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documents and data

  1. andyx181x

    Messages documents and data exceed total breakdown

    Hi there folks, cleaning out apps with excessive data stored and I can’t understand how my messages has over 2GB but the summary doesn’t add up to it. I did have some sync issues when I bought a new Mac recently and attempted to use iCloud for messages. Any advice be helpful on how I can get...
  2. nick_iphone7

    Safari Documents & Data

    How can I delete this cache? I turned off my iCloud sync but it doesn't stop accumulating any cache? I also saw that I had some data in Apple Books, deleted the app, installed it and they came back again, and it had to be removed. I do not want to make factory settings on my iPhone, is there...
  3. B

    Migrate user account

    Without going into too much details I have to do the following: I need to create a new user account on my Macbook Pro (Catalina), because the old user account does not work anymore. In order to ensure that the new account will be usable as the old account I want to copy files and folders from...
  4. andyx181x

    I cannot reset the iMessage data usage

    Hi there, this is the first time I have had this issue with trying to reset the data usage for iMessage. I traditionally delete all my text messages in order to clear out all the documents and data storage that phone holds onto to keep it at zero. However even though I deleted all my...
  5. Nercos85

    iPhone Transfer WhatsApp chat data from iPhone 4 to 7+

    Hey iOS 7 squad, I need some advice since I need to transfer my WhatsApp data from my iPhone 4 to my new 7 Plus. Here's my thread https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/icloud-to-icloud-drive-data.2157979/ Let me resume a little bit: I can do the WhatsApp chat history backup (from the app on the...
  6. jgelin

    iCloud Documents Folder, moving to External?

    Hello all, I am wondering if there is some way to move the files that are synced in the documents folder so that rather than being stored on the internal SSD the documents are stored on and reside on a permanently connected external HDD on my iMac. Reason being is I would like to move my...
  7. M

    Documents and data

    Hi there, I have an iPhone 5s for few weeks and because my "Others" started growing very fast, I decided to delete all data from iPhone and than restore from back-up. I did that and it really helped with the "Others" but "Documents and data" suddenly went from about 400mb to over 800mb, for no...