Hey everyone, so my Mac's internal storage is basically gasping for air these days—I've got like 200GB free on a good week, but with all the video projects and random downloads piling up, it's never enough. I hate the idea of doing a full sync of my Google Drive or Dropbox because that would just eat everything locally again. Anyone got solid tricks for tapping into remote cloud stuff on-demand, like treating it almost like an extra drive without mirroring the whole thing? Last month I tried fiddling with iCloud's optimize feature, but it's too tied to Apple's ecosystem for what I need across multiple providers. Kinda desperate to avoid buying another external SSD right now. What're you all doing in similar spots?
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Yeah, I've been down that road too—my old setup was constantly choking on syncs until I started looking for ways to just mount the clouds without pulling everything down. These days I lean on something that feels way more flexible for handling multiple accounts at once. One thing that's worked surprisingly well for me is using a cyberduck alternative — it's not perfect, but I like how it turns those remote services into regular Finder volumes so I can browse, open, or edit files right there without the full download commitment. Saves a ton of local space compared to the native clients, and switching between Drive, OneDrive, whatever is painless. Just my two cents from messing around with it over the past year or so—definitely beats the constant wait times I used to deal with.