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Help Me Stop iCloud Sync in Mac OS Sierra!

I upgraded to macOS Sierra 2 days ago. During the installation process, I selected "Use iCloud Drive" since i had been using it with El Capitan on my MacBook Pro. The installation completed, and I started opening my apps to see what had broken in the install process. I also decided that I did NOT want to use the new Sierra feature that synced documents to iCloud and removed older ones to save space. I opened System Preferences and deselected Optimize Mac Storage in the iCloud preferences, but I DID check the Documents and Desktop setting in the same pane. I closed the preferences and started working on something else, but when I returned to the desktop later, I discovered that EVERYTHING I had on the desktop had disappeared! I opened my iCloud Drive icon and, sure enough, the Desktop folder shows with a cloud next to it. I next received a warning from Box Sync that my Box folder had disappeared and needed to be relinked. I opened the folder and ALL the files inside of it were gone. I immediately went to System Preferences and de-selected the Documents and Desktop option, hoping things would return. They did not. Now, iCould Drive is trying to upload files to the cloud (which there is enough room to do in the cloud) but it won't stop the sync. It has moved 1 of 99 Gb of data at a very slow rate. Now, when I go to System Preferences to open iCloud and turn sync off, System Preferences hangs and I have to force-quit the program. I open the iCloud Drive folder and a spinning sync shows in the lower right corner but it apparently never connects.

What do I have to do to stop the iCloud sync, pull the files it has uploaded back to my Mac, and fix my System Preferences pane so I can open iCloud preferences again?

I did the same and all back on my MacBook Air.

Excellent and thanks

Let me also add that ALL the contents of my Documents folder have disappeared. They are showing in iCloud Drive in a Documents folder with clouds next to the files. How do I get those back on my Mac?

My iCloud is doing the same and I have not tried to stop the upload. All my files are still on my MacBook Air but it's only  uploaded 200kb of 86gib over 3 days.

It looks like it's stopped the upload of Parallels.

I think I have figured it out.

I was reading on Jason Snell's website Six Colors about his experience with this new sync. He turned things off (as I did in my iCloud Settings) and then drug the files from the iCloud folder back to my Documents and on my Desktop and everything came back. I then re-started the computer and I think things are back to normal.

I did the same and all back on my MacBook Air.

Excellent and thanks

I have this problems too, it's uploading parallel's windows 10's from documents! If I stop it I don't have windows 10 anymore and can't use parallels! This is ********, it's upload 19 gb of parallels and can't stop it! It will take forever, internet is **** here! upload is 400kb per second only!!! What can I do????????

First, go to your iCloud settings in System Preferences and uncheck Desktop & Documents Folders at the top of iCloud Drive under Documents, then at the  bottom, uncheck Optimize Mac Storage. Click Done. This turns off the syncing of the files.

Now, open a Finder window find your Documents folder and open it (will be empty). Then open a second Finder window and select the iCloud icon on the left. You will see your files (with cloud icons by some of them. Select them all in this window, then drag the files back into your Documents folder. You will see the Mac pop up a copying files window. Let it finish moving the files (just as if you were copying them from one place to another). Do the same with the Desktop folder both in the iCloud window and find the Desktop folder in your user folder).

Things will be back the way that they were and you will have stopped the syncing that you accidentally turned on.

Jason Snell explains this better in this SixColors article.

Word of advice: let the files complete uploading to iCloud or they will not restore properly when you try to copy them back locally. NOT a fan of this "feature"!!! Bad Apple, bad

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I have a LIMITED data plan.  Just upgraded to Sierra OS.  I need to know how do I get my documents and all the files I had on my desktop back onto my desktop without re-download them?  I use a Verizon Jetpack as my wifi.  I am in an area that has no (as in ZERO) wifi.  I hope you have an easy solution.

I noticed that as soon as I upgraded the Sierra my MacBook Air used up its battery power far more quckly.  My husband has the same computer and saw no change so I figured out it was the huge amount of data that the backup is dealing with that could be the problem. So I wanted to revert back to not using the Icloud drive. The solution mentioned on here looked liked a good one but when I tried to do it, the files could not be moved back because there wasn't enough space on my hard drive because it had all been taken up by Icloud Drive!  So no documents on the computer as all had been moved to Icloud drive but hard drive capacity no different.  So I get on to Apple and they say to get my documents back on my computer I have to move them off the cloud to somewhere else e.g. usb stick or drive then delete everything off the Icloud drive so I get the space back on my hard drive.  Then transfer the documents back in.  It is 17gb

Slowly losing the will to live. 

Hello David, Thank you for the help, but my Mac won't allow me to uncheck Optimize Mac Storage in iCloud Preferences setting. All my Desktop files keep uploading and say waiting.  HELP?  Please????

It keeps reading: If you continue, documents on your Desktop and in your Documents folder will be visible in iCloud Drive only.  No documents will be deleted from iCloud Drive.  Can you help please?

I thought it was fixed but just ended up with problems with XP so had to reload from timecapsule back 24 hours. Now I just live with it as it does not affect the battery.

Why Apple selected this small  upload Limit I don't understand

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