Hi, It sounds like your computer has quite a number of documents on both your Desktop and in your Documents folder. To clarify, when iCloud Drive is checked, and with optimize your Mac Storage checked, your Mac manages the storage on your local computer so that it doesn't use up as much space. So, for example, my MacBook Pro has a 512 GB SSD drive, but my iCloud storage plan is a 2 RB plan, four times the size of my MBP. I currently use up about 1 TB of that space which all is easily accessed via my iCloud Drive on my Mac. You can do the math yourself to see that I have more storage in iCloud than I have space for on my Mac, but that doesn't matter as the files I need will be downloaded when I request access to them. Those that I use frequently are kept on the Mac and those that are not, are left up in iCloud not using up space locally. This managing of the files is probably what's using up data through your ISP. Keeping this in mind, when you turn off iCloud Drive, those files that are up in the Cloud that need to be downloaded are then downloaded to your Mac and placed in that iCloud Archive folder you've mentioned. Depending on the speed of your ISP connection, and the processing speed of your Mac will determine how fast this archiving process will proceed. Basically, I'm saying that you probably just need to be patient and let things complete. It may take quite a while if your ISP speed is not very quick. Once it is done, iCloud Drive will turn itself off. FYI, that data will remain up in iCloud unless you either Trash it first while iCloud Drive is enabled, or delete it using the web interface at iCloud.com.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 1, 2018, at 07:45, Stan ZA <[email protected]> wrote: Hi One and All, I am wanting to turn my “iCloud Drive” off, as my “ISP’s” data usage has gone through the roof, by four or five times higher then ever before. Every time I go to “Internet Accounts” and click on “iCloud Drive” to switch “on” to “off”, it warns me that I will lose all my “documents” in Documents” and “folders” on “Desktop”, which I sure don’t want. I therefore click “save a copy on this Mac”, the process starts and half an hour later at only 15%, it just stops. When I go back to “Internet Accounts” “iCloud Drive” still shows as being “on”. If I then go to my “Home Folder” there is a new “folder” named “iCloud Drive Archive”, which appears to have the “documents” and “Desktop folders” there but I can not check all 1000 files quickly. I do not have any automatic update set, nor any automatic downloads, the only change I have made is, I added another user to my MacBook Pro. Is there any “Logs” or “Apps” I could or should take a look at, to shed some light on my problem. My “ISP Routers” are secure [I believe], and I have never found any unauthorized “logins”. Cheers Stan ZA [email protected] -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
