Switching to icloud

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Switching to icloud

I upgraded to 2TB of storage a week ago. iCloud has not backed up more than 45GB worth of my stuff. I have over 400GB of items. Acts like it's uploading constantly. The total number of items gradually goes down, but one of the folders says only 680mb of 348GB has been uploaded.

Our internet connection is about 100mbps... not slow. It's like it's being throttled.

Dropbox, OTOH, has no problem uploading and syncing everything as soon as I make a change.

I realize the size of the folder I added may be part of the issue, but this is absolutely crazy. It's to the point that because it's so focused on the iCloud Drive back up, that it's doing NOTHING with iBooks or anything else. I have tried toggling back and forth.. which helped initially, more things got uploaded/updated.. and then it's back to the slow stuff again.

iMac 27" 5K, macOS 10.14

Posted on Jun 9, 2019 6:52 PM

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LACAllen

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Jun 9, 2019 7:13 PM in response to icloudfail2

tried toggling back and forth.. which helped initially, more things got uploaded/updated.. and then it's back to the slow stuff again.

You need to stop doing that.

This alone could be the reason for your slowness. Uploading to iCloud is not a simple FTP dump of content to the cloud. There is much back and forth as macOS and iCloud exchange data integrity information. Toggling starts that process over again.

Patience for the initial upload is key.

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icloudfail2 Author

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Jun 9, 2019 6:59 PM in response to icloudfail2

Sometimes I'll see the number of MB go up.. sometimes it goes back down.. it's really out of control, I guess I expected iCloud to be at least as good or better than Dropbox (and maybe it is, but it is not acting user friendly at all at this point!)

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icloudfail2 Author

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Jun 9, 2019 7:15 PM in response to LACAllen

Initially it wouldn't even show an upload status - so for days it sat there doing nothing. I had to toggle and eventually run commands in terminal, which at least got it to start uploading and show a status! So is it just a game now of 'it'll take however long it takes'? It's disconcerting to see the numbers bouncing everywhere, almost as though it's not uploading things at all.

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LACAllen

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Jun 9, 2019 8:31 PM in response to icloudfail2

So is it just a game now of 'it'll take however long it takes'?

As I said before, yes. iCloud is not Dropbox.

had to toggle and eventually run commands in terminal

IMO, terminal commands may may it worse. Finding a terminal command on Youtube or elsewhere online does not mean a terminal command is needed or helpful.

Where is this 400GB of content stored right now? If it's on an external drive, note that it also being mirrored/synced to your system drive. That could be the issue. Have you noticed the available space on your system drive getting less?

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icloudfail2 Author

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Jun 11, 2019 5:28 PM in response to LACAllen

Stored in Dropbox and on local HDD. No external drive involved. Still no update in the total number of GB in iCloud, says only 45 GB of the 400GB is uploaded. iCloud no longer attempting to sync. I have no idea if everything is uploaded or not.

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LACAllen

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Jun 11, 2019 9:39 PM in response to icloudfail2

Sign in to iCloud.com and look.

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