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• Help me stop iCloud Sync in Mac OS Sierra!

  I upgraded to macOS Sierra 2 days. During Setup, I selected 'Use iCloud Drive' as I had used it with El Capitan on my MacBook Pro. The installation is complete, and I started to open my apps to see what was broken in the installation process. Also, I decided that I didn't want to use the new functionality of the Sierra that synchronized documents in iCloud and deleted the old ones to save space. I opened system preferences and unchecked optimize Mac storage in iCloud preferences, but I checked the Documents and the down payment in the same pane. I closed the preferences and started working on something else, but when I got back to the office later, I discovered that WHAT I had on the desktop was gone! I opened my iCloud drive icon and, of course, the office record shows with a cloud beside him. Then, I received a warning from sync box that my Inbox folder was gone and must be relinked. I opened the folder and ALL the files inside disappeared. Immediately, I went into system preferences and unchecked, the Documents and the desktop option, hoping things would return. They do not have. Now, iCould drive tries to download files to the cloud (that there is enough room to do it in the cloud), but it won't stop the synchronization. He moved 1 99 GB of data at a very slow pace. Now, when I go to system preferences to open iCloud and turn off sync, preferences system hangs and I have to force quit the program. I opened the folder of the iCloud drive and shows a synchronization of spinning in the lower right, but she apparently never connects.

  What I have to do to stop the iCloud sync, remove the files he has downloaded back to my Mac and fix my system preferences pane if I open preferences iCloud again?

  Let me add that ALL the contents of the My Documents folder disappeared. They show in iCloud drive in a folder of Documents with clouds beside files. How can I get those on my Mac?

• ICloud sync broken between Yosemite (too old for El Capitan) Mac and iOS9.3 on devices, for all Apple applications. Any solution?

  Since that is new iPad and iPhone one last week, with iOS 9.3.4, I can't rely on iCloud (iCloud Drive) for synchronization between these devices and my iMac on docs or entries that I create in Pages, Numbers, calendar, Contacts, Notes, reminders.

  With no synchronization goes, I am now frustrated with Apple based applications.  The only solution is to buy a new iMac that can do El Capitan for iCloud to synchronize?

  My 2008 iMac cannot go beyond the latest version of Yosemite.  Even apps that I continue to use without problems - except iCloud who can't do what it should.  According to me, only yosemite on the iMac in 2008, was made bankrupt by the last iOS.

  That's the problem - unless someone has found a workaround.  Without a functional iCloud, sync that I've been waiting for has disappeared.  I need to change how to manage what I do on the devices and the computer.

  I would like to find a way to "merge" safe documents created in these applications on both devices and the computer. Initially a merger will have duplicates.  I can't let the docs on any device replace the docs on the other.

  To avoid any loss of docs on any device and computers, I'm afraid to try to use iTunes.  So I won't try it.  Maybe I need to go "manual" and look at the files on each and do the merge manually, by sending an e-mail.  Help!  I discovered this by accident and now that I look closer I see that synchronization does not occur.

  between Yosemite Mac (too old for El Capitan)

  Any Mac that can run in Yosemite can run El Capitan. Early 2008 iMacs can run El Capitan.

• How can I have two desktops on iCloud sync at the same time, without having duplicate files?

  Hi all

  I have two computers, a MacBook Pro and iMac. I use the new feature for Sierra macOS, which allows me to continually synchronize my office on iCloud. I welcome the Office on my iMac be synchronized on the cloud. Now, I would have the exact same office on my MacBook Pro. I tried many ways, including by dragging files to iCloud Drive on my desktop, but the synchronization does not work. If I enable syncing on my MacBook Pro, I know that I have duplicate files.

  With this method, I would like to: whenever I have add a file on my desktop iMac computer, it shows up on my MacBook Pro Office without the need for me to keep about iCloud road opening.

  Thanks for reading this.

  Ethan

  If you enable sync on the MacBook Pro, it should not be duplicates.  What makes you think it?

• iCloud sync works do not all of a sudden

  I have iMac, iPhone, iPad 9.7 Pro and iPad Air-1 - 6s all set up to sync, and everything was fine until a few weeks ago.

