iCloud Drive not syncing locally

Is this happening again for people? It just started up again for me on Friday. Local docs on my mac say, "waiting" -- and then the versions online are not in-sync. It was working for a while, but it's getting annoying that this keeps happening like once every few months.

Nothing syncing for me, not very pleased, did a stick of work on my iPad and none of it has changed on my mac. Very poor. Suspect they don't really care, too busy churning out watches.

So I could not get any big (600MB) files to sync to my MacBook Pro. Even having a good internet connection and leaving it all night. I can see it is downloading monitoring my bandwidth. I noticed in the log a lot of mismatched hashes. So I tried downloading through the website. Basically any large file will fail all the time to fully download. It just stops after 12MB or 100MB. The best I got was 200MB. It just stops! I tried Safari, Chrome, it just does not matter.

Conclusion to me: it is not a problem of Yosemite (i.e. the OS). It is a serious problem with iCloud itself. Strangely enough uploads always work without a problem. I can however never get my files to download. How ridiculous is that?! It seems such a trivial thing to do. Nowadays a file of 600MB is really not that big....

To add to my frustration is that I can't seem to complain as with Apple you cannot just send an e-mail with the issue. You need to have a chat session for which I never really have the patience nor the time.

I have an app that is OS X based and uses iCloud Drive to store the database. Works great though slow compared to Dropbox. There is a sister app that runs on IOS devices. Here is what I see:

Using OS X finder to view the file on iCloud Drive I see the file with the date of 6/19/2015. Viewing iCloud Drive from iCloud.com the file has a date of 6/10/2015 even though the OS X has updated the file many times between the two dates. And of course the IOS app sees the file with the 6/10/2015 date.

This is 110% an Apple iCloud issue. Why? I have seen this same issue at the company I retired from. Basically my OS X Mac's iCloud Drive is on 'server A' where as iCloud.com is using iCloud Drive on 'Server B' and my IOS devices may even be using additional servers. The problem is that the daemon or the path(s) that keeps all the servers in synchronization is either too busy or most likely just hung. This was a known issue with Linux based servers and typically caused by the daemon not recovering when there was a glitch in the physical connection between servers.

... i have my problem again.

Apple ***** really. I don't need no cloud-service that is time to time not synced...

Really disappointing ...

Maybe this time is Apple able to fix it faster than last time,..

APPLE, i need my documents at my iPad, but they don't get to the device. FIX IT!

I have had the same issue. I was able to resolve it by shutting down and restarting every device I use that is connected to iCloud. This included my Mac, my iPad, and my iPhone. After about 10 minutes of my devices updating, I checked each device and everything was right back on track!

This is the only true help I found, fixing the issue, but just temporarily. The problem keeps emerging, days or hours after having been dealt with it, making me reconsider using iCloud Drive or even Pages completely. It's annoying as ****, and unreliable. There are deep issues in cpu usage and syncing datas. Users cannot just be supposed to kill processes from Terminal and reset continuously (almost daily) their Pages files. The all point is to be able to have them ready from any Apple device of yours in a slim and reliable word processor. I simply cannot keep working with these problems, and feeling worried all the time, wasting time correcting and fixing Apple programmers issues. If this trend continues, I'll be FORCED to switch to Dropbox (I'm already using it for most frequently edited files). And maybe Word... One word, besides syncing problems: AUTOCAPITALIZATION. For ****'s sake, Apple.

I tried this but initially nothing happened. Then I deactivated iCloud Documents in System Settings and reactivated it and voila - all documents are showing up.

I had the same problem and this helped like a charm! Thanks!

Had the same issues in OSX 10.11 GM (El Capitan) which has been solved using your recipe.

Go to ~/Library/Application Support

Move the folder CloudDocs to the trash.

Kill the processes cloudd and bird using Activiy Monitor or Temrinal.

Your iCloud Drive starts downloading your stuff suddenly.

Thanks,

Peter

I am not seeing my iCloud drive files on my Mac. They are not downloading.

I tried trashing the CloudsDoc and killing bird and cloudd, but still not resolved.

My iCloud folder on my iMac (on Yosemite) was not syncing... all I did was back up my local iCloud files, go to Systems Preferences click on iCloud, uncheck the iCloud Drive checkbox (your computer will remove local files stored on the computer associated with iCloud), recheck the box and your folders will be repopulated with the files you have stored on iCloud.

AT LEAST THIS IS THE THEORY - it seems to have worked but there are no guarantees... and whether it remains in sync is another question.

The linked message by PatrickDotStar solved the issue I had on Yosemite then on El Capitan.

Sync is working like a charm now.

I have some more information that my help

I have two macs both partially syncing to iCloud drive.

To try and resolve the problem I wanted to log out of iCloud drive so I first tried to back up my data (200Gb) to an external disk but the copy stopped after a few GB.

I then investigated the copy and found that it had stopped at the first file that in the original iCloud drive directory had a cloud symbol with a down arrow against it. In the iCloud drive directory I could not open the file.

Next I down loaded and replaced file from my www.clouddrive.com site. I had to delete the original as the new file did not over write the old one. At this point I could open the new file in the iCloud drive directory.

I then tried to do a new copy to the external drive of the iCloud drive directory this was more successful in that it got further this time and continued until it hit the next file that had the cloud and down arrow symbol.

The problem seems to be that some files are not downloaded properly even though they can show as being quite large and have an application identifier after the dot.

It is my assumption that the same problem that prevents the file being copied also prevents it correctly syncing.

It is not practical for me to replace all the files that have the cloud arrow symbol as I have 1000 but if you only had a few it may solve your problems if you replaced them.

Hope this helps