Possible for Evernote on macOS not to keep all the attachments locally?

[avernet 21]

I would like to be able to tell Evernote: "only keep locally on my Mac, say, 20 GB of the most recently accessed attachments, and the rest can stay in the cloud". But I am not seeing such an option. Does this mean that Evernote for macOS always keeps all my attachments locally?

The reason for me not wanting to keep all the attachments locally is that the space taken by attachments adds up, and after years can end up taking quite a bit of space which I would prefer to keep available for other uses. I don't need or want attachment that I haven't accessed for months, or maybe even years, to be stored locally, as those mostly exist for archival. But is this possible with Evernote for Mac? Or should I think about it differently, and store attachments somewhere else, say in Google Drive, and downgrade from my current Premium to a Basic subscription, as I don't seem to need any the other features included with Premium subscription?

‑Alex

[DTLow 5,736]

No, theres no option to be selective about the local storage with Evernote/Mac

Evernote/Windows has an on-demand option, but that's based on date accessed.

 

[avernet 21]

1 minute ago, DTLow said:

No, theres no option to be selective about the local storage with Evernote/Mac
Evernote/Windows has an on-demand option, but that's based on date accessed.

Thank you for the info; hopefully that Windows feature will make it to Mac at some point. Could you elaborate on how the feature works on Windows? By "based on date accessed", do you mean that you can set it to locally keep all files accessed in the last, say, 3 months, and everything else will be kept in the cloud and available for download on demand?

‑Alex

[avernet 21]

Just after starting this thread, I saw the following tweet from Shawn Baek (see attached). This is exactly the situation I'd like to avoid. Source.

‑Alex