It's so annoying, I want to upload everything, but I don't want to download everything. I want to be able to download one by one like my iPhone, but for some reason it just downloads the lot. I also don't understand why I cannot delete photos locally, but keep them in iCloud.... it misses the whole point of having cloud storage if you still have to keep them hogging up your own storage.
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How do I enable iCloud photo library without downloading everything?
- Thread starter scaramoosh
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Photos App - preferences - iCloud tab - optimize Mac storage instead of download originals. Your Mac will only download full size originals as needed, but will always keep thumbnails. I don’t know it’s process for deciding when to remove the originals again, but it will.