iCloud Drive stuck Setting up...

Relaunch the Finder.

Hold the option key on keyboard first and then right-click on Finder Icon in the dock and click 'Relaunch'. After relaunch, it'll work!

I had a similar problem. my solution is to sign out from iCloud then sign back in again.

When you sign out of iCloud from the Mac, did you delete all contacts, calendar, etc? Are they easily repopulated from iCloud when you sign back in?

This did not work for me. I signed out, deleted everything, signed back in, and I still get "Setting up..." and the spinny thing.

-Mike D

This does the trick. Thanks for posting!

Neither re-signing into iCloud nor relaunching Finder have resolved this problem for me.

Never mind, one of those two things fixed it. It just took forever for it to connect.

Neither re-signing into iCloud nor relaunching Finder have resolved this problem for me.

Then restart the Mac.

Relaunched. Restart. Still not working. Message "Setting up iCloud Drive..." for 24 hours now.

Restarting worked for me. Although it then took a couple hours for iCloud Drive on computer 1 to sync with what I was seeing on computer 2. And I have very little uploaded to it so far. Under 500mb

Thanks, this solution worked for me!

Signing out of iCloud and signing back in worked for me. Yes, you will get a warning that your Contacts, Calendar, etc. data will be removed from the Mac, but it will be repopulated when signing back in. (That was my experience anyway.) A "setting up iCloud Drive" spinning wheel that had been stuck overnight completed setup in about 1-2 minutes after signing out and back in.

This worked for me:

1. Finder > Go > (hold down option key) > Library;
2. Right-click on Mobile Documents > choose Compress "Mobile Documents";
3. Move "Mobile Documents.zip" to my Desktop (now I have a backup of my iCloud docs);
4. System Preferences > iCloud;
5. Sign Out and accept alerts;
6. Restart the Mac;
7. System Preferences > iCloud;
8. Sign back into iCloud;
9. One-by-one, from the bottom up, enable each iCloud feature and wait for it to complete (if you're enabling Keychain you'll be prompted for additional security);
10. Finally, enable iCloud Drive (mine took about two minutes);
11. If any docs are missing (some 3rd-party docs were missing for me), you can get them from the backup in step 3.

Hope this helps.

Relaunching the finder worked for me too. Thanks Phoenix!

Solved. Thanks!

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