  Safari & photo stream always sync ok, but the Contacts, calendars, reminders are synchronized with all devices.

  The latest appears in iCloud.com - what is good.  Also appears in applications of iMac - it's good.  But do not show up in the iPhone or the iPad unless news comes from the device.  New iMac also will not sync to devices.

  (Using the new iMac with OS 10.9.5 and all devices with iOS 9.3.1 - was ok in this way until recent times)

  Any ideas?

  Try the settings/iCloud and remove the synchronization. Wait a few minutes and then resynchronize.

  Have you tried the signature to iCloud and then reconnect?

• Disable the iCloud sync iBooks books and PDF option

  I activated the iBooks to iCloud download so it would sync my books and PDF documents. Now, I can't find a way to turn it off!

  System Preferences-> iCloud-> iCloud drive-> options-> delete the control of iBooks

  I hope that helps!

  Lilly

• iCloud sync for notes - two sets of notes on the same account

  Hi, I have something very unusual. In short, some time last year, it looks like notes on an account, which are synchronized in iCloud, split: now, the notes synced to iPhone/iOS or iCloud.com are the same, but they are different from the notes synced on two different Macs (MBA and MBP). Both Mac show the same set of notes - which, again, is different from the whole shown in iCloud and iOS.

  I tried disabling sync on Macs, disabling Notes containers and disabling sync on the iPhone. In cases that made a difference, tried separately and simultaneously. In each case, when the notes are synchronized to iCloud, they continue on this divergent synchronization.

  New changes made on a mac show on another mac, but not iCloud.com or iPhone.

  Changes made on the issuance of iCloud.com/iPhone on the other, but not the MacBooks.

  100% here is the same iCloud account and notes in the Notes application are notes belonging to this iCloud account (indeed, no other account cannot synchronize the notes, besides I have cleared the cache / deleted to force containers). And yet once, it is reproduced on the 2 devices.

  If this account could have really two streams of Notes being synced? What can I do to get it to one on all devices (no need to merge)? Thank you.

  WHAT IOS and OS are you using? If your IOS is the version 9 and Notes iCloud you upgraded, then the computers must be using 10.11 and Notes iCloud upgraded.

• Migration? or use iCloud Sync?

  After 3 years with Mountain Lion this iMac came with, I intend to upgrade to El Capitan. I prefer to do a clean install to simply upgrade to OS X. My iMac has become a bit lazy late, and I think he deserves to start a new life, don't you think?

  I did a test using a newly formatted laptop hard drive. Part of the installation of OS X, I used the Migration option (without migrating applications, which I intend to reinstall fees). Once I rebooted, it was such a pleasure to see my desktop look alike and to be able to use my Contacts, mail and Safari perfectly, as if I was still in ML. What a blessing!

  But I understand that designates the Migration ALL movement to my "new computer" which probably also means a lot of "junk" that has accumulated over the past 3 years, the cause that is probably in my slow iMac... A friend suggested that I better leave iClouds alone to update my sync settings.

  So I reformatted the laptop drive and did another test, this time the upgrade without the Migration option. Now, I have my Contacts, Safari has all my favorites, but my email software is bit messed up, does not show my old messages, but a lot of records, how my mail is saved to my library folder.

  Seems to me that using Migration would make the process much easier update, but is it possible to use it selectively, only migrate my email data, for example?

  Thank you!

  No migration assistant do not put on a lot of old junk from previous systems, just your own Junk (read users folder). Applications are updated and the old applications are replaced by new ones. This isn't what makes lazy. Unfortunately, run migration after the initial installation will result in your Mac create a new user account and this will present all kinds of headaches. If you plan to do, wipe the drive and start again.

  If you want to know what may be what actually slow download and run EtreCheck, created by one of his own assistants here in CSA. It is a diagnostic tool that is very useful for us to find problems. It will also give us additional specifications on your Mac. After his execution after the logfile here. It will never contain any personal information

• Problem with the iCloud sync

  Hello!

