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icloud drive and documents folder

I just upgraded to Sierra, and decided that it would be a good idea to use the new feature that uploads the Documents and Desktop folders to iCloud. Unfortunately, I'm finding that the process is beyond slow. At the bottom of the Documents window, I see text that indicates it is "...uploading 206139 items (68.3 MB of 160.87 GB). It seems to upload about 50-100 files in short bursts before taking a break of a couple of minutes.  Is this process really this slow or is something wrong? Are there any ways to speed up the process?

In activity monitor, it looks like bird, photoanalysisid, photolibraryd and cloudd are taking up the most CPU time.

I do have a small Dropbox account and SugarSync, but I was hoping that this new iCloud feature might let me get rid of one of the paid systems. 

Many thanks in advance for any possible suggestions!

The process is slow, and probably compounded by the fact that the new Photos app will effectively monopolize your Mac until it's finished with its "analyzing" processes. Depending on the number of photographs you have in Photos Library, it could take days. Expect (very approximately) one hour per 1000 photographs just for that process, and that assumes you are not using your Mac to do anything particularly burdensome during that time.

Any residential Internet service will take a long time to upload 160 GB. That's a lot, and obviously you would need to have purchased an appropriately generous storage plan: iCloud storage plans and pricing - Apple Support.

Subsequent changes to your Desktop and Documents folders will occur incrementally and will take only moments to upload to iCloud.

Just to add to what John pointed out. Assuming a perfect connection, if you have a 100Mbps upload speed it would take nearly 4 hrs to upload 161GBs. 38.5 hrs with10Mbps uploads.

Thanks very much to you and dialabrain for your replies. I do have a pretty extensive photo library (50k photos), so I'm guessing that has a lot to do with the slow speed. Since my post yesterday afternoon around 19 hours ago, I'm up to 1.64 Gigs--about 1% of the way through. It has me thinking that maybe I should put everything in the documents folder anymore. Anyway, it's good to know that it isn't terribly unusual, so I'll rethink my storage plans going forward.

You can check your ISP's upload speed using https://speedof.me/. It does not require Adobe Flash Player or Java.

The upload speeds for most residential grade cable products are generally a small fraction of download speeds... on the order of 5 Mbps or so. Mbps means megabits per second.

Residential upload speeds are often throttled at absurdly low rates which makes for slow going. Besides that having just upgraded your computer will also be doing lots of other things in the background. Knowing this, I waited a while before turning on the new iCloud feature and even then it took nearly 2 full days to complete the upload of 35+ GB of data.

My photos are all synchronized. I have a high (enough) bandwidth connection. My iMac has nothing else to do, and I turned off sleep mode.

It is 10% done with 37 GB after a week of letting it run.

I don't mind it when background apps actually act like background apps, but this is ridiculous. Of course, Apple provides absolutely no way to throttle or accelerate iCloud. We just have to trust the ghost of Steve Jobs to know what's best for us.

最後更新：2017-08-28 09:16:09

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