How do you actually delete stuff from iCloud?

My icloud says it's full, so I've deleted my archive, trash and sent items. That should have freed up at least half of my storage (I deleted it on the Web client and it shows empty folders on my iphone). But my MacBook still shows my storage as full. Help!!

That is how you delete data from iCloud. If your storage is not reflecting the change, the only reason I can think of for this would be iCloud storage buffering (see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4873). If that's what's going on, according the the article:
"Your iCloud Storage allocation will readjust itself automatically, but only once another iCloud feature uses the previously allocated space."

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OK. I HAVE FOUND A POTENTIAL FLAW THAT SOMEONE AT APPLE MIGHT WANT TO KNOW ABOUT.
I was able to locate this file, in my finder, by entering the following command (to see hidden files)
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THEN I was able to see the directory that contained the images I wanted to delete. This is the crazy part though. I went into the folder "03" which now appeared in the screenshot as above. In this folder I found multiple subfolders that all had images that I thought I had deleted, and did not want any of the folders. That's not the weird part though. I did not want to delete the folder, just in case it messed anything up, so I deleted a single image. from one of the sub folders and it instantly deleted everything!
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So I went into my notes today to get some information there and poof, nothing, it's blank..... trying to think if I shut off it being backed up or not I went into settings and all my icloud settings were OFF.
Well, I logged into icloud on my computer and all my notes are there.... whew....
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