why is iCloud drive not showing all my folders?

Hi,

I had the same problem and most of the forums had the same solution, "enable iCould Drive". But it was of no help.

Then I figured that you need to turn on your wifi and get connected, iCloud drive syncs only via wifi. For some strange reason it does not sync with mobile data.

Hope this helps some guys out.

I am having the same issue. In finder iCloud drive, only the pages folder is there. All the folders that I can see at iCloud.com like QuickTime and text edit etc do not show up in finder on my Mac. I can also see these folder on my iphone and iPad.

Seems like iCloud Drive isn't running like it should out of the gate. I have two computers, both with Yosemite, it took about 2 hours for the iCloud Drive on both to have the same folders. Then I put a jpg on one to see how long that would take to show up on both. Still waiting and its been about 90 minutes.

Same here. For me, iCloud Drive only works on icloud.com and the iCloud drive folder on my Windows Pc. But not on Yosemite

Having the exact same issue. Showing various different folders on different devices. The only place which shows all folders is iCloud Drive on Safari.

I have a theory:

I think that OS X might be automatically hiding folders that don't have any contents.

To illustrate, I have Scanner By Readdle installed on my iPad that automatically creates its own folder and pushes scans to my iCloud Drive. When I had no scans the folder didn't show up in the OS X window (but did on my iPad). I then did a test scan so it could be sent to the Cloud. Low and behold the folder is now visible in Yosemite (whilst the Quicktime, Automator, etc folders are still invisible.)

Anyway, just a theory.

TT.

Lucky you! Mine is showing just nothing. When I try to open my iCloud Drive folder I am receiving an error message: "Process could not be finished. Object not found." (Translated from German since my Mac speaks Geman). Someone around knowing what to do here?

I`ve been having the same issues.

Following Neil`s theory I just dragged a file into Preview on iCloud.com and the Preview folder quickly appeared in the finder.

Good luck everyone!

That theory would make sense - however, the only folder I have displayed on my Mac is Numbers and that's empty. However, app folders do appear on my mac if I save something to their app folder through drive. Strange!

If only I could delete all those unused app folders!

No impact. However, all of my iCloud folders contain files. It doesn't show anything at all, it does not even allow me to open iCloud drive but instead displays the error message.

Without stating the bleeding obvious, I think there are multiple issues going on here.

From experience, signing out, re-booting, and signing back in on iCloud can sometimes fix these kind of issues on iOS and Mac. (My iCloud Drive folders didn't show up on my iPad at first when I tried to access them through Numbers, and this routine fixed the issue.)

But i'm guessing you've tried that already?

Again, my issues were limited to the iPad.

In Settings/iCloud I signed out of my iCloud account. It asks you a couple of times about what data you want kept on your iPad. I chose to delete everything to give a clean slate. (You might want to opt to keep stuff depending on your situation.) It will also remove your device from Find My Phone if you use it.

I then turned off the iPad, waited 10 secs, and re-booted it. I then went back into Settings/iCloud and signed into my iCloud account. It then verified my account (it took a while to do this), and I went into Numbers to check that it had access to my iCloud Drive. It may have been that Apple's servers were really busy last night but it did take a while for all my documents to be available in Numbers, Pages, etc. It wasn't instantaneous but the apps were telling me that things were being updated so I left it to it. All fine now.

You could also do the same steps in OS X System Preferences/iCloud.

Neil

Go to iCloud Drive and access folder (from Mac you put files on to iCloud Drive) you'll see progress upload to iCloud Drive.
In my case still uploading...