Hi everyone!
My home data consumption have went thru the roof for the past 2 months, and I have finally tracked down (using the Traffic Analyser from the Router) the culprit to be the additional iMac which was introduced to my home at about the same time. Its my first Mac OS - which I absolutely loved, minus the excessive data consuming bit. Its literally consuming hundreds of GB per day without me using the internet (for streaming, downloading, etc), mail or being on the iMac!
Did a clean installation when macSierra was launch. Reinstall everything from ground up, instead of upgrading it to the new version.
I have tried the following so far:
Is there a way for us to control the size of email cache? This option was removed in OS X Mavericks. Im currently on Mac Sierra 10.12.2. The only thing I have been able to do for now is to tell Mail not to automatically download my attachment. I fear the consumption will continue until all of my email has been cached. (I have taken the liberty to purge my emails via backend, & controlling the amount of message Mail downloads via server settings on my email server)
Having said that, my current email folder is only using 312MB (via ~/Library on Finder > Go > Mail) So it doesn't explain where does the hundreds of GB went to? So it doesn't
Currently, the only solution is to turn off Wifi on iMac when I am not using it. Would ideally like to fix this problem in a more permanent manner.
Any help or feedback would be much appreciated.
P/S: Data consumption on my Activity Monitor > Network image below is lower than usual today as I have reached my limit for my bandwidth usage and its currently being throttled by my ISP. I left the iMac running over night and it chocked up 4GB, and between then it has gone up to 5.13GB. I am expecting it to be much higher this evening even without being on the iMac. If I topped up my data, it will usually deplete the data very quickly.
Regards,
J
My home data consumption have went thru the roof for the past 2 months, and I have finally tracked down (using the Traffic Analyser from the Router) the culprit to be the additional iMac which was introduced to my home at about the same time. Its my first Mac OS - which I absolutely loved, minus the excessive data consuming bit. Its literally consuming hundreds of GB per day without me using the internet (for streaming, downloading, etc), mail or being on the iMac!
Did a clean installation when macSierra was launch. Reinstall everything from ground up, instead of upgrading it to the new version.
I have tried the following so far:
- Disable iCloud Drive
- Disable iCloud Photo Library/My Photo Stream/ iCloud Photo Sharing
- Disable Automatically check for update/Background upgrade downloading under System Pref > App Store.
- Turned on Firewall
- Turned off Spotlight Suggestion & Mail/Message under SpotLight Preferences
- Unchecked "automatically download all attachments" options under Mail.
- DropBox is under observation and I have switch it to Manual Sync. I have also tried to disable it completely.
- Used WPA2 with a complex password setting with Cap, Hypen, Small Letter, Numbers. (I can also verified via my router that I don't have
- Ran MalwareBytes & system appear to be clean.
- Disable iCloud completely. Same result
- Removed my networks in System Preferences/ Network. Then add ethernet and wifi again. Profile user account is new.
- Disable OCSP & CRL Service under KeyChain Access Preference
Is there a way for us to control the size of email cache? This option was removed in OS X Mavericks. Im currently on Mac Sierra 10.12.2. The only thing I have been able to do for now is to tell Mail not to automatically download my attachment. I fear the consumption will continue until all of my email has been cached. (I have taken the liberty to purge my emails via backend, & controlling the amount of message Mail downloads via server settings on my email server)
Having said that, my current email folder is only using 312MB (via ~/Library on Finder > Go > Mail) So it doesn't explain where does the hundreds of GB went to? So it doesn't
Currently, the only solution is to turn off Wifi on iMac when I am not using it. Would ideally like to fix this problem in a more permanent manner.
Any help or feedback would be much appreciated.
P/S: Data consumption on my Activity Monitor > Network image below is lower than usual today as I have reached my limit for my bandwidth usage and its currently being throttled by my ISP. I left the iMac running over night and it chocked up 4GB, and between then it has gone up to 5.13GB. I am expecting it to be much higher this evening even without being on the iMac. If I topped up my data, it will usually deplete the data very quickly.
Regards,
J
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