#MAC OTHER FILES TAKING UP SPACE HOW TO#

143.6MB seems ridiculous when it's not synching and no apps open. Tempted to close the application and abort the resident process, take it off the startup list and just run it when I need to use and Adobe product. Resuming the file synching to see the effect, the two processes, combined, now using 275MB. All I want to synch is a few watermark files. Just opening CC on desktop resulted in first process dropping to 68MB and new '(2)' process now using 104MB.įile synching shows as 'paused', likely result of a previous attempt to slow the memory drain Adobe was bringing to my life as a light user of PS. Decided to go check the cloud synching prefs mentioned here. I thought it would save the space on my Mac by copying and pasting data into the iCloud Drive folder, but I notice that the hard drive space still decreases. I have iCloud Drive set up and there is an iCloud Drive folder in my Finder. This is more than double any other process showing. Click the Apple menu and choose About This Mac Look under Storage tab to find the Other data on the Mac drive The Other storage is the blue item in new versions of OS X, and the yellow item in the graph on prior versions of Mac OS X, regardless, Other is visible in any modern version of Mac OS X. I have been trying to save hard drive space on my Mac by using iCloud Drive to store my pictures and files. Task Manager showed Adobe Creative Cloud using precisely and constantly 146.3MB and I've not got any apps running.

#MAC OTHER FILES TAKING UP SPACE HOW TO#

Here’s how to check what is taking up space on your hard drive in Windows 10. If you’re an Apple user, jump down to check your disk space on Mac. Closed the Edge browser as all browsers seem to gobble loads of memory. Checking your disk space on Windows 10 takes just a few clicks.

Mac other files taking up space