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1. #Is their a way for all files to be on icloud and not the mac internal storage download#
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This means that all the up- and downsides from the above paragraphs will carry over to this tool – sometimes, files will re-download after a while against your will, etc. Now to be clear, this extension doesn't do anything different than the Terminal command, all it does is basically offering the evict-command as a Toolbar command in Finder so you don't have to go through the Terminal-path each time.

#Is their a way for all files to be on icloud and not the mac internal storage free#

(2) The second possibility is via a neat little free Finder extension called iCloud Control. Like I said, for most people this probably isn't a big deal, but it's worth mentioning. This means that Finder previews might just show a blank file page and that Spotlight won't be able to index the content of these files. The other "issue" is (though for most people it won't be an issue) that this also seems to delete most of the metadata of a file, which (I believe) won't be deleted if iCloud's intelligent "optimize storage"-algorithm removes the file on its own. Usually it ends up working after sometimes entering the command multiple times, but it's still not perfect. This is most likely because iCloud's intelligent algorithm for optimizing storage will take over sometime after you've entered that command and will decide that the file was used so recently that it should be stored locally.

#Is their a way for all files to be on icloud and not the mac internal storage download#

Firstly, it doesn't always seem to work forever – while it will always instantly remove a file for me, some sturdy files would just randomly decide to download again a short while later, which is especially annoying with large files that are gigabytes in size and are suddenly hugging your internet connection. Now there are some downsides to this, however. This does require the "Optimize Storage" option to be turned on. if you enter the path of a folder, it will recursively remove the local copies of all files inside (but keep them in iCloud). This also works for entire locations, i.e.

The command brctl evict name (with name being replaced with the path of the file or location (assuming it's something within your iCloud Drive, of course)) will remove the local copy of that file but keep storing it in iCloud Drive, available to re-download at anytime (with the little download-arrow next to the file in Finder). While Apple doesn't officially want you to be able to choose which files iCloud keeps locally and which it doesn't, there are currently two ways of getting around that restriction (kind of, at least):