Glenn FleishmanMay 12, 2023
iCloud Drive has hit a very weird bug for me. I've used every Terminal and other solution. It stalls at a certain point—clearly a bad file or something. However, the Finder lacks good tools to pinpoint a fatal file. Does anyone know an Apple engineer I could send information to? It's clearly a combination of macOS and iCloud interaction. I can find other people with a similar problem online, but they typically solved it with one a number of techniques I've tried.
Show threadGlenn Fleishman
What I’ve tried:
• Delete and move lots of different files
• Log out of macOS account and back in
• Restart
• Disable and re-enable iCloud Drive (a huge pain)
• killall bird
• Delete ~/Library/Application Support/CloudDocs
May 12, 2023 at 9:45pmWeb
Show threadGlenn FleishmanMay 12, 2023
When I try to move some folders to see if they're the problem children, I sometimes get this error! Bad all around.
Show threadMark BoberMay 13, 2023
@glennf Reminds me of a bad drive pre-SSD
Show threadGlenn FleishmanMay 13, 2023
@markbober Yeah, it smells like a bad sector or cell, but it isn't in the same place—same file no matter how I move files, so it can't be the same spot on an SSD.
Show threadPeter SmerdonMay 13, 2023
@glennf Why is it that almost every time I open a screenshot like this I try to click the "OK" (or "x") button to close it?
Show threadJon_AlperMay 12, 2023
@glennf Lately… and yeah it’s a pain the $&@# that burns time… I’ve taken to calling in for support. Support calls cost them money, bugs costing money is a motivator to address quality issues. I had a three month arc on an AppleTV bug but it was ultimately fixed.
Show thread(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️‍🌈May 12, 2023
@glennf "sudo killall -9 bird cloudd" is what I usually have to use to reset iCloud Drive - if that is the cause.
Show threadGlenn FleishmanMay 12, 2023
@jann Hmm. I haven't tried that. I've done *killall bird*, which in the past has always worked. I'm not sure about doing that to cloudd.
Show threadJohanMay 14, 2023
@jann @glennf this is what works for me when files don’t want to upload to iCloud
Show thread(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️‍🌈May 14, 2023
@johan @glennf A *bit* OT: The biggest irritating thing I've also found is files don't upload when the system is doing something CPU-intensive...and I *hate* that! When using #DropBox, system load doesn't stop DropBox from doing its job! Why should #iCloudDrive limit activity when system is busy! YES, #Apple, I am doing an #FFmpeg encode on my #M1! There's PLENTY of overhead for uploading to the cloud!