This Apple Id Cannot Be Used With Icloud For Windows

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Rebbeca Schulke

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:24:07 PM8/3/24

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yo I had the same problem. it was driving me crazy for months. i just lived with it because i didn't navigate using file explorer into my one drive folder often enough to bother trying to fix it. but as of right now it loads fast.

guess what else? i always had the little notification in the action center popping up a toast saying "failed to create container(s) for icloud drive". and that was another problem that was bugging me for months but i didn't use it frequently enough to bother trying to fix it.

when you click the icloud app and open settings in the taskbar tray, it doesn't let you change the directory of where you want your icloud folder to be stored on your pc. well i turned off the icloud feature, UNchecked the icloud check box, then hit APPLY. then i rebooted my pc. then i went in and was able to change the directory of where icloud wants its icloud drive path to be.

whatever the default path is that icloud picks for your icloud drive to be stored in windows, focus all your effort on changing that path. click apply anytime you make a change. uncheck that icloud drive check box. click apply. click options. change the path. pick somewhere on a separate disk drive or somewhere for it to live. click OK. immediately click apply. reboot pc.

i checked the box to turn on icloud drive again after successfully changing the path where it wants to live and magically i stopped getting the "failed to create container(s) for icloud drive" toast notifications. i hurried to check if OneDrive was still being slow, and lo and behold ITS FAST!

A final note is i would caution against blaming one side or the other (apple or Microsoft) for being at fault for causing this (these) problems for users. in fact in my observation it would seem that both parties are infact doing their due diligence because icloud drive app for windows conflicting with windows native cloud folder handling api's means its trying to adapt itself to work in the windows environment even though it would prefer not to. this is a good thing because it means we have communication back and forth and this facilitates progress and reduces the distance between forces that would rather be separate.

in other words, onedrive is hanging when opening folders because it knows icloud drive is using the windows native api calls that work in parallel with one drive, and its putting one drive on hold because its failing to create containers for icloud drive.

I was able to find a solution that seemed to be causing this issue for me. Open up the File Explorer and click on the Local Disk under This PC (It usually is the C: Drive). From there you should see a folder named Users. Click on the Users folder and open it. It should now show you folders for each of the User Accounts on the PC. Right click on the user folder that the iCloud data is stored to. If you can't see one or don't know which one it is, open up the iCloud settings app and click on the Options button next to the iCloud Drive. This should open up a pop up and tell you the location of where the iCloud folder is stored. It will look something like this C:\Users\(Your User Name)\iCloudDrive. Back to the File Explorer, if you click on the Users folder and opened it and don't see you User folder it means that it has been hidden. In this case right click on the Users folder and click on Properties. Under the General tab in the Attributes section you will find a "Hidden" check box. Uncheck that box and click apply. A popup will appear and you will want to apply everything to this folder AND all of the subfolders. Once you unhide all of the folders, it should begin to work again now that iCloud can locate the unhidden folder where it stores all of your docs. If you are having a hard time finding any of the folders remember that you can type in the location of the folder into the address bar at the top of the File Explorer (ie C:\Users\...) and locate them that way. You might have to type in folder locations and unhide them working backwards from the iCloudDrive folder like I did but I hope this helps you guys as it was able to fix the issue for me.

i have this error too. i tried this and my user folder and my i cloud drive folder are both not hidden. also i cant change the path of the icloud drive folder to, for example, the root folder of a separate disk so that it doesnt have any issues trying to find its folder. i need to be able to change this setting, but this setting is greyed out:

So I updated a machine with a bunch of files on the Desktop and in the Documents folder, and when I upgraded it asked me if I wanted to store these folders on iCloud as well. I hit YES and it began trying to upload everything. Now, I guess I had a large file in one of the folders because the total upload was almost 9GB (i have 200GB of available iCloud space). It failed the upload and has just been stuck on 57kb of 8.89GB uploaded for over a day. I've tried restarting and it hasn't moved. I haven't found a way to quit it either. This has been making my machine incredibly slow and has caused the fans to speed up like crazy. Anytime I try to access an Open or Save dialog, the app I'm using crashes, whether it's Preview, Xcode, Photoshop, or even Safari.

So I went to the iCloud system preferences and unchecked the "Desktop and Documents" item. I figured it wouldn't delete things that were still locally saved on my disk. But I was wrong and now every single file on both my Desktop and in my Documents is gone. Not in the trash, nowhere to be found. Gone.

Can any one help me with this? Has anyone experienced something similar? The iCloud upload is still there and still isn't progressing at all (not sure what its trying to upload anyways since the files were all deleted). My computer is unusable and my files are all gone. I have a Time Machine backup from last week, but I will not have access to for almost 2 more weeks so if there's a way to recover my files sooner and kill this upload task, that would be amazing.

I had the same thing happen to me. I unchecked the iCloud Drive Settings and then rebooted. When it came back up, it was still trying to upload the files. I think the process was called "bird". You can check in the Activity Monitor. Once I dragged all the files out of the /iCloud Folder (local) back to my documents, then I let it percolate and things ended up being okay.

I think Apple needs to put a bit more of a delay in that (e.g. maybe two acceptance boxes). When I clicked on the yes box, I completely forgot that I had several gigs of files in both my corporate and personal Dropbox folders as well as my Onedrive folder. It was the Ondrive yakking at me saying the "default folder has moved" that tipped me off to what was going on. Moving those folders created a bit of a "***" moment. It's all good and the experiece I hope will help others as well as Apple really understand the complexity of moving the contents of the Documents folder to the cloud.

hey, I think there is a way to restore deleted file from iCloud. You can find that option by logging into iCloud from the browser and go to setting. Then you will see restore files. However, the files are only kept for some days (I am not sure how long) before it is permanently removed. Good luck.

It's a bit disappointing reading this every year with every beta. People... if you read this and have not yet installed beta 1 then don't do it. At least don't install it on your primary machine, on your primary hard drive, with your primary apple id and never do it without making an disk image before. (Like with superduper or similar software).