iCloud Drive Bird Service always running

Solution 1:

I got rid of the problem by removing the folder that contained the file over the terminal. Seems like there was something mixed up.

This is how I did it:

  1. Identify the source of the problem using this command:

    brctl log -w --shorten

  2. I looked into it and saw there was one error always repeating and it always tried to upload it.

  3. Because I couldn't find the file via the terminal (because it was never on my disk) I deleted the folder that should have contained the file. It did that using the command

    sudo rm -rf name_of_the_folder

I hope that helps someone.