My Photo Stream filling up my work harddrive?

In enabled My Photo Stream for my work computer to be able to pull off the occational work photo I take with my phone.  With two small kids, we take a lot of family photos.   Now seems to have 6 months of photo stream photos still on my work laptop.  Isn't My Photo Stream supposed to remove the photos after 30 days? I am afraid to delete the photos as I don't want to lose family photos...  Is there a setting I should use somewhere?  Any recommendations? I thought that My Photo Stream would be a great solution to get the latest images on my laptop, but it's now filling up the harddrive with images.  Help.

if you do not want to fill your Work Computer with Photo Stream images, disable the "Automatic Import" flag. Let "My Photo Stream"  enabled. This way, you can decide, which of the photos you want to import manually from the Photo Stream. With Aotomatic Import enabled, iPhoto will automatically import all photos to monthly project, like "Apr 2014, Photo Stream".  These photos have been downloaded from iCloud and are local copies. You can delete these automatic imports, if you have saved the photos elsewhere. Deleting the monthly projects will not remove them from the other computers, they have been imported to.

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