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Optimized Storage helps you save storage space space by storing your content in iCloud and making it available on demand:
- When storage space is needed, files, photos, movies, email attachments, and other files that you seldom use are stored in iCloud automatically.
- Each file stays right where you last saved it, and downloads when you open it.
- Files that you’ve used recently remain on your Mac, along with optimized versions of your photos.
If you haven't yet upgraded to macOS Sierra or later, learn about other ways to free up storage space.
Find out how much storage is available on your Mac
Choose Apple menu > About This Mac, then click Storage. Each segment of the bar is an estimate of the storage space used by a category of files. Move your pointer over each segment for more detail.
Click the Manage button to open the Storage Management window, pictured below.
Manage storage on your Mac
The Storage Management window offers recommendations for optimizing your storage. If some recommendations are already turned on, you will see fewer recommendations.
Store in iCloud
Click the Store in iCloud button, then choose from these options:
- Desktop and Documents. Store all files from these two locations in iCloud Drive. When storage space is needed, only the files you recently opened are kept on your Mac, so that you can easily work offline. Files stored only in iCloud show a download icon , which you can double-click to download the original file. Learn more about this feature.
- Photos. Store all original, full-resolution photos and videos in iCloud Photos. When storage space is needed, only space-saving (optimized) versions of photos are kept on your Mac. To download the original photo or video, just open it.
- Messages. Store all messages and attachments in iCloud. When storage space is needed, only the messages and attachments you recently opened are kept on your Mac. Learn more about Messages in iCloud.
Storing files in iCloud uses the storage space in your iCloud storage plan. If you reach or exceed your iCloud storage limit, you can either buy more iCloud storage or make more iCloud storage available. iCloud storage starts at 50GB for $0.99 (USD) a month, and you can purchase additional storage directly from your Apple device. Learn more about prices in your region.
Optimize Storage
Click the Optimize button to save space by automatically removing watched movies and TV shows. When storage space is needed, movies or TV shows that you purchased from Apple and already watched are removed from your Mac. Click the download icon next to a movie or TV show to download it again.
Your Mac will also save space by keeping only recent email attachments on this Mac when storage space is needed. You can manually download any attachments at any time by opening the email or attachment, or saving the attachment to your Mac.
Optimizing storage for movies, TV shows, and email attachments doesn't require iCloud storage space.
Empty Trash Automatically
Empty Trash Automatically permanently deletes files that have been in the Trash for more than 30 days.
Reduce Clutter
Reduce Clutter helps you identify large files and files you might no longer need. Click the Review Files button, then choose any of the file categories in the sidebar, such as Applications, Documents, Music Creation, or Trash.
You can delete the files in some categories directly from this window. Other categories show the total storage space used by the files in each app. You can then open the app and decide whether to delete files from within it.
Learn how to redownload apps, music, movies, TV shows, and books.
Where to find the settings for each feature
The button for each recommendation in the Storage Management window affects one or more settings in other apps. You can also control those settings directly within each app.
- If you're using macOS Catalina or later, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Apple ID, then select iCloud in the sidebar: Store in iCloud turns on the Optimize Mac Storage setting on the right. To turn off iCloud Drive entirely, deselect iCloud Drive.
- If you're using macOS Mojave or earlier, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click iCloud, then click Options next to iCloud Drive. Store in iCloud turns on the Desktop & Documents Folders and Optimize Mac Storage settings.
- In Photos, choose Photos > Preferences, then click iCloud. Store in iCloud selects iCloud Photos and Optimize Mac Storage.
- In Messages, choose Messages > Preferences, then click iMessage. Store in iCloud selects Enable Messages in iCloud.
- If you're using macOS Catalina or later, open the Apple TV app, choose TV > Preferences from the menu bar, then click Files. Optimize Storage selects “Automatically delete watched movies and TV shows.”
- In you're using macOS Mojave or earlier, open iTunes, choose iTunes > Preferences from the menu bar, then click Advanced. Optimize Storage selects “Automatically delete watched movies and TV shows.”
- In Mail, choose Mail > Preferences from the menu bar, then click Accounts. In the Account Information section on the right, Optimize Storage sets the Download Attachments menu to either Recent or None.
Empty Trash Automatically: From the Finder, choose Finder > Preferences, then click Advanced. Empty Trash Automatically selects “Remove items from the Trash after 30 days.”
