Q: I cannot see this months photo stream under Events in Photos

First thing to mention is that Photos is not just a new version of iPhoto, it is an entirely new program built from scratch with a different underlying model and implementation. We are using the very first official version 1.0 of that program, so "as they previously did" doesn't really apply.

Back in iPhoto, pictures imported through Photo Stream showed up in automatically created Events each named for the month.

When your iPhoto library was migrated into Photos (which does not have an Events concept), the existing Events (automatic or manual) were converted to Albums inside a folder named iPhoto Events; they are not really Events, just Albums.

Photos (which, as I said, doesn't really know about Events) just imports Photo Stream pictures into the main library (as you noted). It does not create special Albums for them.

If you believe it is important for the new Photos application to have some additional features (including some way to identify pictures that came in through Photo Stream in a given month), tell Apple through official feedback channels (http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html in this case).

I was having this problem with missing months in photo stream until I discovered that the events folders were sorted manually,  I went to View>sort event>sort by date, and it fixed the problem. 

You're 4 versions behind with Photos and the system.  I recommend you upgrade to the latest version of El Capitan and Photos which brings with it a number of new features, improvements and bug fixes.  It's a most worthwhile upgrade.

Old Toad wrote:

 

You're 4 versions behind with Photos and the system.  I recommend you upgrade to the latest version of El Capitan and Photos which brings with it a number of new features, improvements and bug fixes.  It's a most worthwhile upgrade.

At the time of Manoloiv's post (Jun 2, 2015 6:26 PM)  the OS X version and Photos were current.  This is a very old thread that has been resurrected .

I wish the hosts would lock old discussions - at least after four system updates!

You're right. I looked at the date on the last post but not on the post I responded to.  That's what I get with only one cup of coffer in me in the morning. 

Enjoy your coffee!   On my side of the ocean is already dinner time!

The post is almost a year old, but still relevant  My system is current, running El Capitan 10.11.4, however I still like iPhoto more than photos.

Here are a four possible fixes that worked for others to jumpstart MyPhotoStream.

Method #1 - posted by user Willis I Am:

Willis I Am

Re: photostream not working on my mac

Sep 9, 2013 2:05 PM (in response to gtbissell)

I do not know if anyone ever runs into this issue anymore, but the Apple Engineers helped me fix this recently.

 

They had me do the following:

 

Turn off Photo Stream in your user account:

Quit iPhoto

Goto System Preferences > iCloud > Uncheck Photo Stream.

Close System Preferences

 

Then deleting the entire ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/ directory.

Open Terminal and type in cd Library

then type open . (open space period)

 

navigate to Application Support and delete the iLifeAssetManagement folder.

quit terminal

 

Then turn photo stream back on in their photo library.

open iPhoto and click on Photo stream in the left column.

enable photo stream.

 

It will take some time to download the cached photos but this resolved my problem of having 0 display and no photos in the "My Photo Stream" area when any of my other devices showed new photo stream photos without any problems.

Method #2 - posted by user hang yong

hang yong

Jun 6, 2015 3:40 PM

Re: Shared albums won't show up on new Photos on Mac

in response to mwbaker210

 

Guys,

 

If you are still facing this issue after rebuilding, try this:

 

1. Close Photos

2. Go to System Preferences, iCloud, Photos and disable “My photo Stream” and “iCloud Photo Sharing”

3. Go to folder /Users/YourUser/Library/Containers/com.apple.cloudphotosd/Data/Library/Applicati on Support/com.apple.cloudphotosd/services

4. Delete com.apple.photo.icloud.myphotostream and com.apple.photo.icloud.sharedstreams folders

5. Enable “My photo Stream” and “iCloud Photo Sharing” again.

6. Start Photos. After a while, the shared photos will start coming.

Method #3 - posted by user jmush1:

jmush1

Jul 29, 2015 8:45 PM

Re: Photostream not updating on Mac Photos

in response to leonfromearth

Helpful

 

I had this same issue.  I fixed this by:

 

Closing Photos.

Opening Activity Monitor.

Killing the process titled "Photos Agent"

 

I opened up Photos again, and my Photo Stream immediately updated.

Method #4 - posted by Mike Bender

Mike Bender

Aug 24, 2015 11:56 PM

Re: Photostream not updating on Mac Photos

in response to leonfromearth

 

I fixed this by doing this:

 

$ pkill -9 photo

$ pkill -9 com.apple.CloudPhotosConfiguration

 

which was a big hammer but seems to work.

Just be aware that iPhoto is on its death bed.  It is no longer supported by Apple or the Apple Print Product stores.  Some of the slideshow themes have problems in El Capitan.  It won't be long before it will go the way of the DoDo bird. So I suggest you start working with a test library in Photos to get to learn it's capabilities (some are a bit hard to fine) before you're forced to migrate to Photos.