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....

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