How does iCloud Drive Optimization Work?

[SimonAndrew]

so I have 47.58 GB of iCloud Drive stuff on my Mac that I would rather not be there. I guess I assumed iCloud Drive would work like dropbox or something. where I could leave it on the server and download it at will or delete it from my computer at will.

I'm about do some video recording and I don't want to run out of space. while Quicktime is doing a screen recording, and I start running low on space, will my computer automatically start removing files from my local drive to make room for the continual recording?

 

[cynics]

MacOS defaults to keeping files and originals of files that can be compressed. You'll need to turn on Mac storage optimization manually. I recommend doing this through the iCloud preference pane in settings so you can individually select functions you want to store in iCloud.