icloud for Windows - stuck on initializing

Hi everyone,


i have Windows 11 installed and everything worked fine.

But suddenly my icloud drive stopped working.


It says "initializing" but nothing is happening.

I have already tried uninstalling and installing it, with no effect.

It works fine on iphone and browser.


Thanks!


Windows, Windows 10

Posted on Jan 15, 2023 2:44 AM

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Posted on Mar 25, 2023 6:09 AM

Had exactly the same issue. What helped was:

  1. Logout from apple account on your windows machine iCloud application.
  2. Login again.
  3. Before starting synchronization - change the directory of iCloud. It looks like it does not have permission to write to the default one sometimes. I changed it to <user>/Documents/iCloudsomething


Works fine now.

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