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Hi Guys, I am new here and greet all of you.
I am an old electronic engineer who spent a part of his life writing complex software for the industry. Today I am retired and write books about vintage electronics (www.k100.biz) and use intensively my two Macs, using icloud to keep them synced.

I am a bit unnerved by iCloud problems. From time to time, I have to stay two days without computer to completely resync them to iCloud.
I posted this on Apple community and was censured.

Honestly I cannot understand how is it possible that in all these years Apple did not provide a solution for all the iCloud problems. Are you not tired of simply suggesting of switching off and on the synchronisation? It takes almost four days if you have 1G or so.
Instead of the very many useless innovations that they provide with every new OS version, just one thing would be useful to solve most of the problems of us unhappy iCloud users: a way to know which is the file were uploading is stuck. It should require not more than an hour of the developer time.
Very, very unsatisfied.
Please don't answer with the usual worthless and obvious suggestions.


It seems to me polite enough, but probably the problem has no solutions and that is the true reason for banning.
Does someone have any suggestions?
Thanks
Gianni
 
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Hi Gianni, and welcome to the forum.

Over the years icloud sync has gotten better and better. I have seen a few times where sync just stops and new files don't get updated on my other Mac. The way that I have been able to address this is to just log out of my user account on the mac that isnt syncing, and then log back in.

One thing to note is that you should have Optimize Mac Storage turned off in the iCloud Drive settings. Otherwise many files wont sync until you try to open them.

I would never recommend that someone turn off and then on syncing since as you said, that can take days.

You haven't said which Macs you are using, or what version of macOS you are on. But next time your sync gets out of wack just try what I suggested and you should be back up and in sync pretty quickly.

You can also click on the i next to your icloud drive inthe Finder sidebar to see the sync activity.
 
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