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
Community specialists are utter morons more concerned with thanking you for having a problem you want solved than with reading your question and actually providing an answer. They really should stay off the forums and let the users help each other.
Your issue is a bug; it is likely not going to be fixed due to the way bug fixing works under agile practices. It is an annoyance, a very well documented one, but not a show stopper or security risk, so it's with us to stay, unfortunately.
There are many known workarounds, but none that permanently fix the issue of the not downloaded icon being present.
The quality of Apple's systems is slipping dramatically, maybe Apple's passing this bug is a feature rather than a bug
Thank you!
You can make a copy if you have enough space on your ssd (it more safe !), all the file go to "Archive iCloud" in your Computer.
After sync, if all is ok, simply delete it.
Thank you !
I will try (this week-end).
I hope that it will work, because it is rather annoying…
I tried. Doesn't work for me…
It does not work at all!!
Could you, then, explain why this behavior is expected? It is certainly counterintuitive and misleading.
Thanks
iCloud Drive download icon won't go away
