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Is there a way to enable iCloud Sync telemetry/logging?

Something is getting stuck uploading to iCloud but I can't tell what it is. Popular suggestion is to kill -9 bird but that is not working for me.

  1. Nothing obvious is showing up in Console.app.

  2. Running bird is not helpful either:

>  ./bird -h
Usage: bird [options]

-h,--help            show this help
  1. LaunchAgent com.apple.bird.plist is not very interesting either, though it does point to the sync directory:
<key>com.apple.bird.fsevents</key>
                        <dict>
                                <key>Path</key>
                                <string>~/Library/Mobile Documents</string>
                        </dict>

How can I troubleshoot this?

EightyEight
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    iCloud logging is already enabled. You are gong to need to look a bit harder with Console app. Start by searching for bird or cloudd. I am not suggesting this is the easy solution - just that it is the only way. – Gilby Mar 07 '23 at 23:43
  • @Gilby I see both bird and cloudd in the logs, but there's nothing of use here. I was wondering if there's a way to increase verbosity. – EightyEight Mar 08 '23 at 00:09
  • Maybe the answer you're looking for is to view 'open files and ports' tab for the process in Activity Monitor? For me, bird was going nuts and I didn't care to further troubleshoot it, as I expect it to resolve with the next reboot, and I used killall -sigstop bird to 'solve' the problem 'till then, as I don't need iCloud docs and don't want it downloading tons of stuff unnecessarily. A right click on iCloud shows it's downloading 18GB I don't want it to. – WHO'sNoToOldRx4Covid-CENSORED May 27 '23 at 05:20

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