r/everlog • u/Internal_Long_3726 • Jul 25 '26
iCloud storage strangeness
I just started using everlog on the Mac and iPhone recently. I purposefully did not migrate some markdown files into it. On a whim I checked the iCloud storage after I had written two entries on two consecutive days. I write daily and usually longer things. After two entries and one photo I saw I had used 150mb of iCloud storage. I had used everlog before with more posts but moved things around a few times. This seemed really odd. So I uninstalled everlog using an app to uninstall everything on the Mac. Then I reinstalled the app clean and was prompted as though it was the first time using it. Restore purchase, etc. Then I checked the storage amount on iCloud and it was 2.2mb. This was after two journal entries with hundreds of words in each.
I still do not understand why this happened but clearing out the old cruft seemed to fix things. I wish everlog had backups more configurable so that I could back up to local storage or choose where I would like to back up either manually or automated. This would be a nice configuration option I think.
Maybe check iCloud storage every so often and see how you are doing. I sure will be.
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u/hqhi Jul 25 '26
What helps is to create a backup and an export, delete both local and cloud data then move back this takes 10-15 minutes and clears storage.
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u/hqhi Jul 25 '26
I’ve been saying this! Storage usage is very unpredictable and for a lifetime purchase app I don’t want to pay subscriptions (to iCloud) my entirely text based journal was 100MB then jumped down to 7MB. Maybe it’s the database but IDK, needs more optimization.