I have a Macbook that is quickly running out of storage space.

Should i increase the drive size or move items (movies) to the cloud? If cloud is the answer, how do i move them?

If by music, you are refering to iTunes purchased music, you can't "put them into iCloud". Basically they are already there . Simply delete them. You can redownload them at any time via the itunes app.

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