![]() You just open it like a normal file and you would be able to get access to file C. So you don't have to do anything special to tell it to download that file. When you go to open it, it's going to then go out to the iCloud Service and download that file so then you can open it. It's still in iMac because there's plenty of hard drive space there.īut in your MacBook it appears to be there but it's not really there. Your MacBook notices that it's running short of space. That file C maybe is a large video file like I said and maybe you haven't accessed it in a while. Now what will happen is something like this. What you can do is turn on Optimize Mac Storage. So your iMac has plenty of free space but your MacBook is getting pretty full. Your MacBook, which has a smaller hard drive, is having trouble keeping up with this because there's not as much room. So say, for instance, your iMac has a huge hard drive and your filling it up with files over weeks and months. Now what this does is it allows your Macs to not have a copy of every single file. ![]() You can fine that in System Preferences in iCloud Settings. Now there's an option called Optimize Mac Storage. So file D is linked on all three locations. Delete one and you'll see it deleted on your other machine as well. Make changes to one and you'll see it on your other machine as well. But they'll sync across and will be treated on your MacBook and your iMac as the same files. Again this may happen so fast you may not even notice it or if file C is really big it may take a little while for it to happen. So all the files will be there first and then to your MacBook. This will then all sync to Apple's iCloud Server. In this case B, C, D, and E and C is going to be a really big one. So let's say you create a bunch more files. It just happens if you have iCloud Drive turned on and you saved this file in iCloud Drive. You don't have to do anything to enable this. The change is going to happen in all three places as anything you do to these files is going to sync the File A in your MacBook, your iMac, and Apple's iCloud Server. So you make a change to it on your MacBook and you see the change on your iMac or vice versa. You could say that a copy of it has been put from one place to the other. So you seem to have the same file on your iMac and your MacBook. You would just notice that maybe a few seconds or a minute to two later that file would appear on your MacBook as well. But normally you wouldn't pay any attention to that. You can actually do that by going to and there's a file browser there. Now you're probably not looking in your iCloud Server to see what's up there. But it should pretty quickly go up there and appear there. Now, of course, it depends how fast their connection is. What's going to happen pretty quickly and automatically is that file is going to be uploaded to Apple's iCloud Server. We'll call it File A and they create it on their iMac. But let's say they create their first file. In fact to have Documents and Desktop stored on iCloud Drive. Then there's Apple's iCloud Server and they've set up their Mac to use iCloud Drive. An iMac and a MacBook and there are currently no files on either one. Here's a presentation that explains it all. How does it sync your files between your Macs. Video Transcript: So I've seen a lot of questions online recently from people who don't quite understand how iCloud Drive works. Check out Understanding iCloud Drive and the Optimize Mac Storage Option at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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