akfromnyc
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Q: Smart album excluding My Photostream pictures

I created a smart album to identify all pictures not already in albums.  Unfortunately it picks up iCloud Photostream pictures as well, which i'd like to exclude.

 

Any suggestions on how to edit the following smart album to get what i want?

 

Screen Shot 2015-06-15 at 7.51.57 AM.png

 

Thanks!

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Jun 15, 2015 5:11 AM

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Q: Smart album excluding My Photostream pictures

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  • by Glenn Leblanc,

    Glenn Leblanc Glenn Leblanc Jun 15, 2015 6:22 AM in response to akfromnyc
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    Jun 15, 2015 6:22 AM in response to akfromnyc

    Smart albums & PhotoStream are not included in criteria of creating a smart album. What your image shows is you have 9 items that are not included in at least 1 user created ablum.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Jun 15, 2015 6:30 AM in response to akfromnyc
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    Jun 15, 2015 6:30 AM in response to akfromnyc

    You can add a criteria that camera model is not [your IOS device] and make it match all criteria

     

    LN

  • by akfromnyc,

    akfromnyc akfromnyc Nov 7, 2015 1:30 PM in response to Glenn Leblanc
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    Nov 7, 2015 1:30 PM in response to Glenn Leblanc

    Thanks Glenn.  The Smart Album as i have set it up here does indeed show Photostream photos.  In fact All Photos in Photos includes photostream photos, which is where I'm sure the smart album is picking up the photostream photos.

     

    Is there any way to make All Photos exclude photostream?  Ideally i'd like photostream to be a 1000 photo history of photos taken from my ios camera and not interfere with my collection of photos in Photos.

     

    Thanks.

  • by akfromnyc,

    akfromnyc akfromnyc Nov 7, 2015 1:34 PM in response to LarryHN
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    Nov 7, 2015 1:34 PM in response to LarryHN

    Thanks Larry.  What will this do? exclude photostream-only photos, or all photos taken by an ios-device, including those that have been explicitly imported into Photos by me?

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Nov 7, 2015 3:09 PM in response to akfromnyc
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    Nov 7, 2015 3:09 PM in response to akfromnyc

    Any photo added to My Photo Stream by a mobile device will be imported into your library if you have the Photos/iCloud preference pane setup as shown below:

    PhotosPSprefs2.jpg

    Therefore, they are in the library, not in an album and will be found by that smart album.

    OTsig.png

  • by akfromnyc,

    akfromnyc akfromnyc Nov 7, 2015 3:14 PM in response to Old Toad
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    Nov 7, 2015 3:14 PM in response to Old Toad

    That makes logical sense but oh so frustrates what i'm trying to accomplish.

    I guess I have no choice but to disable My Photostream on my iMac.

     

    I wish there was a way to view My Photostream on my Mac without the import.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Nov 7, 2015 3:25 PM in response to akfromnyc
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    Nov 7, 2015 3:25 PM in response to akfromnyc
    Ideally i'd like photostream to be a 1000 photo history of photos taken from my ios camera and not interfere with my collection of photos in Photos.

    Use a Shared Photo Album instead.  You can create a shared photo album and published it publicly or privately. 

    Psharedstream5.jpg

     

    The limit for a shared Photo Album is 5000.  If you only want 1000 then when you reach that limit delete some when you add the new ones. You can still keep your My Photo Stream active as a way to easily import the photos from your mobile devices into your library.