I cloud sync takes days.

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I cloud sync takes days.

Added some files to icloud before formatting my computer and I have been waiting for over 24 hours for them to sync. I have a very good internet connection, there is plenty of space in my icloud storage and this is not the first time. This has definitely happened before, but this time I needed if to finish so I paid attention.

Yesterday around 7 in the evening. 2.92 GB of 2.95 GB synced. Today 10 in the morning 2.92 GB of 2.95 GB synced and it started around 10 yesterday morning. How can I force the synced or find out what files are not synced? How can I have any control over my files here?

This is beyond frustrating. This is waisting my time. Please fix your broken services. I cloud is terrible for sharing files accross devices.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 15.3

Posted on Mar 13, 2025 1:16 AM

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Zurarczurx

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Mar 14, 2025 9:59 AM in response to mariann293

Open Activity Monitor, search for "Bird" (no quotes). Kill it.

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Mar 14, 2025 9:55 AM in response to mariann293

mariann293 wrote: …Please fix your broken services. I cloud is terrible for sharing files accross devices.

You're not using any services that I offer, and Apple engineers don't visit here.

As to your question, "How can I … find out what files are not synced?" What do you see in Finder? Here's some of my iCloud Drive:

The status icons indicate the, well, status. For instance:

Desktop is both local and at iCloud.com

photoslibrary is ignored because it's the not allowed in iCloud Drive

Rainbow stays only in iCloud until clicked

Album is kept always local as well as at iCloud

You didn't say what you see there…

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I cloud sync takes days.

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