iCloud background sync

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iCloud background sync

Hello,

I've recently moved all my document synchronization (iPad-iPhone-macbook) from Dropbox to iCloud due to lack of support of Dropbox with .rtfd file format (in iPad preview). It's around 300 GB of documents. I moved all the documents to the "Documents" folder of the iCloud and let it sync overnight. At morning i saw that it didn't sync all of the data (only around 1.5 GB, which was around the amount of data synced before I left it overnight). From what i assumed and read online is that it wasn't background syncing (the MacBook was on, connected to power and with available internet connection).

My questions:

What are the conditions for the iCloud on mac to sync with the server? does the "Document" folder need to be open? where can I see the conditions for sync process to start?
How can I set it to background sync always? meaning, I want that the iCloud service on my mac will have high priority to push\pull from the iCloud server the latest documents (basically, working in background)

Thank you in advance.

Posted on Oct 13, 2017 8:12 AM

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Eric Root

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Oct 13, 2017 1:44 PM in response to yaronscherf1234

The Documents folder shouldn't have to be open.

The sync should be taking place in the background as long as the computer in on and not in the sleep mode. There is no way for you to give the sync high priority. The sync is a very slow process and with 300 GB to sync, will take a long time. There is no way to change that.

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