  For some reason that I don't understand, my library of Photos Mac synchronization with iCloud ceased (as he was no longer considered to be Photo library system). My problem: I clicked on the button "Use as system library" (maybe it's not exactly these baths on the button I use the french version of the Mac App) but now, when I try to choose iCloud photo library, it does not continue the synchronization where it stopped but want the App fully load the library without deleting the old. As my old library (synchronized) 120 GB and my real 170go (so 50 GB not synchronized yet), I don't have enough space on my 200 date for each other iCloud account... The best solution might be to delete the old library, but I'm afraid of losing my local photos by doing this...

  I hope that I was clear enough...

  You have a solution to help me solve this problem?

  Thank you very much! Martin

  Disable the iCloud library in System Preferences > iCloud > photos (options). This stops the synchronization and does remove all photos of your Mac (assuming that you have not used the optimized option previously)

  Delete all the photos in the cloud to iCloud.com, also remove deleted photo album and make sure you have recovered your space.

  reactivate the iCloud photo library of system preferences.

• notes from the iPhone will not sync for Mac

  I use iCloud-based limited - find my iPhone, iCloud Drive, reminders, Notes, and news. Settings for iCloud shows these three elements under tension. Unfortunately, Notes does not sync to Mac now or never. Settings for iCloud shows that the Mac and the iPhone are connected to iCloud. I don't know if new is sync for iCloud, as there is no icon for it on the web page of iCloud.

  In settings iCoud on the Mac, it is not a single entry in notes even if there are 15 different notes on the phone which are changed daily on the lists. On the phone, there is a 0 for the notes in iCloud.

  As far as I know, Notes should work, but I can't say what the problem is.

  In settings > Notes "on my iPad" - account checked or not?

• iCloud drive with Sierra problems

  When I upgraded to Sierra, during the implementation, I registered inadvertently to the top enable My Documents & Desk Top to synchronize without realizing account. Everything was going well in the Finder, until I realized that I was looking for to iCloud Drive/Documents not iMac/Documents and realized what I had done. I went in the iCloud preferences and unchecked Documents & Desk Top iCloud Drive options but I got a pop up stating 'If you keep Documents on your desk and you file Documents will be visible in iCloud drive away. No documents in iCloud drive are deleted. "

  I want to stop iCloud sync my Documents and office of the road and come back as it was before moving on to the Sierra of Finder.

  Hello man pine.
  Thank you for using communities of Apple Support.

  If I understand your message which is more, you want to use iCloud drive and are concerned that you have received the message, "If you keep Documents on your desktop and you file Documents will be visible in iCloud drive away. No document will be deleted from iCloud drive. "When you disable iCloud Drive, the folder remains in the Finder, but you can move the documents from the folder of the iCloud drive to your Documents folder or any other folder of your choice. The only difference is that any changes to these documents will not be synchronized via iCloud to your other devices.

  Best regards.

• iCloud synchronization with outlook

  Six days (8 August) icloud leave synchronize with outlook on my computer. I have a system with outlook 365-2016 10 windows and everything worked very well since last January. Suddenly, my contacts and calendar are entirely synchronization and I have tried everything I can find on the web and in the posts but nothing seems to work. Someone at - he found a solution to this? Here's the interesting thing, I have an older laptop (Acer) Windows 7/outlook 365-2016 and to this day, it remains perfectly synchronizes. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Hello Egcamp1951,

  Thank you for using communities Support from Apple. I know have a problem with iCloud and Outlook is not what you expect. The good news is that these articles will be useful for troubleshooting and solving your problem with iCloud sync Outlook contacts and calendar on your computer Windows 10 data:

  Get help using Outlook with iCloud for Windows

  Get help using iCloud for Windows

  See you soon!

• Container of notes in iCloud drive deleted by mistake

  After many sync problems with Notes, I decided to start from scratch. I backed up all the notes on my Mac, disconnected all iCloud drive and then removed from the Notes container in stock to manage devices. It was clearly a mistake - I realize now I should have deleted the data inside of the container. Initially, I imagined that when I went on iCloud sync on one of the devices (Mac, for example) the container should be recreated automatically. Of course, it was not. Mac and iPhone are both showing some iCloud Notes - I entered the data from different test on both devices - and sync turns ball is encouraging. But no synchronization takes place and no container in managing storage.

