How do I cancel uploading to iCloud Drive

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How do I cancel uploading to iCloud Drive

Okay, this is driving me nuts, and I haven't found a good answer. I decided I wanted all my photographs in iCloud Drive so added the folder to Documents. I'm not talking about pictures in Photos, so please no helpful hints about iCloud and Photos. I'm talking about a huge amount of RAW documents which I've stored separately in a folder called My Shots, moved them to Documents so the folder would upload, and now the thing has been hanging for almost a week now. It's still uploading, and of course it's interfering with the syncing of small files for work. Can't tell which is being uploaded, so I really can't go in and delete the file. **** Please help.

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (2010)

Posted on Jun 22, 2017 12:02 AM

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Tice Allison Author

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Jun 22, 2017 10:09 AM in response to Tice Allison

Not a bad idea. Respectfully, your suggestion didn't elaborate beyond making the point. Nothing wrong with that, but if you wouldn't mind my asking: is it a suggestion based in high confidence that it'll solve the problem or more of a "you might want to try this and see if it works..." type of answer. Only reason I ask, is I don't want to suddenly be in for more problems waiting for the lion's share of the folder, which is pretty big and (and already uploaded) to download back down from iCloud Drive. Thanks.

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Jun 22, 2017 11:41 AM in response to Tice Allison

It's all you need to do, everything else will be taken care of.

The files shouldn't need to redownload from the cloud because they are already on your Mac*** and you are just moving them to another location on your Mac. Also moving them out of the iCloud Drive folder will result in them being deleted from the cloud.

*** the only reservation to this would be where you have 'store in iCloud' enabled which means that after uploading the files to the cloud the copies on your Mac will be replaced by low-resolution versions. I don't think this happens though until the upload and complete but even if it does there is nothing you can do about it if you want to stop the sync and have the documents on your Mac.

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