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Herminia Remmen
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).
I have confirmed that it works after I realized that most of my systems will choke on all the extra files, until they are all updated. Since a bunch of stuff breaks (Mail plug ins and my beloved AirFoil), I only have Sierra running on one partition of my Mac Pro.
Great! When i force quit "bird" on my Activity Monitor (which was using 99.7% of my CPU), it stopped the transfer and apps stopped crashing immediately on the Open / Save dialogs. It of course restarted the transfer, but now its actually progressing. I also followed advice from yellowchilli and rechecked the box and now my files re-appeared on my Desktop and in my Documents.
The same thing happened to me when I changed my apple id email account. Everything went haywire and icloud deleted my desktop and documents folders. However, when I go into "all my files" in finder, all of the files that used to be on my desktop are in the all my files section.
On SystemPreferences/iCloud/iCloud Drive/Options, I checked the "Desktop a Document Folder". After several hours, all of my D&D files appeared top be on iCloud. However, the disk usage (Unix command du) showed that my mac's disk usage had not changed. Based on further reading, I decided that I didn't want D&D on iCloud, so I copied (or moved?) the files from iCloud Drive to my mac. When I thought they were there, I unchecked SystemPreferences/iCloud/iCloud Drive/Options/ "Desktop a Document Folder". Presto! my files were gone. Both places. Only aliases remained on my mac that couldn't be resolved.
I tried the "restore" trick mentioned by another poster, above. iCloud Drive said it was trying to restore 1,000 files (a small fraction of what I had had), but reported problems doing so. None the less, many of those files were restored, without the directory structure; that is, they were simply dumped into one folder.
I don't understand iCloud Drive, despite reading several articles by Apple and others. I dont' even know how to go about understanding what it did to my file system (after 35 years of programming on UNIX).
iCloud is an absolutely disgrace. As a software developer myself, I would feel totally ashamed to have produced a piece of software, like this. I use XCode, and iCloud kept deleting project files and reverting files back to previous versions. In the end I just copied all my XCode project folders into my home directory, which is unaffected by iCloud. I didn't dare turn iCloud off, after all the horror stories I have heard. My advice, is only use iCloud for things like Word/Text Documents or documents you don't mind losing...
I formatted my external HDD by mistake. This software -drill-3-brings-file-recovery-tools-to-mac-hard-drives recover all my lost data, but it is just free to recover 1gb data, any way, it is money worthy. I've looked for some programs, but all they seem to do nothing, but this software works perfectly.
Hi guys i Think i found out where you can get all the data back (and i dont know why apple would do somthing like this as it is soo stupid) when you chosse to back up your files on icloud (Which i will never do again in the future) a sperate folder is made on you mac calles "icloud Drive (Archive)" it is located in Users > " your computer user name" > iCLoud Drive (Archive) - here you should find all your files that were just deleted ! (well at least i did)
I'm having the exact same issue. I have 50 gigabytes I'm trying to upload to iCloud Drive and it's uploading at what looks to be 500 kb/s... I also have hi-speed internet and I've tried so many things and it's still slow. At this rate it's going to take WEEKS...
My problem was that I had a working iCloud drive on iPhone and Mac, but wanted to add a Windows PC and that one refused to update. The computer would only sync a few files per day (if not zero) for days and weeks. I had tried uninstalling/reinstalling but each time, it would start well for a few hours and they completely freeze.
I have an internet upload speed of 253mbps and it's still zero kb uploaded for a small mb (just a file update on the icloud) after a few days. There are now 100 files that need to be updated on the cloud. What is the reason? I have recently decided to shift everything from Google to Apple and now I'm experiencing this; what's frustrating is that you need these files available across the devices (that's why you're doing this in the first place) and there's no progress at all.
Just bought a new MacBookAir with M1 chip/ Big Sur preinstalled. Upload speeds to iCloud Drive incredibly slow. My previous MacBookAir was a 2013 with Catalina and Uploading to iCloud Drive was extremely fast. Unbelievable.
I also have this problem of absolutely atrocious upload speeds to iCloud Drive. Even worse is the fact that Apple support doesn't even show the simple courtesy of replying to this issue FOR A PAID SERVICE!
I have a 8.6 gB file that has been in the process of uploading for over one hour and the progress bar os at about perhaps 2%! I have no idea if the upload has stalled or what! Have tried logging out, clearing browser cache and logging back in, and the same thing happens.
I am having the same issue. I have 225GB of data to upload (2.4M files) and I don't believe this process will ever complete in this rate. my upload speed is about 250MB (I have a fiber optic with 1GB).
Same issue. My piece of garbage 2017bmacbook pro with a pathetic 121 GB of storage took a dump and I had to reformat the drive and reinstall everything (I did not pick this, it was part of the deal for school). Now trying to download my backed up files from iCloud and if I am lucky I may be done in a month. What the **** apple? Do you have a freaken hamster running on a wheel to power your bandwidth? What year is this? I was considering to get a new computer with more memory and storage and looking into whether I build another computer and use linux or get a better apple... Looks like I will save $2k and have better backups not using Apple.
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