ICloud Drive permanently setting up

I upgraded my iMac from Mavericks to Yosemite yesterday. iCloud Drive in System Preferences and Finder seemed to be stuck in 'Setting up...'. Having shutdown the Mac overnight and started it again today iCloud Drive is still 'Setting up...'. I saw this question in the iCloud section of this forum minutes ago but I can't find it now. The earlier message asked whether it might have something to do with having an iPhone 4 running iOS 7, which is also my situation. But we do also have an iPad mini running iOS 8 and it would be nice to able to share files between the Mac and the iPad.
Any suggestions?

I've managed to fix this problem by signing out of iCloud altogether and signing in again.
In detail, I went into System Preferences -> iCloud, clicked the Sign Out button, clicked the Delete buttons for all the individual apps as their dialogues came up and then signed in to iCloud again using my Apple ID and password. The iCloud Preferences dialogue took a while to process the iCloud Drive 'App' and seemed to generate a lot of network traffic but it eventually displayed an Options button just like all the other iCloud-enabled apps. Note that I had to choose the option to delete all files in iCloud because the only other option was to cancel the operation. (I assumed that cancelled the whole process of signing out of iCloud.) As I wasn't using iCloud Drive before deleting all files wasn't a problem for me.

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No you are not being dense, you are just trying to be helpful. I may not have explained the problem very well. Setting up a Family iCloud account works great! However, if that account name is also used for your iMessage, Facetime, and now cellular calls you have an issue with your calls going to the entire family (or worse the thing just not working), your iMessages if multiple phone numbers are trying to use the same icloud account usually get messed up, and their Facetime accounts might end up showing up as you instead of them. In fact, I think you can't call your family members in this situation and I'm not sure iMessage works very well either. So what everyone does is create a personal iCloud account for personal features such as iMessage, FaceTime, etc.
Now in theory I could co-opt the Family iCloud account for my calls, but then no one else would be able to use the call feature, because unless I'm mistaken you can't have multiple phone numbers attached to the call Forward and still have them recognize which calls to forward to which phones. If they don't care for this feature it might work (I'm experimenting now), but I don't think that's what Apple intended.
It is possible to do a switch, which may be what you are suggesting. This would involve creating a separate profile on the computer that is used for making phone calls. I would, however, still need to co-opt the iCloud account for just my number and worse I wouldn't be able to make any calls unless I was in that profile. One of the great advantages of calling from your computer is that you make the call while you are working on something else which is inevitably your work or your personal stuff which is NOT likely to be in the newly created family profile.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I hope this helps you understand either how little I understand of your suggestion or why it doesn't quite meet my needs.

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