The never-ending poor UX that is iCloud syncing

Another 24 hours, and it appears iCloud sync's constipation has randomly unblocked itself.

The reference to "uploading" is gone from the status in Finder.

And there are no icons to the right of "iCloud Drive" in Finder.

In the absence of any logs or debugging facility, I will never know why iCloud sync got constipated, or why the constipation cleared, which is not particularly reassuring.

So I will close this thread, but not with any great satisfaction.

A new day. Let's check to see what useful (?!) information my Macbook deigns to impart about my iCloud sync status today.

What does this mean? On the one hand the verb is still present tense — uploading. The item count remains unchanged, but the figures in parentheses now match. So, has it synced or not? No idea. So we have a status bar that fails to unambiguously convey the status.

Interestingly, I found this little progress bar behind my browser, never before seen.

Weirdly, the numbers indicate to me that it's done, but the blue bar indicates that it isn't.

This is such substandard UX that I keep questioning if it's a PBKAC. But no. I suspect it's Apple.

#fail

Apparently, you get the progress bar pictured immediately above by clicking the icon to the right of "iCloud Drive" in Finder. I must have done that.

Anyway. There has been absolutely no change in the progress bar since I posted the screenshot above. And given Apple's silence on the matter, there is absolutely nothing I can do about it. Joy. Still, I guess there are people out there facing bigger life challenges than this. Annoying though.

How, if my macbook is never offline nor sync'ing paused, did a backlog of thirty two thousand items / six and a half gig form in the first place?!

Whatever happened today, and I didn't change anything, it's appears to be catching up with itself now. The parentheses in the screenshot above now reads (6,14 GB of 6,47 GB).

It's a shame because it would be nice to just rely in iCloud syncing, but one feels one cannot.

I'll leave the post open a while longer — perhaps until the sync is caught up tomorrow — in case anyone else wants to vent about this 😜

Another 24 hours. No change.

Can anyone point me to the missing manual that (1) explains the status information unambiguously, and (2) offers instructions on what to do next if the status indicates action is needed?

Thanks @muguy. I have done so at least once every day this week so far to see if that would help. It has not.