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iCloud drive and Photos killing my Xfinity data...

The past two months I have seen a dramatic rise in my home data use to the point where I got a data use warning for my 1TB Xfinity limit.  The first time, after spending 10 days away from home, I made it just under the limit.  But today on the 13th of the month, I'm already over 900GB and I'm not sure of what I'm doing.  Sure we use Netflix and my kids watch crap on YouTube but they've been doing that for years.

Now in July, I did go to Iceland and took about 1500 RAW pictures (20MB) but that should only have used about 30GB to upload to iCloud.  I have optimize space on the iMac on and wonder if every time I look at a full-sized image it is downloading it.  Or when I edit and then save it and come back to it later, does that mean I've downloaded it (20MB), edited and saved it resulting in a full upload (now 40MB).  And if I go back and tinker with it again I'm now up to 80MB just for one picture.  So for that I guess I'm going to have to switch to local storage of my photos with local backups.

But another thing that I can't figure out is why I get these iCloud Finder windows that say "Downloading 5 items from iCloud" and it totals something like 4.25GB.  I can't seem to stop it (the "X" doesn't work), nor can I click on it to see exactly what is getting downloaded.

I apparently get two months of overages with Xfinity where I don't get charged, so my thoughts are to download everything since I'm going way over this month and store them locally and then turn iCloud drive off.  Anyone else run into this with ISP data caps?

I don't think that iCloud uploading photos to iCloud is affecting the data limits.  Do you use any kind of streaming service beside Netflix?

Making constant changes by downloading full size photos and doing edits is going to cause a sync.

You might be better off syncing using iTunes. iTunes Help provides instructions for syncing various data.

I don't think we use anything other than Netflix. I rarely use it but my wife and kids do.  

Well going through the photos from the trip is the only thing I've really been doing on the computer and the last three months of data use have gone from 500gb (June) to 950gb (July - month of trip) to 950gb in only two weeks this month.  Supposedly there is a screen that will filter data use by MAC address but I haven't been able to find it. Even then, while I suspect it is Photos and iCloud on my primary iMac, I wish I could tell what's being uploaded and downloaded.

From what I can tell, it is iCloud-related and am now just keeping the original photos and files locally on my iMac.  A few months ago I turned on iCloud and included my desktop and photos.  So in addition to the large amount of photos from my vacation, my desktop had gradually become a mess of large files.  As I worked, I'd see the iCloud drive "pie chart" and it would be downloading files and folders to update them.  I also think that each time when I'd edit a photo and save it the changes were applied and versions were uploaded to iCloud.  Many of these were large (>1GB) so with a 1TB data cap, I can see how I went over.  It was nice to have all of my files on all of my Macs (I have 3 at home and 1 at work), but I'll have to try a significantly purged iCloud drive for awhile and see what difference it makes.

最後更新：2017-08-20 21:52:43

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