I find it hugely frustrating that iCloud doesn't let you see what its doing when it syncing or how much data it is transferring. Apple want it to just work which is fine in theory but often maddening in practice. An advanced user control panel would be super handy.
Case in point. I just setup my new Mac Mini and the desktop and documents did not appear. I checked Activity Monitor and no data was moving on the network either so I thought, damn iCloud is still buggy. Then 45mins later all the files suddenly appeared with little down icons next to them. I went back to Activity Monitor, it still showed no data moving on the network. Weird, what magic is transferring the files?
Then I set up Little Snitch and noticed it gives you a comprehensive breakdown of everything and I mean everything on the network. It showed the process that was downloading the iCloud data the current rate and the grand total downloaded so far. It even showed me the geographical location of the various servers around the world making the iCloud download work which range from various apple servers to amazon aws servers (yep iCloud uses amazon servers).
So an added benefit of little snitch to its main use of blocking is just seeing what is going on with iCloud.
Case in point. I just setup my new Mac Mini and the desktop and documents did not appear. I checked Activity Monitor and no data was moving on the network either so I thought, damn iCloud is still buggy. Then 45mins later all the files suddenly appeared with little down icons next to them. I went back to Activity Monitor, it still showed no data moving on the network. Weird, what magic is transferring the files?
Then I set up Little Snitch and noticed it gives you a comprehensive breakdown of everything and I mean everything on the network. It showed the process that was downloading the iCloud data the current rate and the grand total downloaded so far. It even showed me the geographical location of the various servers around the world making the iCloud download work which range from various apple servers to amazon aws servers (yep iCloud uses amazon servers).
So an added benefit of little snitch to its main use of blocking is just seeing what is going on with iCloud.
