I had a similar experience to original poster I lost all of my files. It's all good and the experiece I hope will help others as well as Apple really understand the complexity of moving the contents of the Documents folder to the cloud. Moving those folders created a bit of a '***' moment. It was the Ondrive yakking at me saying the 'default folder has moved' that tipped me off to what was going on. When I clicked on the yes box, I completely forgot that I had several gigs of files in both my corporate and personal Dropbox folders as well as my Onedrive folder. I think Apple needs to put a bit more of a delay in that (e.g. Once I dragged all the files out of the /iCloud Folder (local) back to my documents, then I let it percolate and things ended up being okay. When it came back up, it was still trying to upload the files. I unchecked the iCloud Drive Settings and then rebooted. Imagine if this happened when they released this in the fall. I thought the point of testing was to find things like this. I have a Time Machine backup from last week, but I will not have access to for almost 2 more weeks so if there's a way to recover my files sooner and kill this upload task, that would be amazing.

My computer is unusable and my files are all gone. Gone.Ĭan any one help me with this? Has anyone experienced something similar? The iCloud upload is still there and still isn't progressing at all (not sure what its trying to upload anyways since the files were all deleted). But I was wrong and now every single file on both my Desktop and in my Documents is gone. I figured it wouldn't delete things that were still locally saved on my disk.

So I went to the iCloud system preferences and unchecked the 'Desktop and Documents' item. Anytime I try to access an Open or Save dialog, the app I'm using crashes, whether it's Preview, Xcode, Photoshop, or even Safari. This has been making my machine incredibly slow and has caused the fans to speed up like crazy. I've tried restarting and it hasn't moved. It failed the upload and has just been stuck on 57kb of 8.89GB uploaded for over a day. Now, I guess I had a large file in one of the folders because the total upload was almost 9GB (i have 200GB of available iCloud space). I hit YES and it began trying to upload everything. So I updated a machine with a bunch of files on the Desktop and in the Documents folder, and when I upgraded it asked me if I wanted to store these folders on iCloud as well.

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