Apart from the iCloud fiasco, I very much like these kind of programming. We generally lost the fun of it try to make enterprise/corporate programs, we forgot to use them for personal tasks.
Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
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Re: Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
#72Okay, so it could be a bug, but it is possible that iCloud is secretly storing more than one version of the file in some cases? (After all, Apple does similar things with other media files.) The example given at the end is interesting: > So iCloud says the video is 128MB, I download it and the video is actually 48MB, and my free storage increases by ~170MB when I deleted it. Interesting! This suggests that iCloud isn…
That's probably indeed the case, but it doesn't excuse it. When you buy a hard drive or USB stick, you get a certain amount of GBs to use as you please. If you put a 1GB file on it your free space decreases by 1GB (yes this is filesystem dependent and you might lose a few KBs for metadata, but the choice of filesystem is up to you and not mandated by the storage decide). It doesn't matter that the NAND controller pro…
Don't get the complaints, you can use different messaging apps, that don't do that to your oCloud
Re: Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
#73Additionally, if you take a 4MB photo and add it to a shared album with 5 people, those 5 people all have to use up 4MB from their storage. Instead of reusing the same image and having pointers to it, it looks like it's "copied".
Re: Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Been getting the same warning emails (200GB in my case). So I tried this now, but it doesn't seem to highlight anything after pasting in the gist into Chrome. Does it work for you?
If you have a Windows machine lying around, the iCloud app lets you download all your media out of iCloud Photos. Once it's all on Windows it's a lot easier to find the largest files!
You can also do that with Photos (leaving "optimize storage" off) and downloading all to your Mac, I believe. I haven't actually done yet that since it is quite a large download.
Re: Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Been getting the same warning emails (200GB in my case). So I tried this now, but it doesn't seem to highlight anything after pasting in the gist into Chrome. Does it work for you?
>after pasting in the gist into Chrome. No idea what this means so can't tell you whether it works for me
The original article had a JavaScript snippet you post into the browser to do the highlighting for you.
Re: Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
#76Thanks for the idea/solution!
I converted this into a TamperMonkey/Greasemonkey script. Also added a feature to "hide" all elements that do not match the threshold.
Re: Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
#77I kind of hate opaque cloud solutions like this, because their storage usage is inscrutable and their interfaces are basically never optimized to help you clear things out. Whether that’s intentional and malicious or just not a priority, I don’t really care, I just want to be in control of the stuff I’m using. I have a very similar issue with iMessage in iCloud, and unlike photos, there’s no web interface. You have t…
I have the same problem on iMessage. iCloud reports 7+gb of message storage being consumed, but each of my devices and my top conversations only report 1-2gb of content. I haven't found a way to force sync the missing content so I'm stuck paying the $1/month plan.
Re: Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
#78Additionally, if you take a 4MB photo and add it to a shared album with 5 people, those 5 people all have to use up 4MB from their storage. Instead of reusing the same image and having pointers to it, it looks like it's "copied".
That doesn't make sense to me. Apple says here that photos in a shared album do not count against your iCloud storage.
Re: Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
#79With the iCloud desktop app for windows I'm able to sort by size...
Re: Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's weird, so you can only go from 5 GB -> 50 GB -> 2 TB?
Sorry, I meant I never got any additional increment options, even when I was at 200GB. So I jumped 5, 50, 200, 2000.
Right, it's the same here. The poster clarified what they actually experienced.