HT4847 how can I free up space in my icloud???

I am out of space in my icloud due to a ton of pictures that my wife took without knowing that they were being backed up. How can I manage my icloud and delete unwanted pics??????/

This article explains options for managing your iCloud space: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4847.  For photos, don't rely on iCloud to back these up.  Import them to your computer and then delete them from your phone as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083.  Doing so will reduce the size of your iCloud backup, thereby reducing the amount of storage it takes in your iCloud account.

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    You should be importing your pics/videos to your computer as you would a digital camera.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083

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    Claiming that it can be done, but not telling him how is not all that helpful. We were dying for you to share the steps that he must take.
    http://www.cultofmac.com/99990/ios-5-allows-users-to-delete-music-directly-from- iphoneipad/
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  • I am at capacity How can I free up space but not delete music

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    Unless you are attempting to download a sizable file, 2.7 GB should be more than enough to continue fucntioning. Try a reset: Simultaneously hold down the Home and On buttons until the device shuts down. Ignore the off slider if it appears. Once shut down is complete, if it doesn't restart on it own, turn the device back on using the On button. In some cases it also helps to double click the Home button and close all apps from the tray BEFORE doing the reset.

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    How can i free up space on my start up disk to install the OS X Mavericks software?

    For information about the Other category in the Storage display, see this support article.
    Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
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    Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space. Do the same in other applications, such as Aperture, that have an internal Trash feature.
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    If you're using Time Machine to back up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of files you've recently deleted. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as Backups. The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself.
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    Proceed further only if the problem isn't solved by the above steps.
    ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
    Back up all data now.
    If you have more than one user account, make sure you're logged in as an administrator. The administrator account is the one that was created automatically when you first set up the computer.
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    Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
    ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
    ☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
    Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
    The application window will open, eventually showing all files in all folders, sorted by size with the largest at the top. It may take a few minutes for ODS to finish scanning your files.
    I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means. When in doubt, leave it alone or ask for guidance.
    When you're done with ODS, quit it and also quit Terminal.

  • HT1338 How can i free up space on hd?

    how can i free up space on my hd/

    Begin by dragging your files to  another drive. Then delete those files on your internal drive.
    As soon as you have enough space freed up download and run OmniDisksweeper to find what's hogging your disk space.

  • How do i free up space in my icloud and make sure ALL of my photos and contacts are saved to the cloud?

    how do i free up space in my icloud and make sure ALL of my photos and contacts are saved to the cloud?
    because my app is running slow and i know I have things saved to my cloud and cant see them from the website

    you can download icloud control panel ,delete  your old backup

  • HT4847 how can i store ms office files in iCloud?

    how can i store ms office files in iCloud?

    Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
    To store Office files on iCloud, you need Numbers, Keynote or Pages, depending of the files you want to upload (Word, PowerPoint or Excel).
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  • HT4847 How can I delete old backups on my iCloud so that I can just backup my latest things?

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    Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
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  • How can I free up space in icloud

    I received an email stating that my iCloud storage is full. I have a iPad and iPhone. I've synced my phone with my macbook, deleted photos, deleted apps, etc. My phone shows 3.1 GB of storage used. How can I see what's backed up to iCloud and free up space?

    You can get an idea of what is using your iCloud storage by going to Settings>iCloud>Storage & Backup>Manage Storage.  Tapping your backup here will give you additional information about what is using space in your iCloud backup.
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  • How can I free up space and send to icloud?

    How to free up space on ipad & send to icloud?

    You can delete downloaded apps (which will also delete their content) from your iPad by pressing and holding one of them on your iPad's homescreen until they start to shake, and then tapping the 'x' on them to delete them - press the home button when you've finished deleting apps.
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  • How can I free up space on my macbook air?

    I have already deleted local versions of movies and music after backing them up to iCloud. I deleted all the games too except for Alpine Crawler.
    I am giving this notebook to a friend and I want to clean all of my stuff off before resetting it to factory settings. No matter what I do I can't seem to free up space on the HD.

    Giving away / Selling your Mac / Resetting  the computer to the factory condition
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5189
    http://www.thesafemac.com/how-to-prepare-your-mac-for-sale/
    Best.

  • How can I free up space by deleting old photos from i photo? Have deleted files from iPhoto but that does not seem to free space- is it stored at a different site?

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    To delete photos from iPhoto:
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    If space is an issue you can run a Library from an external drive:
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    1. Quit iPhoto
    2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
    3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
    4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
    Or move part of the Library to an external drive.
    Regards
    TD

  • How can I free up space on my iMac without losing my music?

    I have 1TB on my IMac but it's almost all used up how can I wipe everything except my music and movies? I also want to keep a few essential apps but don't want to go through the hassle of erasing one by one. Can anyone please help? Thank you.

    See "Storage drive" here:
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     Most commonly used backup methods explained

  • HT4847 How can I delete kindle books from the iCloud.

    How can I delete a kindle book stored in the iCloud?

    Login to Amazon then from "your Account" select "your cloud drive" from drop down list.  This will bring the list of file names such as Kindle books or docs, Videos, Pictures, Documents etc.  Click on the Kindle docs then select the item you no longer need and use the "delete" that is listed on the bottom of the screen.  Done.

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