Re: Refreshing iCloud Drive

Okay, I went back to iCloud settings in the iPhone, and iCloud in System Preferences, made sure I had everything checked, and then launched iCloud.com in Safari on the Mac. After I logged in and went through all that 6-digit verification code stuff…dah-dah-bang,

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Likely you are correct. I need to go back and see if I set up something incorrectly. It’s strange that a couple files are updating to fairly recent vintage, but most of them are stuck back in the dark ages. Dave Woodworker, engineer, musician, Oregonian, and pioneer > On Feb 21, 2020, at

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Hmmm. That is odd. Like I said, 5 minutes should be the longest you have to wait from my experience. If you go to iCloud.com on the web, are the files there as far as you can tell? Is your Mac set to optimize or to keep everything local? Later... Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple

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It’s been happening for a long time. I never really paid much attention, but when I am away from the computer, and the iPhone has a pile I would like, it’s irritating to not find it updated. There are several piles that should be showing up as recent, since many of them are updated on a daily

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Dave, Did you just start syncing things in your Documents and Desktop folders, or has this supposedly been syncing for quite a while? If it's brand new, then it may take a while for everything to move up to iCloud then be visible to the iPhone. If it's not a brand new thing, I have seen it

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I ran into this issue with the Notes App just yesterday. Being very new to the Mac I presumed I was missing something or doing it wrong and called Apple Accessibility. After going through everything he knew to do the rep assisting me concluded that it was a technical problem, referred it to