Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

M3Stang

macrumors regular
Original poster
Oct 26, 2015
161
48
Anyone else ever have to wait so long? I check my request and it’s been in progress since early Jan. I requested my photos the same day and got them 2 days later (800gb worth). I have about the same amount in iCloud Drive (800gb) so just not sure what’s taking nearly a month/if anyone else had run into this?
 

M3Stang

macrumors regular
Original poster
Oct 26, 2015
161
48
Anyone else ever have to wait so long? I check my request and it’s been in progress since early Jan. I requested my photos the same day and got them 2 days later (800gb worth). I have about the same amount in iCloud Drive (800gb) so just not sure what’s taking nearly a month/if anyone else had run into this?
Yesterday and today, I ended up painstakingly downloading every folder I have in iCloud and each folder inside of each folder (about 10 years worth of folders (and you can't copy folder within folder typically with iCloud so I had to use cp -R through terminal to actually get things copied, not sure why the GUI wouldn't work....)) and copied them over to 2 different external drives for some redundancy. What a time suck but thankful for gigabit internet. I went ahead and re-enabled advanced data protection, so at this point, I assume I will never get my copies (as I initially made a request with ADP on and shortly after got 2KB files in return), but I got everything I needed manually. Can't believe it's been nearly a month and it's "in progress".
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.