iCloud Drive: How to See the Status of Uploads – The Mac Observer

Boy, I sure have been writing lots of tips about iCloud lately. Is it something in the water? Maybe its the cycle of the moon? Have I finally lost my mind?

No, no, and yes. But that doesnt have anything to do with this tip.

So anyway, Ive been uploading a ton of stuff lately into iCloud Drive. I finally decided that I like it enough to consolidate everything into the Desktop and Documents syncing feature and abandon some other services Im using. But Ive been noticing how supremely unhelpful the little pie chart progress indicator is when Im uploading a large number of files:

That icon, available in Finders sidebar during an upload, is way less info than I want to have sometimes. But how do you get more? Well, one way is toturn on Finders Status Bar, the option for which is under the View menu.

When you do that and click on the iCloud Drive option in Finders sidebar, suddenly youll get a lot more information about your uploads.

Well, thats about a billion times more interesting.

I leave the Status Bar on all of the time anyway, as I like how itll typically show me the number of items in a folder and the space remaining on the drive Im looking at.

In that screenshot, you can see right above the Status Bar that I also have the Path Bar on (View > Show Path Bar). This is helpful if youd like to have a trail of breadcrumbs, so to speak, leading back withinthe folder structure youve navigated through. Any of the location icons in the Path Bar are double-clickable, as well, to return youto someplace youve been. Useful if you tend to drill way deep down into folders and then forget where you came from! Not that I ever do that myself, oh no.

Wait, where am I?

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