  I checked Time Machine to see if I could find the container but the contents of the iCloud drive seems to not be recorded (unless I'm missing something or do not wait long enough).

  So I need to recreate the container, if possible. Is it possible to do it without having to reinstall OS 10.11.6?

  I'm not sure I know what notes, your average container. I have no record of notes in iCloud drive or system preferences > iCloud > manage, I don't see where else you would mean that if you were opening the hidden locations.

• ICloud drive is slow for anyone else?

  I had this problem in the last days. It all started during the July 4th weekend. I tried to add a 34 KB PDF file reader iCloud on my end 2007 27 "iMac running the most recent version of Yosemite. When I did, he began the process of synchronizing the file to iCloud (with the symbol of the cloud after the name of the file), but he never knew. All I saw was a progress bar gray who moved for hours. So, I out of the iCloud folder and tried to download it directly through iCloud.com. This time, I saw the file appear on my Finder but with the brand "always download" (a cloud with an arrow pointing down) and once more a bar of growth that does not seem to move for hours.

  Long story short, after trying all the usual steps to solve the problems with iCloud, (turn on iCloud drive in the preferences system/turn off; exiting/entering my account iCloud; as well as some yet more "BOLD" steps such as the abolition of the CloudDocs folder in my library system, quit the 'cloudd' and 'bird' processes using activity monitor) (, then rebooting my iMac), I have now several files I had stored in iCloud drive being perpetually stuck "Download". Curiously, all these files are the app third party in their library respective App except for a RTF file created using TextEdit. The files that I saved in TextEdit on iCloud synced within a reasonable (although slow to KB of size of plain text files).

  Moreover, I also reset my modem wifi and cable, but without any change in the result.

  My Console is showing many connection errors, delays in waiting, and other stuff that I don't understand not everything revolving around iCloud associated services or processes. So, I think that something is happening with iCloud himself. I read a few threads on other sites that there is a possibility that this could be a problem with sandboxing, but I have no confidence the fix that was suggested, so I hope that someone here will have some clues or tips. If it's a matter of Sandboxing, this could explain why the files are not downloaded/uploaded are third-party applications.

  Yes, a couple other posts commented on files do not download or upload to iCloud by car since nearly 30 June - 4 July.

• iPhotos, photos, iCloud?

  I just transferred my huge library of iPhoto (120GB) to Photos app on my iMac, which is not sync to iCloud, but they are all stored on a local hard drive.  I also have iPhone where I backup all of my Photos on iCloud (25 GB) - and can see all these when I go into the Photos on my Macbook Air, where I don't store any separate photos.

  My question is (and I tried Googling and forums search) - if I turn now on iCloud sync on my iMac, photos from the iMac Photos get uploaded to iCloud Photos?  Then the pictures in the iCloud for my phone download on my iMac and get them merged into the local library?  And what of my phone and macbook air?  Can see all the photos of my iMac on the macbook Air (not on the phone, I'm going to assume that this is a one-way synchronization to iCloud only?).

  I'm trying to find the best way to consolidate somewhere, all my pictures from my phone and my iMac...  Without all these transfer to my macbook air does not take valuable storage capacity.

  Thank you!! (And my apologies, I am a newbie in the forums, where my question is not worded correctly!)

  When you enable iCloud photo library on multiple devices, pictures of these separate devices will download to iCloud photo library to create a photo library unified in iCloud. And all the photos that you upload to iCloud photo library will be uploaded to all devices that use iCloud photo library.

  The library will be updated to be the same on all devices.  Do not enable iCloud library on where you don't want to have all your photos uploaded to devices.

  You could disable iCloud photo library on your MacBook Air, or use the "Optimize Mac Storage" option.  While the MacBook Air will only download small and optimized your photo versions and does not store the originals of complete sizes.