Cloudy with a Chance of Insanity: Unsticking iCloud Drive
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#2I’ve given up on using iCloud Drive, despite having Apple everything, because I find the sync so unreliable and undebuggable. I never had any issues like this with OneDrive or Dropbox.
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#3> killall bird
As mentioned in the article this is a helpful command, I use it a couple times a week whenever iCloud syncing is stuck (sadly).
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#4From the comments on the article:
"The issue for me was that the Safari iCloud interface would balk at files larger than 10 GB even though the iCloud handles files up to 50 GB."
Wow. Those are ridiculous limitations.
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#5From the comments on the article: "The issue for me was that the Safari iCloud interface would balk at files larger than 10 GB even though the iCloud handles files up to 50 GB." Wow. Those are ridiculous limitations.
Might be browser limitations? Firefox for instance only allows you to store 10GB of data per eTLD + 1. How would the web interface work with files greater than that?
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#6I love that they named the cloud document sync daemon `bird`; people who've been using Apple's cloud services for a while may remember that MobileMe had a "Back to my Mac" feature which worked by creating a 6to4 tunnel and running the other bird daemon (BIRD Internet Routing Daemon) to manage routing. I wonder if there are any versions of macOS that ever had to have both bird daemons running at the same time?
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#7> killall bird As mentioned in the article this is a helpful command, I use it a couple times a week whenever iCloud syncing is stuck (sadly).
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#8increasingly my mac has critical issues that are undebuggable due to apple services (family sharing, etc)
For about 3 months my mac had 1second network delays when opening any new connections, but only sometimes? The console wasn't much help as the failing services were all secret apple things with error/failures but no usable logs.
good luck
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#9I had very similar issues culminating in losing a non-insignificant amount of data. Despite being locally stored on multiple computers, an issue with iCloud Drive caused it to be deleted off of all.
I’ve since moved all my data out of iCloud Drive (although I still use it for their other services like photos). I thought my case was just special but I’ve encountered similar issues helping friends/family.
It’s beyond me how they get away with people thinking it “just works” and how they can’t manage to make a simple cloud sync service.
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#10I’ve given up on using iCloud Drive, despite having Apple everything, because I find the sync so unreliable and undebuggable. I never had any issues like this with OneDrive or Dropbox.
Really? I have had horrible issues on OneDrive if my connection is bad. Including extremely frustrating things like reverting files to older versions and completely deleting all of my local work. Admittedly, that was ~3 years ago before I switched to GDrive.