since a couple of days the icloud drive seems to be "stuck". The symbol in the sidebar in finder doesn't go away (pie chart). It looks like it still sycning.
What can I do to find out at which files it is potentially stuck?
Go to the Terminal and type:
killall bird
Check if this fixes your issue. If not, go back to Terminal and type:
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support
rm -rf CloudDocs
Then immediately restart.
For 300gb of files, I had to wait an hour for anything to show up in the iCloud folder, and 4 hours for the sync to finish.
Source for this answer: here.
For me what worked is going into my Utilities, opening the Activity Monitor. Then look for a process called "bird" and force quit. No files deleted or moved, it just restarted the upload process.
bird
in Activity Monitor immediately fixed the issue for me.
Nov 14, 2019 at 20:39
I found that use of a VPN can both cause and cure the problem. Certainly turning on a VPN midway through an upload has stopped mine, but I also found that turning it on can cause a stalled upload to restart. Of course, it might just be my internet service provider messing with me.
Under ~/Library/Application Support/
, there's a folder called CloudDocs
. Chances are this is the culprit. Delete it (or move it elsewhere) and iCloud will reset itself and stop looping and re-caching the same files over and over again.
I had same problem but found there was an old application buried w/in my Documents folder that was incompatible with Sierra (circle/slash through icon) so, for whatever reason, iCloud sync wouldn't move it. I "compressed" (read: zip
’d) the problem app and deleted the original and now everything is peachy.
I had this issue with iCloud Drive not syncing iBooks. I found that using the touch
command on the parent folder causes everything to be uploaded. Touch tells the OS that the files were modified, so it reuploads them. If you only have one or two files, just touch those.
Drag a file from that folder to the command line to see what the actual directory is.
Mine turned out to be
/Users/username/Library/Mobile\ Documents/iCloud\~com\~apple\~iBooks/Documents/
So I went to the parent directory, and "touched" the Documents
folder.
cd /Users/username/Library/Mobile\ Documents/iCloud\~com\~apple\~iBooks/
touch Documents
Then, everything changed from "Waiting to Upload" to "Uploading".
I had the same problem, and found that relaunching Finder solved it for me. If someone else comes here with the same problem, I suggest they try relaunching Finder first, before moving on to more intense things like restarting the machine or other steps.
'In System Preferences:iCloud:options, uncheck the app(s) that had the 'cloud' files; alternatively uncheck iCloud Drive (in which case, iCloud Drive will reinitialize with all apps checked)'
When I try this, it warns me that files will be deleted permanently. I can see no files in my Documents folder on the hard drive; and most on iCloud drive are missing
I simply double-clicked on the cloud icon for those not updating on the iCloud drive. Just like that, they started updating correctly. You need to double click on each one, one at a time.
killall bird
, and if necessary first deleting${HOME}/Library/Application Support/CloudDocs/
.