Icloud drive setting up

My i cloud drive setting up for two days now. all it says is this
Can someone please help.

It will depend on how much data has to be moved to iCloud Drive. 30 minutes is a long time, but not unbelievable.
talltenor wrote:
My MacBook Air has been "setting up iCloud Drive" for 15 hours!
It's failed. Reboot and try again.

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I just loaded Yose on my macbook pro and I am trying to set up iCloud Drive...it has been spinning in set up mode for over an hour.

I started to have the problem when I was trying to sync 1Password after first loading Yose...and before I set up iCloud Drive via systems preferences. I fixed it by quitting the set up and re-booting a couple of times and starting over from system preferences/icloud. When I quit the set-up I just ok'd the warnings about not being able to access iCloud data. But not-to-worry all data seems to be available.

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You're going to find that pretty much every cloud storage system works in a similar way. Some, like OneDrive, will allow you to select what folders sync to and from every machine it's installed on.
Maybe something like that would fit your needs better.

I have just upgraded to the new OS X V. 10.10.3 but cannot access my iCloud Drive documents using the resident Pages and Numbers software on my MacBook Pro. Help needed.

I have just upgraded to the new OS X V. 10.10.3 but cannot access my iCloud Drive documents using the resident Pages and Numbers software on my MacBook Pro. Help is needed to access those documents using the resident software on my MacBook Pro rather than the Beta software on iCloud.com.

I have iCloud Drive set on the Finder sidebar and use that to open the Numbers Spreadsheet on iCloud.
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I have Numbers spreadsheets in an iCloud drive set up on my iMac with one Apple ID, and I have a different Apple ID for my iPad and iPhone and a third Apple ID for my wife iPad and iPhone. Is it possible for us to access the iCloud drive on the iMac with our iPads and iPhones that have different Apple IDs that the iMac?

iCloud Drive will not work until you are running Yosemite which is not yet released. Turn it off. If you are running the Yosemite beta, then we will not provide support for you here.
When you downloaded the beta software you agreed to an NDA and were provided with a special forum for discussions and bug reporting. Please use that forum.
Posting here about beta software is both a violation of the NDA and the forum rules.
Your post has been reported to the moderators for removal.

I used the wrong email account when setting up ios8 iCloud drive, how can I change it on my iphone5?

I used the wrong email account while setting up iCloud drive during the upgrade to ios8, how can I change it on my iphone5?

See the iCloud account FAQ:Creating an iCloud account: Frequently Asked Questions for info on managing the account towards the bottom of the FAQ.

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I found another way to correct this...
1) Select Message, then go to Preferences,
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5) Look at what is checked under the "You can be reached for messages at:"
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It will depend on how much data has to be moved to iCloud Drive. 30 minutes is a long time, but not unbelievable.
talltenor wrote:
My MacBook Air has been "setting up iCloud Drive" for 15 hours!
It's failed. Reboot and try again.

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I had the same issue. I logged in & registered the device SN (several other devices (SN's) are already associated with the account). I don't know if this is simply coincidental or not, but as soon as I did that the new mac book pro continued into setup & eventually finished booting up & is now apparently pulling in user/account settings. I still have to confirm the iCloud Drive setup, but so far at least it moved on past the 'spinning wheel.'

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I installed Yosemite on three Macs the day of release and I noticed that all three automatically turned on iCloud drive. Problem is that after two days, when I open iCloud in Preferences, it still says that iCloud drive is being set up. Meanwhile I have files I need to access on iCloud and I can't reach them. Any suggestions about what I can do? TIA

I've managed to fix this problem by signing out of iCloud altogether and signing in again.
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ICloud Drive will not work on my iPad 3. Pages crashes when I try. Setting resets to off after it crashes. any suggestions?

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From the Ipad manual - actually the same in Ipad, Ipod, Iphone --- the support site listed has frequently asked questions on Icloud drive.
Set up iCloud Drive
You can set up iCloud Drive using Setup Assistant when you install iOS 8, or you can set it up later in Settings. iCloud Drive is an upgrade to Documents & Data. When you upgrade to iCloud Drive, your documents are copied to iCloud Drive and become available on your devices using iCloud Drive. You won’t be able to access the documents stored in iCloud Drive on your other devices until they are also upgraded to iOS 8 or OS X Yosemite. For more information about upgrading to iCloud Drive, see support.apple.com/kb/HT6345.
Set up iCloud Drive. Go to Settings > iCloud > iCloud Drive, turn on iCloud Drive, then follow the onscreen instructions.

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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.
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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.

"setting up iCloud drive" keeps going, and never stops?

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It will depend on how much data has to be moved to iCloud Drive. 30 minutes is a long time, but not unbelievable.
talltenor wrote:
My MacBook Air has been "setting up iCloud Drive" for 15 hours!
It's failed. Reboot and try again.

Stuck at "setting up icloud drive"

Hello,
I seem to be having another problem with Yosemite. It's been 12 hours and multiple reboots and icloud drive is stuck in finder saying "Setting up iCloud drive" and it's spinning like it's working.
Nothing is happening.
Anyone else with this problem?

Yes I encountered this and an Apple Tech walked me through it last night...
First (before call support), I used Force Quit to quit that process (there was a com.apple.... app showing up in red there so I quit that)
Then I rebooted and saw that iCloud Drive was actually on.... however my reminders and calendars weren't checked off and when I tried to check them I ran into the same spinning beachballs problem.
When I called Apple support, they had me remove my iCloud account form the computer, then had me remove some o0f the reminder and calendar files form the Library... reboot and re-sign into the iCloud account.... everything set up perfectly at that point....
I'm sorry I don't remember the folders they had me remove from the Library, but if you give support a call (they escalated mine to an engineer) they should be able to walk you through it... in case its helpful, here is my case number for that issue: 390690794 ... customer support might be able to look up the steps to correct from that case number without having to escalate you to the next level for support....

Icloud drive setting up

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