Other ways that macOS helps automatically save space
With macOS Sierra or later, your Mac automatically takes these additional steps to save storage space:
- Detects duplicate downloads in Safari, keeping only the most recent version of the download
- Reminds you to delete used app installers
- Removes old fonts, languages, and dictionaries that aren't being used
- Clears caches, logs, and other unnecessary data when storage space is needed
How to free up storage space manually
Even without using the Optimized Storage features described in this article, you can take other steps to make more storage space available:
- Music, movies, and other media can use a lot of storage space. Learn how to delete music, movies, and TV shows from your device.
- Delete other files that you no longer need by moving them to the Trash, then emptying the Trash. The Downloads folder is good place to look for files that you might no longer need.
- Move files to an external storage device.
- Compress files.
- Delete unneeded email: In the Mail app, choose Mailbox > Erase Junk Mail. If you no longer need the email in your Trash mailbox, choose Mailbox > Erase Deleted Items.
Learn more
- The Storage pane of About This Mac is the best way to determine the amount of storage space available on your Mac. Disk Utility and other apps might show storage categories such as Not Mounted, VM, Recovery, Other Volumes, Free, or Purgeable. Don't rely on these categories to understand how to free up storage space or how much storage space is available for your data.
- When you duplicate a file on an APFS-formatted volume, that file doesn't use additional storage space on the volume. Deleting a duplicate file frees up only the space required by any data you might have added to the duplicate. If you no longer need any copies of the file, you can recover all of the storage space by deleting both the duplicate and the original file.
- If you're using a pro app and Optimize Mac Storage, learn how to make sure that your projects are always on your Mac and able to access their files.
How to record multiple breakout rooms in Zoom at the same time:
- Requirements
- OS: Windows or Mac (Linux not tested, might work as well)
- a Zoom account and Desktop installation (duh)
- General idea
- Host meeting under main account (main instance)
- Open as many additional Zoom instances as there are breakout rooms (breakout instances)
- For each breakout instance, join the meeting via meeting id + password and give each an easily identifiable name (e.g. 'Breakout[1]', 'Breakout[2]', .. )
- From your main instance, give all 'Breakout[..]' participants co-host permissions
- From your main instance, start the breakout rooms, and assign exactly one Breakout[..] participant to each breakout room
- From each breakout instance, start recording the breakout room individually
Mac Os Catalina
Opening additional Zoom instances is specific to your operating system:
Couch Breakout Mac Os Catalina
- Windows 10
- Windows won't allow you to start multiple instances of Zoom without them being assigned to seperate users. Therefore, for each breakout room, we need to
- (a) Create a dedicated user (Breakout1, to BreakoutX)
- (b) Create a copy of the Zoom folder (Zoom(Breakout1) to Zoom(BreakoutX))
- (c) Give user 'BreakoutX' access to the Zoom folder 'Zoom(BreakoutX)'
- (d) Start Zoom(BreakoutX) under the user BreakoutX
- Stare master 2018 mac os. In detail
- (a) Create as many additional users as there are breakout rooms Dunder mac os.
- Press 'Windows' Key
- Type 'Add User'
- Click 'Add, edit, or remote other users'
- Below 'other users', click 'Add someone else to this PC'
- Click 'I don't have this person's sign-in information'
- Click 'Add a user without a Microsoft account'
- Enter 'BreakoutX' as username (X = 1 to as many breakout recordings you need)
- Enter password of your choice, supply security answers
- (b) Create copies of the Zoom file folder located at C:UsersYourUsernameAppDataRoamingZoom
- Go to C:UsersYourUsernameAppDataRoaming
- Press 'Windows' Key
- Enter 'Zoom'
- Right-click on 'Start Zoom' in Windows menu
- Click 'Open file location' (opens File explorer)
- Right-click 'Start Zoom' in File explorer
- Click 'Open file location'
- You are now at C:UsersYourUsernameAppDataRoamingZoombin
- Move up two parent folders to C:UsersYourUsernameAppDataRoaming
- Create as many copies as there will be breakout rooms
- Click on 'Zoom'
- Press (CTRL-C)
- Press (CTRL-V) as often as there are breakout rooms
- You now have the following folders
- Zoom
- Zoom - Copy
- Zoom - Copy (2)
- Zoom - Copy (3)
- Zoom - Copy (4)
- ..
