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netcelli Author

Level 1

44 points

iCloud stuck on uploading

Hello,

I decided to move my Documents folder to iCloud using the new Sierra feature. This is to save space on my Mac and to have a backup along with Time Machine. However iCloud does not upload the last docs I have edited and it is stuck on uploading 82.4MB.

I've already tried restarting my Mac or to kill the daemon but it didn't help.

Does anyone know how to solve this issue?

Thanks,

Stefano

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)

Posted on Sep 19, 2016 1:47 AM

26 replies

Eric Root

Level 10

684,537 points

Oct 8, 2016 12:56 PM in response to netcelli

Try going to System Preferences/iCloud and stop syncing. Wait a couple of minutes, then recheck syncing.

Have you tried signing out of iCloud and then sign back in?

Oct 16, 2016 3:37 PM in response to Eric Root

I have this same issue.

Don't see the "stop syncing" button in Preference/iCloud. I can sign out of iCloud, but then there are some other steps involved, and I'm not sure which direction to go. Won't to avoid more problems.

Thanks.

Eric Root

Level 10

684,537 points

Oct 17, 2016 1:29 PM in response to Still youngish

Uncheck the box of the item to stop syncing. Then recheck it.

Oct 17, 2016 1:53 PM in response to Eric Root

Thank you, I will try this!

Eric Root

Level 10

684,537 points

Oct 17, 2016 2:28 PM in response to Still youngish

You are welcome.

Dec 19, 2016 6:59 AM in response to Eric Root

I have 147GB of content. Unchecking iCloud will reset everything. Then I have do everything over again and hope it works better this time. Hmm…

Dec 21, 2016 7:48 AM in response to netcelli

I also was stuck on the "uploading x items to iCloud" problem for Documents and Desktop items (not photos). (If you see iCloud in your finder window Sidebar, then click on the little i in the circle, you'll see that popup.

To solve this, go to the iCloud System preference, then iCloud Drive "Options", then uncheck "Desktop and Documents Folders". It will warn you that unchecking the box will remove the items in those folders from your Mac ⚠, but that they'll be saved in your online iCloud. It will ask verification to "Turn Off". It then gives you the option to Archive all of the items in those two folders, which is what you want to do. A folder called "iCloud Drive (Archive)"is created in your Home folder. You want to chose that option because you then really haven't deleted those items from your Mac (their not even compressed), and they are recovered more quickly when you then turn the "syncing" (as some have referred to it here) back on. (I'm not really sure they are recovered from that folder, but it was quick enough that I believe that's what happened, rather then re-downloading them from my online iCloud.) The "iCloud Drive (Archive)" folder doesn't automatically disappear after reactivating "syncing", so once you've verified the Desktop and Documents folders have been "replenished" again, you can delete the Archive folder manually.