I wrote an opinion piece last month entitled macOS Sierra’s new storage-management tools are a bit of a mess.
Effectively you are switching from a belt-and-braces system, where you have three copies – one local, a second in your local Time Machine backup, a third on iCloud – to just a single copy. That’s way too risky for my tastes, especially given the somewhat flakey reliability record of Apple’s cloud services.
But Mac users may also be running that same risk without even realizing it. Because that first option – to ‘Optimize Mac Storage’ for files stored on iCloud – is on by default in my experience. This means that, for any file on iCloud, your Mac could be deleting files from your Mac without your knowledge or permission. That should never be the case.
I was wrong. Sierra’s storage-management aren’t a ‘bit of a mess’ at all: having just seen what they did to
