This is another case where Apple support wasn’t much help in getting rid of the confusion. (Though I did have a good Apple support call about bluetooth connectivity that solved the problem).
Here’s the issue.
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I have a 2 TB iCloud subscription. I am syncing everything I can turn on from my MBP, including Desktop and Documents. And Photos too, I do not have disk optimization turned on. My MBP is 2 TB SSD and I also backup with Time Machine and CCC.
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My Photos library alone is 474 GB in size, and appears to all be in iCloud.
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In the Finder when not in an iCloud directory it says I have 873 GB available, That means there must be about 1.1 TB worth of stuff on my MBP.
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The confusion: In a directory that synced to iCloud (e.g. Desktop) it says 1.56 TB available on iCloud. How can that be? It seems there should be less that 1 TB remaining on iCloud with everything possible synced, backups, and things synced from my iPhone and iPad too,
Any ideas?