Storage of 1 TB icloud is 'Full' instantly

Hello

I just bought a 1 TB of storage icloud and with the 1st attempt to copy a file, I got the message ' point 'Photos' cannot be copied because there is not enough free space. "

How does the iCloud?  I bought the extra space in order to save my old NTFS hard drives so I could then wipe them and format them to HFS before returning data

I am so - drag files directly from an external drive, so they are copied. It is true that the first case was big enough - 220 GB. So I went to smaller - 1 GB worked, 9 GB worked, but then 14 GB does not.

Then I tried a few new smaller files - about 1 GB and they worked but then a record 2.6 GB failed.

I tried 3 files totalling 39 GB of my local documents directory - and they moved (not copied) "instantly".

What happens here? Is it because it's an external hard drive? Because it is NTFS? The fact that I have less than 1 GB of storage available on my boot drive it affect?

Also - when I moved the data to local storage to icloud, when will I see the space on my local drive actually become free?

In a perfect world, I really wish I could you select the 990 GB of several files on my external hard drive, and then drag to icloud only once - then leave from one day to the next, or more.

Is this possible?

Thank you

If these data you "move" to iCloud aren't on your system drive, it is your question.

iCloud is a synchronization between your local system drive and iCloud service. So if you copy data to an external hard drive, what you're doing is to copy it to your local HD and your iCloud drive.

The message of the space isn't likely your system drive, icloud.

The documents folder moved smoothly, because this content was already on your system disk. You just change the file locations.

iCloud is NOT a hard drive in the sky that you can move data. It is a service of synchronization between the file called iCloud drive on your local system drive and iCloud himself.

At the end of synchronization, they will have the same content. Same amount of occupied space.

"In a perfect world, I really wish you select the 990 GB of several files on my external hard drive, and then drag to icloud only once - then leave from one day to the next, or more."

N ° not like iCloud is currently being implemented.

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