Alina YossimouseHelp! iCloud keeps filling up my storage and I can't get it to be more conservative. brctl evict does not work throws errors when I try to evict individual files, there is no "Remove Download" menu item in Finder when right clicking folders inside iCloud. I'm on the latest Sonoma beta.
there are no snapshots to delete either, purgeable space according to Finder is a few hundred MB
I have about 500GB of files in iCloud that I do not need locally (a backup of an SD card), and I would really really like iCloud to not keep those files around on my drive. These files were uploaded to iCloud over a month ago and have not been purged since
I might just have found the solution:
Optimize Storage has to be off in order to be able to manually evict files, and I had it off in Ventura. Apparently it got turned on in an update but _appeared_ as being turned off. Turning it "on" and off again returned the ability to evict files to me!
Optimize Storage has to be off in order to be able to manually evict files, and I had it off in Ventura. Apparently it got turned on in an update but _appeared_ as being turned off. Turning it "on" and off again returned the ability to evict files to me!
Yep it was the solution, look at all that beautiful space I'm getting back
suddenly 711GB free
Annie@alinanorakari Love glitches like this. Back in the day I had a 360k floppy with 4 gigabytes of bad sectors(I'm surprised DOS 3.3 could even contemplate a number that big) and 60k usable.
Subsequent use confirmed the 60k usable.
If I had to guess it used 32 bit integers(which would have been some effort for an OS that ran on 16 bit systems) and something about which sectors were bad hit some bug in chkdsk and it defaulted to displaying the max value.
These days I'd rerun the test with alternative tools to see what was going on, but this was in the days when even a 2400bps modem was pretty fancy and most people only had one phone line anyways so finding and getting an alternative disk checker was much more of a challenge than it is now.
Subsequent use confirmed the 60k usable.
If I had to guess it used 32 bit integers(which would have been some effort for an OS that ran on 16 bit systems) and something about which sectors were bad hit some bug in chkdsk and it defaulted to displaying the max value.
These days I'd rerun the test with alternative tools to see what was going on, but this was in the days when even a 2400bps modem was pretty fancy and most people only had one phone line anyways so finding and getting an alternative disk checker was much more of a challenge than it is now.
@anniethebruce A device with built in storage I wanted to write a file on showed up one of my computers as a Novell Netware partition with a few hundred Terabytes of storage. I can't even begin to understand the ways in which that enumeration must have gone wrong
@alinanorakari Computers do some really funny things sometimes. IT's not a software glitch but on the job once I had to replace a heat sink on a P4 system. It wasn't the fan, that was fine. IT wasn't touching anything it shouldn't and causign a short with how warped it was. It didn't boot far enough for heat to be a problem. It just did absolutely nothing at all, replace the heat sink, literally just the chunk of milled aluminum, and it fired right up as if nothing was wrong.
I confirmed the problem on site, did the repair, and I'm absoltuely mystified as to what happened and how the phone support figured it out. And it wasn't a run of similar failures, where maybe there's some weird RF effects from the alloy being wrong, it was just the one heat sink.
I confirmed the problem on site, did the repair, and I'm absoltuely mystified as to what happened and how the phone support figured it out. And it wasn't a run of similar failures, where maybe there's some weird RF effects from the alloy being wrong, it was just the one heat sink.
@alinanorakari And it wasn't mounting pressure or anything, it was a clip on style and I did reseat the original just in case. Didn't help. Had to actually replace it. Wish I'd had the time for a closer comparison of the two to maybe find some subtle difference that might have explained what happened.
@anniethebruce oh in that case, nevermind. strange
@anniethebruce huh! as to how the phone support knew, that's mysterious, but I can think of maybe a wonky solder joint that got a galvanic connection again by relieving and re-applying pressure
@alinanorakari Maybe, though reseating the original should have had the same effect, but maybe the original was slightly warped where it met the mounting mechanism? That's acutally not a terrible theory.
Of course that means at some point after I left the job the system probably would have failed again.
Of course that means at some point after I left the job the system probably would have failed again.
@anniethebruce as a relative layperson regarding hardware support I don't see a lot you could have done without more time. May it not have been too many more people's problem
Efi (nap pet) 🦊💤@alinanorakari a bit excessive
@efi they said to scrub real hard, help
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HowToPhil (Phillip R)Stop using the TARDIS to store your data!
@howtophil but doesn't TB stand for telephone booth?
That's just a broken chameleon circuit... and that the TARDIS likes that shape.
@howtophil the units all start making sense now. 1000 TB (Telephone Booth) are 1 PB (Police Box)
1 MB (Mail Box)?
I plan to store my "extra data" as QR codes laser-etched into rock
Thomas Powell.🧻🐴💩@alinanorakari @mos_8502 I guess it’s time to figure out who else’s hard drive got cleaned up in the process
abananabag@alinanorakari Whenever I see negative bits, I think, "Oh! Right, I forgot that Shannon's theory measures 'information' as negative bits." At one point, that made sense to me. Alas, I don't go to the kind of cocktail parties where such things come up and so now it slips my mind. Something about logarithms?