking 138.1 mb something else is taking my storage
 

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M. Gustave said:
That is a mystery.

The only other thing I can think of is checking on your account that you don't have old devices you got rid of still registered to your login. Maybe they're taking up space. Aside from that, call Apple?
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It is. I even turned off icloud photos and I turned on today and it says 0 photos 0 videos are taking 1gb so Icloud is taking 2gb away and there is nothing in my icloud
 
Are you using iBook cloud syncing? It is pretty new. I’ve had that exact same problem since then.
 
If I was investigating this I would try uploading slightly more than the 3.8GB of free space you apparently have (e.g. 4GB) of data to iCloud Drive to see if it 1) triggers an error saying you are out of space, or 2) allows the account to go over the 5GB allowance, or 3) corrects/resets the free storage measure.
 
Brookzy said:
If I was investigating this I would try uploading slightly more than the 3.8GB of free space you apparently have (e.g. 4GB) of data to iCloud Drive to see if it 1) triggers an error saying you are out of space, or 2) allows the account to go over the 5GB allowance, or 3) corrects/resets the free storage measure.
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Yes, I was thinking the samething. I am going to that to see what happen
 
For a colleague, I recently worked around what might have been the same problem. I didn't keep a note of the details but something visual might jog my memory.

Welling said:
what is taking up my icloud space?
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Can you show what's out of sight? And/or enable scroll bars before taking another screen shot.
 
Brookzy said:
Have you ever backed up an iOS device to iCloud? It could be a backup that was "removed" but with an error, meaning the data is lingering.
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Yes, I used to backup in icloud but I dont do that anymore.
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grahamperrin said:
For a colleague, I recently worked around what might have been the same problem. I didn't keep a note of the details but something visual might jog my memory.



Can you show what's out of sight? And/or enable scroll bars before taking another screen shot.
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here it is
 

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At the Mac: create a new user, log out then log in as that new user.

Connect to iCloud. What's shown?
 
grahamperrin said:
recently worked around what might have been the same problem. I didn't keep a note of the details
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I haven't had the desired memory-jogger so this is partly clutching at straws … try a Disk Utility verification of the OS X startup volume. Does it appear to be OK?

If not apparently OK, then follow up with a safe boot followed by a normal boot.
 
Primejimbo said:
Do you have an old iDevice that still has a back up taking space?
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No.
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grahamperrin said:
I haven't had the desired memory-jogger so this is partly clutching at straws … try a Disk Utility verification of the OS X startup volume. Does it appear to be OK?

If not apparently OK, then follow up with a safe boot followed by a normal boot.
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everything is fine apple better check their iCloud service.
[doublepost=1471123935][/doublepost]https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7634259 check this out
 
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Looking back, you said "I even turned off icloud photos and I turned on today and it says 0 photos 0 videos are taking 1gb"

So I would guess it's iCloud Photo Library at fault.

Are there definitely no photos listed in the photos app on icloud.com?
 
Brookzy said:
Looking back, you said "I even turned off icloud photos and I turned on today and it says 0 photos 0 videos are taking 1gb"

So I would guess it's iCloud Photo Library at fault.

Are there definitely no photos listed in the photos app on icloud.com?
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I believe is iCloud photos fault that happened after I turned off iCloud photos and then turned back on but right now I don't have any photo in iCloud.
 
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