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If you need more space on your device, iCloud Drive can help. On your Mac, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences. Click Apple ID, then click iCloud. On macOS Mojave or earlier, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click iCloud. The files that you keep in iCloud Drive use your iCloud storage. And as long as you have enough space in iCloud and on your device, you can store as many files as you like. Store your files in iCloud and save space on your device

(and note that while the information is in the Desktop and Documents support article, the Optimize option is available even if you are using iCloud Drive without turning on Desktop and Documents option) See the information below from Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive - Apple Support To reduce the space needed on the drive, turn on the Optimize storage option. That’s the option I meant above.Īnd lastly, don’t forget to add duplicacy to Full Disk Access in Security settings in System Preferences, otherwise it will be unable to read sensitive folders like Documents and Mail.ICloud Drive is a syncing service and by default keeps a local copy on your Mac drive. I have never tested this because on the machine that runs duplicacy in the iCloud settings I disabled “optimize Mac space” and this forces all files to be always downloaded locally. This is mot a problem if you only access that data from one Mac, but if not - changes to other files made from other machine that are not synced to local one where duplicacy runs will not be backed up.Īctually, now that I typed that I’m not so sure about it: maybe missing files will be downloaded on-demand as duplicacy tries to read to backup them. But this also means that your local backup will only backup those locally synced files, and most of the cloud data will be unversioned. This makes sense if you have 2TB iCloud Drive and only 512GB local SSD. Sorry, there was a typo - confide -> configure.īy default iCloud is configured to “optimize Mac space” or some similarly sounding mode, where only recently used files are downloaded locally as you use them, on demand.

I didn’t understand this at all, sorry for being a noob - could you elaborate? The Library folder is hidden there, you can see it along with other hidden files if you press Command+Shift+period in Finder.

Where is the home folder located? Is it the same as /Users/ or is it different?