Accidental iCloud Sync – How to stop?

Thanks for the input.

What I meant is that these things probably happens thousand of times each day, to a varying degree of how hard it impacts the end user. I happened to be able to delete 200 GB of unused files, so my sync will eventually be finished (in a week or something). But if I hadn't find that space I'd have to reinstall my Mac or something – Because iCloud syncs until it's finished, even if there's no local space.

To not have some kind of stopping the process is a failure in the interface, if you ask me.

Imagine a large library where people from all over the world come every day to borrow books. Near the entrance, there’s a small, barely noticeable button. If you press it - without really knowing what it does - it automatically sends a request to have all the books from a certain section delivered to your home.

The button is often pressed by mistake - sometimes in a rush, sometimes out of curiosity - and suddenly, the person’s living room is filled with books they don’t have space for. For some, it’s just a bit messy; for others, the shelves collapse and chaos ensues. This happens every day, thousands of times. And yet, the button remains, just as accessible as ever.

Just a thought.

/$0.02

Already done that. Before making this thread actually.

I was hoping that someone knew a cool "kill icloud.syncing.process.xyz" command or such. 😉