Q: Syncing issues with iCloud and Photos
I recently discovered that I was missing some older pictures on Apple Photos and iCloud. It's about a years worth of photos from 2014. I think they went missing right around the time Apple dropped iPhoto and switched to the Photos program. I was able to locate the pictures in my old iPhoto Library and was able to import them to Apple Photos - so I have them on my computer - but they are not automatically syncing to iCloud.
I like to have all my photos backed up on iCloud - I've searched all the FAQs and user forums but can't find a description of this particular problem.
Any thoughts on how I can get iCloud to import these newly added photos?
Mac mini (Late 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Posted on Aug 3, 2016 7:41 PM
LN,
Thank you for the insight - I updated to the latest version of El Capitan - still didn't help. The photos were available in "Photos" but there was about a year's worth missing on iCloud including our Hawaii vacation...finally figured out I could copy the files from "Photos" to my desktop then export to iCloud as new photos. Worked perfectly including all the metadata.
And yes I understand iCloud is not a backup service - I also use Time Machine, but I like the piece of mind that I have copies stored somewhere offsite.
Thank you,
OTK
Posted on Aug 10, 2016 9:35 PM