Messages Storage Saver

Messages Storage Saver is a free Mac app that does for Messages what “Optimize Mac Storage” does for Photos. Messages was taking up 190 GB on my Mac. With Messages in iCloud, Apple keeps the master copy of every attachment in iCloud, but the Mac downloads each one and never lets go, so every photo and video anyone has sent me is stored twice, forever. iPhones quietly clear old attachments when they run low on space; the same code is on the Mac, but it’s switched off. And Apple’s only built-in options, “Keep messages: 30 days” and “Disable & Delete”, delete your conversations from iCloud and every device, which is much worse than the problem. So I made the missing switch: Your choice – pick how old and how large an attachment has to be (“larger than 100 MB and older than 2 years”), and a live table shows how much space every combination would free Only the local copy goes – it removes attachments Messages has already marked as uploaded to iCloud. Nothing is deleted from iCloud, your…

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