unnecessary? icloud upload after system restore

[nippynippster]

Hi all,

I just bought myself a new imac, and I've restored most of my settings and files from my old mac using time machine. The restore went fine, and everything seems to be there.

The problem is icloud is trying to re-sync all my restored files (I think) and wants to upload 22GB worth of items which are already there. It's killing my bandwidth and just seems, well, unnecessary.

It seems to be trying to upload the contents from my documents folder and desktop. I haven't restored my photos library yet but now doubt it will want to upload a further 25gb worth of photos when I do.

Is there any way to tell icloud that the files are already there and stop the sync? Or is this just an unavoidable consequence of a new system restore.

Kind regards.

 

[Mikael H]

Without knowing enough about what's happening under the hood, so to speak, I'd say that the iCloud sync service at least must compare all contents of your new computer with what's on iCloud. This is most likely done by comparing the mathematical checksums of each file on your local drive with the corresponding one of the equivalent file in iCloud.
In other words I don't think you'll end up transferring all data, but the process will still take a good while to ensure everything is OK.

 

[nippynippster]

Thanks for the reply Mikael. Yeah I am quietly hoping this to be the case, I guess my growing lack of faith in the icloud system is getting the better of me! As you point out it is hard to decipher exactly what is going on under the hood.
Oh well I'll just have to wait it out.
Cheers