iCloud Drive bug?

[LarrikinAus]

Hi Folks,


As you may be aware, the iCloud drive stores the actual files in this location:

~/users/username/library/mobiledocuments/

Since upgrading to Sierra, I notice the same documents are DUPLICATED TWICE in the following directory:

~/Users/username/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs/9fadf220be21a0ed291ebfeafdfdsf434sa

My icloud drive is 24 gig.

That cache directory is 60 gig.

I presume this is a bug?

 

[blasto2236]

Difficult to say. Given that iCloud backups don't exist yet for Macs, maybe this is a failsafe in case any weird issues happen with the files, or if a bug causes the OS to think there is low storage and starts deleting things?

 

[grahamperrin]

No comparable multiplication here:

sh-3.2$ find ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/ -type file
/Users/grahamperrin/Library/Mobile Documents//com~apple~CloudDocs/8,817M resident memory used by Firefox.png
sh-3.2$ find ~/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs -name "*resident*"
sh-3.2$ find ~/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs -type f
/Users/grahamperrin/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs/9fadf220be21a0ed291ebfea5f836e034473cd93/AssetsDb/Assets.db
/Users/grahamperrin/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs/9fadf220be21a0ed291ebfea5f836e034473cd93/AssetsDb/Assets.db-shm
/Users/grahamperrin/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs/9fadf220be21a0ed291ebfea5f836e034473cd93/AssetsDb/Assets.db-wal
/Users/grahamperrin/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs/9fadf220be21a0ed291ebfea5f836e034473cd93/MMCS/.cs/ChunkStoreDatabase
/Users/grahamperrin/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs/9fadf220be21a0ed291ebfea5f836e034473cd93/MMCS/.cs/ChunkStoreDatabase-wal
/Users/grahamperrin/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs/9fadf220be21a0ed291ebfea5f836e034473cd93/Records/pcs.db
/Users/grahamperrin/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs/9fadf220be21a0ed291ebfea5f836e034473cd93/Records/pcs.db-shm
/Users/grahamperrin/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs/9fadf220be21a0ed291ebfea5f836e034473cd93/Records/pcs.db-wal
/Users/grahamperrin/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs/9fadf220be21a0ed291ebfea5f836e034473cd93/Records/Records.db
/Users/grahamperrin/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs/9fadf220be21a0ed291ebfea5f836e034473cd93/Records/Records.db-shm
/Users/grahamperrin/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs/9fadf220be21a0ed291ebfea5f836e034473cd93/Records/Records.db-wal
sh-3.2$ ls -hlR ~/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs/9fadf220be21a0ed291ebfea5f836e034473cd93/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 grahamperrin  staff    68B 30 Jun 01:09 Assets
drwxr-xr-x  5 grahamperrin  staff   170B 30 Jun 00:55 AssetsDb
drwxr-xr-x  3 grahamperrin  staff   102B 30 Jun 01:09 MMCS
drwxr-xr-x  8 grahamperrin  staff   272B 30 Jun 00:55 Records
drwxr-xr-x  2 grahamperrin  staff    68B 30 Jun 00:54 StagingAssets

/Users/grahamperrin/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs/9fadf220be21a0ed291ebfea5f836e034473cd93//Assets:

/Users/grahamperrin/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs/9fadf220be21a0ed291ebfea5f836e034473cd93//AssetsDb:
total 160
-rw-r--r--  1 grahamperrin  staff    48K 30 Jun 01:09 Assets.db
-rw-r--r--  1 grahamperrin  staff    32K 30 Jun 01:09 Assets.db-shm
-rw-r--r--  1 grahamperrin  staff     0B 30 Jun 01:09 Assets.db-wal

/Users/grahamperrin/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs/9fadf220be21a0ed291ebfea5f836e034473cd93//MMCS:

/Users/grahamperrin/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs/9fadf220be21a0ed291ebfea5f836e034473cd93//Records:
total 272
-rw-r--r--  1 grahamperrin  staff    28K 30 Jun 01:09 Records.db
-rw-r--r--  1 grahamperrin  staff    32K 30 Jun 01:10 Records.db-shm
-rw-r--r--  1 grahamperrin  staff     0B 30 Jun 01:09 Records.db-wal
-rw-r--r--  1 grahamperrin  staff    24K 30 Jun 01:09 pcs.db
-rw-r--r--  1 grahamperrin  staff    32K 30 Jun 01:09 pcs.db-shm
-rw-r--r--  1 grahamperrin  staff    16K 30 Jun 01:09 pcs.db-wal

/Users/grahamperrin/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs/9fadf220be21a0ed291ebfea5f836e034473cd93//StagingAssets:
sh-3.2$ find ~/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/com.apple.CloudDocs -name "*resident*"
sh-3.2$