I just started using iCloud Drive on my M1 Mac (Ventura) and it seems to work great, except the cloud icon with the down arrow indicating that my files are only in the cloud will not go away. All of my files are downloaded - when I click the cloud icon, nothing happens.
Ideas?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 13.0
As I experienced, you might see this ISSUE after reinstalling a clean OS and downloading documents from iCloud or transferring the docs from an external drive back to your documents folder. In either case, the syncing occurs but the icon does not clear.
Solution: you must methodically drill down into all your subfolders where you will likely spot at least one of those icons next to a random folder. Just click on it to initiate the download sync or right click and select "download"; I think the latter option will be available. When it clears, move on to the next until the icon in the root folder goes away. If you do nothing, it eventually might clear on its own but manually checking each sub folder will help you regain your sanity after having read another specialist's input saying it is something normal and permanent when it is anything but.
Same problem
Same for me.
clearly looks like an annoying bug (just annoying, not more). It seems that files are downloaded despite the icon shows it is not…
yes , and click on it do .... nothing !
Of courses, all files are correctly downloaded.
Thank you 🙏.
Exactly the same fore me 😥.
Apple support does not seem to acknowledge 🙄.
I have 13.2 and issues still persists. :(
But it does not occur for me with the same files while using Catalina on another Mac (related to Ventura so ?).
Same issue here as well.
I tried everything (as you did).
It obviously is a glitch…
It is up to Apple to solve it now !
The problem isn't fixed yet in 13.3…
I am not surprised !
Apple does not seem to acknowledge this glitch 😡.
Each experience might be different…
In my case, no sub folder with « undownloaded » files.
No way to get rid of these unwanted icons.
😥
I tried it one more time (to verify if 13.3 changed it).
But no…
It definitely is a bug : files are downloaded, but the icon does not say so.
This annoying bug is still here in 13.3.1. Come on Apple, is it so complicated to fix?
I am afraid it isn’t listed as a bug by Apple 😥.
Me too
iCloud Drive download icon won't go away
