Using icloud drive as a media storage site

i use both Adobe lightroom and iphoto ( now photos) for my pictures. Thus they comprise the bulk of my hard drive storage use. I am wondering if I can just store these in the icloud drive and erase them from my hard drive to free up space. I also have an external disc that I use for this purpose but I thought it seems really much easier if this would be possible. Thanks!

Putting a Photos Library on iCloud Drive will corrupt it. For the Photos Library use iCloud Photo Library (Beta). If you enable "Optimize Storage", the original image files will be stored in iCloud and not on your Mac. (iCloud Photo Library beta FAQ)
On iCloud Drive, on the other hand, you would not save any storage at all, since all documents on iCloud Drive have shadow copies on your Mac.

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I Currently use Crashplan for that, but using iCloud drive would be better, as I'd have access to my stuff more easily than with crashplan's UI.
MAybe a third party services offers that?
What do you think guys?

Manusnake wrote:
Well I thought the same, but actually I did a new Time Machine backup a month ago via wifi (starting from scratch). About 700 GB of data. It was slower than Ethernet of course, but it worked without any issue.
You must have top-of-the-line WiFi hardware. How long did it take? I don't even remember how long it took for the initial Ethernet backup before my Time Capsule died. It was at least a day.
However I see your point for online backup. That'd require TM to be more gentle. To do one backup per day for example could be a solution (instead of one every hour).
Time Machine works best in small increments. I always advise against hacking the backup frequency. People who complain about Time Machine tend to have hacked it up. People who don't tend to have left it alone. Just sayin'.

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...can I be selective with which files/folders sync and which don't?

What's on your computer is a phantom listing. The only space it uses is that needed for the entries.
That's only for files from apps that can save directly to the iCloud drive, Numbers, Pages, etc. If you add local files/folders to the iCloud Drive folder locally
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Yes I know, but I want it to be used as external storage, not something where I store copies of stuff that I have already on my macbook
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What you want to do is not possible with iCloud Drive.

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Jon

Found a solution, but it is odd:
On the 2008 Mac Pro, I UNCHECK the boxes beside Pages and Numbers in System Preferences > iCloud > iCloud Drive > Options. Now Pages and Numbers will properly save edited documents to the appropriate folders on iCloud Drive.
Go figure ...
Hope that this helps someone else.
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You can only delete the published journal in iPhoto on the device that created it:
iPhoto for iOS (iPad): Share your web journal as a webpage http://support.apple.com/kb/PH3156
And iPhoto can only be used with iOS 7.
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I would like to use iCloud drive on my iPhone and access all my files. I can do that very easily using Dropbox but I cannot find an app for iCloud Drive that works the same way. Am I overlooking something?????

For individual Apps to access iCloud drive, the APP Developer must set that up. If it is not an option in a specific application that you use, you should submit feedback to the App Developer to add the feature.
HTH

I am using Windows Vista running ver 9 of Internet Explorer. Can I use iCloud drive with my PC?

I am running Windows Vista Business on my PC. I have ver 9 of Internet Explorer. Can I use iCloud drive on my machine?

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I am from Denmark, so I am a little unsure if iCloud drive is available for me.
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the screenshots about iCloud Drive. So.... what am I missing?
I need a step-by-step guide or some screenshots
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Hi again bobseufert
so there was this update on pages, keynote and numbers... When I opened pages it asked me if I wanted to use icloud drive - but I still don't get this document picker Do you experienced the same? Just want to make sure I am not missing anything..

Using iCloud Drive

Anyone please show me how to use iCloud Drive? I've asked this before but no one was answering.
I can't imagine after months of release, I still could not find the way to use iCloud Drive. There is no detailed tutorial on Apple website, and there is no reply from this forum.
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Hi,
Maybe this comes a little late for you.
I had the same impression you had about icloud drive.
This morning I have told with the support service and they have told me that you can't see any document you uploaded in the cloud in your ipad or iphone devices if they are word, pdf, documents. The only documents you can see are those which are done with apple apps. iWork, etc...
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Hope it's time already for this!
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Thank you very much, Luis

luisfromarg wrote:
Hello,
I would like to know if I need some app for opening a file pdf in iCloud.
I put several pdf file in iCloud but, I can not read it
how I should to do?
Thank you very much, Luis
There are thousands of apps for that.
Try Adobe Reader.

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hello to everyone as I can see video avi to ipad existing icloud drive

Welcome to the Apple Community.
The AVI format has been out of date for around 20 years now, what exactly are you trying to do.

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