In this question, I learned that the "dotted-line cloud" icon in OS X's iCloud file view means "Waiting to upload". While writing a document in Byword today, I saved it and found it had been marked with this icon - there were several other documents, months old, that still had the "Waiting" icon as well.
Is there any way to, if not force, gently encourage these files to upload to iCloud?
In the terminal touch the file and it is fixed.
touch just changes file metadata (the modification and access times). I like that better than making a change to the file's name or actual contents and then reverting that change!
touch updated my macOS finder from the "dotted line" icon to the solid line icon. Smooth trick.
I was concerned I'd have to save these documents to my local filesystem, delete them from iCloud, and then perhaps save them to iCloud over again, but it turned out that simply re-opening the "Waiting" documents, making a trivial change to them (such as deleting a character and then adding it in again), and then saving the file caused them to be synced successfully.
It seems like the issue is the iCloud daemon hanging. The following command kills that process which causes the OS to restart it. That seems to work in many cases and doesn't require deleting or recreating files.
ps -ef | grep -i 'Support/bird' | grep -v grep | awk '{ print "kill -9 " $2}'|zsh
pkill -f 'Support/bird' (or, if you are on an old version of macOS, kill $(ps -ef | awk '/Support\/bird/ { print $2}')).
kill without the -9 argument), which lets the daemon shut down properly. I just searched for bird in Activity Monitor and selected "Quit".
I just had success by renaming the file (added a space to the end)
Log off or restart the system. This worked for me on Macbook.
I ran into a similar problem but every time I tried to open the file, the hosting application (Keynote in this case) hung. I was able to killall -9 ubd to unwedge iCloud.
I had to shut down and restart my iPad Pro in order to get the PSD file I was trying to upload to finally stop “waiting to upload” and just do it already.
What solved the problem for me was signing off iCloud account and removing the data from all the devices assigned to my account and then signing back in. After doing so on all of my devices (two iMacs and iPhone) and signing back in, syncing worked as it should in iCloud Drive and in Notability.
On the Mac I simply used the Compress command to create a .zip file of the missing file. In one case this was enough to trigger the refresh.
In other cases I had to unzip the compressed file and then check the contents. Once confirmed they were correct I just deleted the original file and the .zip file. I then renamed the uncompressed one that just had a 2 added to the name and everything was fine.
The way I fixed it was to drag one document over another, which automatically creates a folder (like in iOS). Then, I dragged them back out from the folder, and the status waiting status was gone.
The way I fixed “waiting” was to drag one document over another while holding down “option” key.
When I first experienced this problem I tried clicking on the icloud download icon and I received the "waiting" message after about five minutes. However, I checked inside the folder and noticed that other documents also had the "waiting" message. I navigated to the upper level folder and clicked icloud icon of the folder with my "waiting" documents inside. It took about 35 minute and I never navigated away, but all the documents marked as "waiting" eventually downloaded.
If you trying to upload files over mobile data make sure you change icloud settings to allow for sync over mobile data and then try restarting your phone.
I added a document to my files, then changed my icloud setting (which I should've done before trying to upload them) then I found I had to restart my phone before the files actually uploaded to icloud.
I realize this is an old thread but was having this issue recently with macOS Ventura 13.5.2, and this thread was in the top of Google's results.
Opening files/folders didn't make a difference. I opened Activity Monitor and located the Bird service, which is the CloudDocsDaemon, and killed it. macOS re-launched it automatically and instantly, and all my pending files uploaded right away.
2-finger-click the song.
Select "Add song to iCloud music library".