- Zoom - Copy (X)
- Rename 'Zoom - Copy' to 'Zoom - Copy (1)' for consistency
- Go to C:UsersYourUsernameAppDataRoaming
- (c) Give user 'BreakoutX' access to the Zoom folder 'Zoom - Copy (X)'
- For each Zoom - Copy (X) folder
- Right click on the folder
- Click 'Properties'
- Click 'Security'
- Click 'Edit'
- Click 'Add'
- Enter username BreakoutX (e.g. Breakout3 for 'Zoom - Copy (3)' folder)
- Click 'Check Names' to check
- Click 'OK'
- Click 'Add'
- Click 'OK'
- Click 'Edit'
- Click 'OK'
- Click 'Security'
- For each Zoom - Copy (X) folder
- (d) Start Zoom(BreakoutX) under the user BreakoutX
- For each Zoom - Copy (X) folder
- Enter the folder
- Enter 'bin' folder
- Find 'Zoom.exe'
- Shift Right-click 'Zoom.exe'
- Click 'Run as different user'
- Enter 'BreakoutX' as Username (e.g. Breakout5 for 'Zoom - Copy (5)' folder)
- Enter password you chose
- if you receive error message 'Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file' then that folder is not accessable by that user, you need to redo (c)
- Enter 'bin' folder
- Enter the folder
- For each Zoom - Copy (X) folder
- Mac OS
- Fortunately Mac OS allows multiple instances of Zoom under the same user account once you duplicate the Application:
- Go to /Applications
- Create as many duplicates as there will be breakout rooms:
- Right click on 'Zoom.us'
- Click 'Duplicate'
- Start each duplicate by double-click
- Notice
- Zoom uses their own video format to record conversions. The application will convert them once you left the meeting. However, under Mac, parallel conversions are not supported: If user 'Breakout2' leaves the meeting while the conversion for the recording by user 'Breakout1' is still in progress, you will get a corresponding error message telling you that another conversion is in progress and that you can convert it a later time by opening Zoom and selecting your meeting. However, since the BreakoutX users joined anonymously those meetings are not accessible via the app. This is why the BreakoutX users should only exit a meeting when the conversion of other BreakoutX users are complete. In particular, the host should not terminate the meeting for all until all BreakoutX have left as Zoom will attempt to start all remaining BreakoutX video conversions at the same time, triggering the error. If you still happen to encounter this error, you need to start the conversion of the raw Zoom video files manually using either of three options:
- (1) Using Zoom's own Transcode App
- Open Application -> Utilities -> Terminal
- Open Finder and navigate to /Applications
- Right click on 'Zoom.us'
- Select 'Show Package Contents'
- Dbl-click 'Contents'
- Dbl-click 'Frameworks'
- Drag 'Transcode.app' to Terminal window
- Find the folder corresponding to the breakout session that failed the conversion under Document -> Zoom -> [Date of Breakout session], containing the 'double_click_convert..zoom' files.
- Drag the 'double_click_convert..zoom' to Terminal window
- In the Temrinal Window, press Enter
- (2) by tricking Zoom into thinking that the older video recording belong to the current session:
- Wait until currently ongoing conversions are finished
- Close all Zoom instances
- Open your Zoom main instance
- Create new meeting
- Click Record and select 'Record on this Computer' (don't select on 'Record to the Cloud')
- After a few seconds click the Stop Icon to stop the recording
- Important: Don't end your meeting
- Find the folder corresponding to your ongoing meeting under Documents -> Zoom -> [Current Date] and delete the .zoom files there
- Find the folder corresponding to the breakout session that failed the conversion under Document -> Zoom -> [Date of Breakout session], containing the 'double_click_convert..zoom' files.
- Copy the 'double_click_convert..zoom' files from the [Actual Meeting Date] folder to the [Current Date] folder
- Wait until copying is finished
- Only now, end the meeting in Zoom
- Zoom should now start converting and you will find the results under Documents -> Zoom -> [Current Date]
- Copy the converted video files to Document -> Zoom -> [Date of Breakout session]
- Repeat for other session that failed conversion
- Spherical constitution mac os. (3) If this fails, you can use Zoom's own zTsCoder.exe tool, though it is Windows only:
- move the 'double_click_convert.zoom' files to Windows (a virtual machine running Windows 10 can be found here)
- right click on the first of them
- select 'Open with'
- select 'More apps'
- select 'Look for another app on this PC'
- Browse to C:UsersYourUsernameAppDataRoamingZoombin.
- Select 'zTsCoder.exe'
- Click 'open'