Q: iCloud Drive not syncing locally

Look it console and found this:

10/20/14 9:41:20.377 PM bird[1621]: can't create directory at '/Users/vansantr/Library/Caches/com.apple.bird/session': Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 "You don’t have permission to save the file “session” in the folder “com.apple.bird”." UserInfo=0x7fd9d8c221a0 {NSFilePath=/Users/vansantr/Library/Caches/com.apple.bird/session, NSUnderlyingError=0x7fd9d8c21fb0 "The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied"}

followed by:

10/20/14 9:46:23.627 PM bird[1686]: iCloud Drive is not able to run, please run "Repair Disk Permissions" in "Disk Utility"

have run Repair Disk Permissions twice but I'm still getting the same error.

Now what?

My Console gives me this:

21.10.14 15:14:13,000 kernel[0]: bird[377] Unable to quarantine: 93

21.10.14 15:11:29,659 bird[377]: Got a connection error from the daemon: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4097 "Die Kommunikation mit einem Hilfsprogramm ist fehlgeschlagen." (connection to service named com.apple.cloudd) UserInfo=0x7fb99d988fd0 {NSDebugDescription=connection to service named com.apple.cloudd}

21.10.14 10:56:59,766 bird[377]: zone creation error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4097 "Die Kommunikation mit einem Hilfsprogramm ist fehlgeschlagen." (connection to service named com.apple.cloudd) UserInfo=0x7fb99dc76540 {NSDebugDescription=connection to service named com.apple.cloudd}

21.10.14 15:12:12,243 cloudd[1780]: Stream 0x7fb2db254c90 is sending an event before being opened

After looking around I found that I was missing at least two folders in the /Users/vansantr/Library/Caches folder.

com.apple.bird

CloudKit

After creating these two folders and changing the owner to root iCloud drive windows in the finder no longer has the setup message and button but I still don't see any of my iCloud Documents and the cloud process still crashes. it's looking for a database called CloudKitMetadata. Clearly some setup script failed to run and so I missing this database and maybe some other folders. Signing out of iCloud and signing back in does not fix this.

Same problem here. Quite disappointing that it is not working. Maybe it is time to stop updating to new versions like with windows os.

I found that in my case, if I login to Yosemite in a different ( a test ) account, that iCloud drive worked properly. It seems like there is something wrong with my main account. Like some others, I spent hours on the phone with Apple. They had me run a program which collect a bunch of data and sent it to them. They said that engineering will look at the problem. I had previously run special applications (provided by Apple Engineering)  on my Mac and IOS devices a few weeks ago which generated data which was sent to Apple under another Bug Report on this same issue. I have not heard back

At this point I don't know that giving them a week to stabilize things is going to suffice.

I jumped head first into iCloud Drive with faith that Apple would not have relaunched their cloud services without making sure they worked perfectly. After reading all these complaints I have no faith in them whatsoever when it comes to cloud services. This is not your run of the mill, post-OS release bug. Apple has a long history of failure with cloud services going back to "iDrive". If after all this time and hype it still doesn't work, it never will.

Guess it's back to Dropbox. Apple isn't getting another penny from me for cloud storage.

In all honesty the best possible trouble shooting for iCloud has always been sign out and back in on the device in question. Backup your iCloud drive docs then sign out of iCloud completely. Sign back in and turn all the syncing back on then close your sys prefs window and see how the drive performs. Make sure there is no antivirus or firewall running on your system.

This should just work. Why is it that I never need to sign in and out of my Dropbox or Google Drive account to get the sync to work? And those companies don't have anywhere near the access to the core operating system that Apple does. If Apple can't get iCloud to "just work" they should completely abandon these features and leave them to companies who can instead of wasting their users' time and jeopardizing their data.

I'm a long time Apple fan and proponent but I've reached the end of my patience with them as far as their cloud services go.

Having issues as well. To keep the story short: Whatever folders and files I see in iCloud Drive in Yosemite are not the same as what I see in iCloud.com. If I copy files over to iCloud Drive, few of them at a time, it seems to work fine. But who copies files like that, right?

Been talking to Apple support reps for the past two days now. They have no idea, too, as to what's going on.

Hi,

Same problem: my iCloud drive is empty.

I see a lot of cloudd crash logs in Console.app. Really a lot. And all of them with one error:

Application Specific Information:

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSGenericException', reason: 'Error executing SQL: "begin exclusive" (8) (8/0x0008/attempt to write a readonly database)'

terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException

abort() called

I tried repairing permissions, killing bird and cloudd, deleting CloudDocs folder. Nothing helps me, my iCloud Drive is still not syncing:

You are lucky that it worked with your iDevices.  It hasn't worked with my iDevices or Mac mini or MBA.  All iDevices are running iOS 8.1 ini and MBA are running Yosemite. I made a note in Apple Notes on my iPhone yesterday.  It should have gone to my iPad, Mac mini and MBA by now.  It hasn't. What's up with that and how do I get syncing working? All devices and computers have iCloud Drive turned on.

Was the same for me. A lot of error messages in the Console.

But 2 days ago, my iCloud Drive started syncing suddenly.

Who knows what the heck is going on on our Macs...

It's the same for me, I have spent around 9 hours to try to fix the problem.

At one stage not only I had syncing issues but I was not able to edit any of the iWork documents from my iPhone/iPad, I was keeping getting an

''Unknown error '' message.

Finally after reinstalling the iWork apps in all my devices, deleting the CloudKit folder, signing few times off and on from the iCloud account from my iMac,iPhone,iPad, I have got the syncing/documents editing working between my mobile devices and iCloud.com.

But when I open the iCloud drive on my iMac I just see an empty canvas?

Apple wake up!

I tried cmau's  technique and it started working immediately for me. Easy fix. (Thank you!) Files downloading now.

Go to ~/Library/Application Support

Move the folder CloudDocs to the trash.

Kill the processes cloudd and bird using Activiy Monitor or Temrinal.

Your iCloud Drive starts downloading your stuff suddenly.