ICloud – What do these numbers and symbols mean in the Documents folder in Finder

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My Documents are uploaded automatically to iCloud, I recently put a bunch of photos into a subdirectory under ~/Documents/Old Photos and noticed Finder is syncing that directory to iCloud. However the numbers are a little confusing.

Finder Window

See in the middle of the window there's an up-arrow with 159.28 GB next to it. What exactly is this? I thought it was the amount of data left to upload, however it is going up and down rather than just down. Maybe MacOS is just doing a bad job calculating the remaining data…

Any insight would be helpful

Best Answer

I think I've figured it out. So when I click the pie shown by the arrow below Finder Window

this pops up another window showing the progress of my uploads

Finder Progress

So I guess the figures do represent the data remaining for that directory, maybe MacOS just made up the numbers at the beginning

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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