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Violet_Antelope

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Nov 14, 2020
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I'm in the process of retiring my old and very tired 12 inch MacBook to a 2020 intel MBP, and perhaps foolishly, have been using iCloud to transfer my files over the past few weeks. It has gone ok, although VERY slowly, until the last couple of days, when the MBP seems to be refusing to download anything from iCloud at all - even files of only a few megabytes just hang on 'preparing to transfer' endlessly. Googling brought me nothing very useful - use different cloud services, be patient, and some advice about the Terminal I frankly don't understand - could someone kindly advise me?

Many thanks!

ETA. My internet connection is fine, and I'm using the MBP to post here, so I don't believe it's a connection issue. I have enough storage space to hold the files too.
 
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