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Question: Q: «bird» process is taking over

I installed Yosemite and configured iCloud Drive. I copied a lot of files yesterday. Today the fan is on constantly. I see a process in Activity Monitor called «bird» that is constantly near 100% CPU. Any ideas what is going on?

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.0.x)

Posted on Oct 18, 2014 6:44 AM

Here’s what I did. It seemed to work well.

1. I unchecked iCloud Drive in System Preferences
2. I restored the original files from another backup. They had been deleted and rearranged during my initial attempt to put them on iCloud Drive. I made sure they were in another folder so that when I did the following, the restored files wouldn’t get touched
3. I went to the iCloud Drive web interface and deleted all files
4. I checked iCloud Drive in System Preferences
5. A bunch of file showed up in iCloud Drive in Finder – The fan started blowing. I didn’t look at Activity Monitor but I’ll bet bird was using a lot of CPU
6. I deleted all of the files in the Finder (i.e., the iCloud Drive folder)
7. Now there were no files in iCloud Drive – either from the browser view or the Finder view. Back to where I started.
8. I copied about 2 GB of files to iCloud drive.
9. No fan noise. The transfer was relatively quick. I copied another 2 GB of files. Same result.

My conclusion: Do all file curating on the physical drive first. Once I’ve cleaned up and arranged the files, upload them in small batches. After 20 or 30 GBs have been up loaded, future file uploads and file management in the cloud should be fairly low impact.

Hope that helps someone else.

Posted on Oct 23, 2014 7:52 AM

Helpful answers

Just for other readers.

If you open terminal and enter:

brctl log —wait —shorten

You can see a log of iCloud Drive transactions being made.

It looks like the best, current way to view the syncing status of iCloud Drive. You’ll also be able to view when a transaction fails, which lines up with the error message nyeates1 posted, which may be triggering the bird process issue.

Dec 19, 2014 7:20 AM

The ‘bird’ process is indeed the back end process behind iCloud drive. Are all your files copied? If not, it will take some CPU and copy some files until they’re copied. Performance varies; I’ve seen it take quite a while to copy, say, 10 GB of files. How much did you move to iCloud drive?

Killing the process may not help; it will just start up again. You could try restarting, but you may just want to give it time.

Oct 22, 2014 6:39 PM

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I don’t know what is going on, but I would force quit the process in Activity Monitor.

Oct 18, 2014 6:46 AM

I force quit it and it popped back up. I saw another thread that suggested logging out of iCloud Drive and logging back in. I wasn’t sure how to «log out» other than to go to System Preferences and unclick iCloud Drive. When I did that, I got a warning that said it was still uploading files, etc. I unclicked it anyway and bird stopped showing up and my fan stopped.

I have a gut feeling about what happened. I copied files to iCloud Drive the way I normally would: click and drag from Folder X on my MBA to Folder X on iCloud Drive. My objective was to get files off of my MBA and into the cloud to conserve space on my MBA. The apparent operation was very quick. In some cases, when I clicked and dragged the file appeared to be deleted from my MBA drive.

I think Apple has programmed iCloud to look like it’s fast. But file transfer speeds are a factor of many things outside of Apple’s control. It gave me the illusion that all the files were transferred when they really weren’t (I had multiple gigabytes of files). I think what happened is that because I thought everything was done, I closed my laptop. When I opened it again the next morning, iCloud tried to continue the file transfer process. I saw no progress indicator at any time.

Apple provides very little (that I could find) instructions on use. The first time you set up a cloud account, the long pole in the tent is getting all the files over to the new account. After that, file-by-file transfers are fast. I should have remembered that. I will start again and leave plenty of time for the files to transfer. I’ll do it in small batches so that I am sure that the files made it before closing my laptop.

If anyone more knowledgable that I am can confirm or deny the above, I would appreciate it.

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Мгновенно распознавайте птиц!
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