Hi. I was looking on my iMac under About This Mac>Storage tab and it said this:
I took this screenshot under a different login, because I did have one login, then I created a second profile for an "experiment." When I made my MacRumors account, I always do mixed up letters and numbers for my passwords. I saved it in Safari in the second login, and when I went to make this post under the main login, the password wasn't saved, so now I make MacRumors posts under my second login. The main login is the one with the problem, so the millions of photos are under the main login, so they're listed as "Other Users" on the chart. Sorry for the confusion.
Anyways, I pay for 2TB iCloud storage every month. I upload all my pictures into iCloud, but when I checked my storage, it said that there were 670 GB (not MB). I was so mad, because I take soooooo many pictures, and when I saw that there were copies of them on my 1TB Fusion Drive, I had no idea why, because the whole reason I pay for tons of iCloud storage is because I was trying to prevent this from happening. I had one idea: I store photos in the cloud, but I edit in two apps: Adobe Lightroom (iPhone) and Apple Photos (mac). Does my mac need to download a copy in order for me to edit on there? I tried to delete some photos from the Mac, but it was deleting them on iCloud Photos at icloud.com, too. Also, would upgrading OS to the latest one, macOS Monterey, help anything? I'm running 10.12 Sierra. Not sure if there was a bug in 10.12 that caused this, or if a setting was switched on that shouldn't be, or if it's not possible. I just don't want to run out of space. Last year, I had 400GB left for HDD storage, but now I only have 251GB left! Please help - I really want this to stop. I've also been getting some kernel panics lately, and it always gets fixed when I boot my mac, but from what I've read, it's usually a broken app, virus, or almost full hard drive, but maybe this is a whole other problem I have to solve.
I took this screenshot under a different login, because I did have one login, then I created a second profile for an "experiment." When I made my MacRumors account, I always do mixed up letters and numbers for my passwords. I saved it in Safari in the second login, and when I went to make this post under the main login, the password wasn't saved, so now I make MacRumors posts under my second login. The main login is the one with the problem, so the millions of photos are under the main login, so they're listed as "Other Users" on the chart. Sorry for the confusion.
Anyways, I pay for 2TB iCloud storage every month. I upload all my pictures into iCloud, but when I checked my storage, it said that there were 670 GB (not MB). I was so mad, because I take soooooo many pictures, and when I saw that there were copies of them on my 1TB Fusion Drive, I had no idea why, because the whole reason I pay for tons of iCloud storage is because I was trying to prevent this from happening. I had one idea: I store photos in the cloud, but I edit in two apps: Adobe Lightroom (iPhone) and Apple Photos (mac). Does my mac need to download a copy in order for me to edit on there? I tried to delete some photos from the Mac, but it was deleting them on iCloud Photos at icloud.com, too. Also, would upgrading OS to the latest one, macOS Monterey, help anything? I'm running 10.12 Sierra. Not sure if there was a bug in 10.12 that caused this, or if a setting was switched on that shouldn't be, or if it's not possible. I just don't want to run out of space. Last year, I had 400GB left for HDD storage, but now I only have 251GB left! Please help - I really want this to stop. I've also been getting some kernel panics lately, and it always gets fixed when I boot my mac, but from what I've read, it's usually a broken app, virus, or almost full hard drive, but maybe this is a whole other problem I have to solve.
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