Documents on iCloud: hot to avoid wasting SSD space on Mac?

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Hi all!
I have my Documents folder synced to iCloud and it works great.
Issue here is that being synced to iCloud, the same folder is synced back to your Mac also on iCloud folder, what duplicates the space being used on your Mac SSD.
Any way of avoiding this?
Being able to automatically sync Documents to iCloud is great, but there should be some option to avoid the folder from being downloaded to iCloud folder to Mac, saving some precious SSD space.

 

[Mike Boreham]

Hi all!
I have my Documents folder synced to iCloud and it works great.
Issue here is that being synced to iCloud, the same folder is synced back to your Mac also on iCloud folder, what duplicates the space being used on your Mac SSD.
Any way of avoiding this?
Being able to automatically sync Documents to iCloud is great, but there should be some option to avoid the folder from being downloaded to iCloud folder to Mac, saving some precious SSD space.

Check "Optimise Mac Storage" in the Apple ID Pref Pane:

This gives macOS permission to replace full size files on your Mac with stub files, saving space. You can't control this process but you can force individual files to become "cloud only" by right click > Remove Download.