Change to iCloud Drive in Finder Sidebar

[thomasmann]

Change to iCloud Drive in Finder

I’m using El Capitan 10.11.6 on an early 2009 20” 2.66Ghz iMac, so am unable to upgrade to Sierra.
Until recently when the grey iCloud Drive icon in the Finder window sidebar was clicked the contents of my iCloud Drive appeared in the right hand pane as normal folders and i was able to navigate them in the usual way.
Recently this does not work and all I get is a large cloud graphic and a message:

“iCloud Drive
Store your files in iCloud Drive and access them on iOS 8, OS X Yosemite, and even Windows or the web. Apps can now access files directly from iCloud Drive and edit documents from other apps.
Learn More…”

and a button: “Upgrade to iCloud Drive”

I am still able to access my iCloud Drive from Safari and no amount of checking the preferences for iCloud Drive and iCloud seems to make any difference.
Any ideas?
Thomas Mann

 

[chscag]

Try signing out of iCloud and then signing back in. Make sure you know your Apple ID and its password first. You meet all the requirements for using iCloud drive and as far as I can tell it should work for you. Might be a temporary glitch.

 

[thomasmann]

chscag
Thanks for the advice:
that was a surprisingly longwinded and complex process! I've gone through all the steps, which even included getting a text message on my iPhone and eventually got to a stage where I was told that "iCloud Drive is setting up iCloud Drive". I sat and waited for about a quarter of an hour and 'mirabile dictu' normality has been restored. Many thanks, I'd wondered about doing the off/on of iCloud but was put off by the warnings about stuff being deleted and had bailed out previously. Your message gave me the confidence to go through with it -- and it worked. Many thanks,
thomasmann