[Swordmaker]

The upcoming MacOS Sierra can automatically find more space on your boot drive with Optimized Storage. This article outlines how it works. — PING!

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[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Apple is just here to help right?

I would guess that since there are a lot low information Mac users out there, they’ll never know or understand the ramifications of their porn stashes and financial records being sent to the cloud and ALGORE’s doorstep. Now all their files (Whether they like it or not) will be stored in perpetuity instead being erasable by a ball peen hammer to the Hard Drive. Delete will mean nothing.

Centralized data storage, and information gathering about their customers is Apple’s new mantra, don’t you know.

[justlurking]

I would rather Apple apply bzip compression to the files I haven't used, before uploading them to iCloud. So, it would be a three-tiered system:

1. Files I've used in the past month: Uncompressed
2. Files I haven't used in the past month, but my disk is full: Compressed. This can be done by a background task.
3. Files I haven't used in the past month, but my disk is full: upload compressed versions to iCloud.

On average, file compression reduces disk space by about 50%. But, it depends on your set of files: text files compress by about 90%, but JPGs don't compress at all.

Microsoft offers the compression option in the disk cleanup utility.

On an actual disk drive, you'll never notice the difference: the CPU can decompress the file faster than it can be read from the disk. On an SSD drive, you might notice a delay the first time a file is opened in 30 days, but after that it will be uncompressed.

[Albion Wilde]

bump for later

[Moltke]

Most of the file types listed make up a very, very small amount on today’s 3+ TB drives. (epubs eating up your HDD? LOL!) If you’re running out of space, you should be looking at those multi-GB video files instead. (Say, a couple of seasons of Game of Thrones or somesuch.)

Seems like a waste of effort on Apple’s part to me. Or do they only supply a low-capacity HDD with their computers? (If so, WHY?)

[dennisw]

For those too lame and stupid to figure out what they should put in the cloud and if this is really what they want to if their hard drive or SSD is full

IOW deleting some gigabytes of dated material or crap is usually what you want to do

[cynwoody]

Sounds like a solution in search of a problem.