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443: A Storm of Asterisks

Accidental Tech Podcast

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Does Richie Not Use iCloud Photo Storage?

A Heronian writes, I know the clever trick to limit iCloud photo library disk usage by creating a separate APFS volume or disk image. Recently, I noticed that messages was using almost 100 gigs on my 256 gig SSD. That is not desirable. But now I have no useful insight here. You could probably find the folder that they are being stored in deep within library, whatever. And actually, I don't think we even heard whether those are being scanned for the CSAM. Because anyway, but if you store your messages, attachments in iCloud, I bet it offloads them pretty soon when you're low on space. So I would suggest if Richie does not use iCloud photo storage or

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