Time machine restore iCloud Drive I did a time machine restore and everything seemed fine. But the next day it says my iCloud Drive is uploading. The files are already on iCloud why would it upload them again? My other computer and phone/tablet already have the files
It is uploading 1.94 GB and the number of items is decreasing rapidly. My guess is it is figuring itself out
iCloud needs to check that the restore from backup is the same as the current state on iCloud Drive, so it's not uploading the entire file where it already exists on iCloud Drive but instead just comparing hashes.
This process should be much faster than re-uploading the entire iCloud Drive contents. The progress reported by Finder (in GB) is the size of the files that still need to be checked, not the amount that will be transmitted over the network.
This will also happen in other circumstances where iCloud loses track of the local copy of the drive, such as after a logout of iCloud.