MobileMe Gallery & Facebook stuck syncing...

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MobileMe Gallery & Facebook stuck syncing...

I have one gallery published to MobileMe and I just used iPhoto 09 to publish one album to my Facebook account. This morning they synced just fine.

This evening I moved around some photos and deleted some and the Facebook album has been "stuck" with the "sync pie" filled in about 40% (around 5 o'clock) and in the top right-hand corner I have a progress bar that says "uploading thumbnails".

My MobileMe gallery on the other hand is just forever "syncing" with the "sync pie" continually spinning but nothing else happening.

It's been like this for 30+ minutes now. I am skeptical to do anything else because I don't want to mess up my libraries in any way. I did go to my main iPhoto library (which contains a photo that is published in both online galleries I was talking about earlier) and I was unable to delete the photo (perhaps iPhoto is preventing me from doing that while it's trying to sync those two galleries?).

Any ideas/tip/tricks?

Thank you,
Keith

MacBook Pro 15.4" 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.1), 200 GB HDD 7200 RPM, 2 GB RAM

Posted on Sep 15, 2009 5:14 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 16, 2009 12:02 AM in response to Keithos

How long it takes will depend on your internet upload speed.
Wait and see what happens, monitor your internet connection to see if data is still being transferred.

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Answer 2

Keithos Author

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Sep 16, 2009 5:06 AM in response to Ian Parkinson

After 5 hours I decided I had waited long enough. 🙂

I hovered over the the "sync pies" until they turned to "x's" and then I clicked on the "x" to cancel the sync. I then tried to quit iPhoto and it warned me that iPhoto was trying to sync and presented me with the option of "cancel quit" or "stop sync and quit." I chose "stop sync and quit" but that did nothing... iPhoto just stayed open. I looked under "Force Quit" and iPhoto was NOT listed as not responding.

I tried to quit iPhoto again with the same two options presented to me. I finally did a force quit.

What gives?

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Answer 3

jschaffe

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Sep 27, 2009 5:02 PM in response to Keithos

It's happening to me as well. In Activity Monitor there is virtually no network traffic, so I think something else is going on here. iPhoto is sucking 67% of my CPU, however.

Anyone know what's going on?

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Answer 4

playerx

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Nov 2, 2009 4:23 AM in response to jschaffe

me too.

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Answer 5

Nov 24, 2009 7:47 PM in response to Keithos

Occurring for me as well.

The Facebook gallery posted fine, but got stuck while I was editing it. "Uploading thumbnails" constantly. The same bug recurs after a Force quit. New changes don't propagate to Facebook, and there's no network activity.

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Answer 6

Dec 19, 2009 2:16 PM in response to Keithos

Same here. Would love an answer.

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Answer 7

Keithos Author

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Jan 28, 2010 6:39 AM in response to Bobby Wan

Anyone still having this sort of problem? I still am and would love to know how to fix this... Now every time I open iPhoto one of my FB albums tries to sync and I have to go through the same song and dance to quit iPhoto. VERY ANNOYING!

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Answer 8

Feb 21, 2010 5:12 PM in response to Keithos

I am also experiencing the same problem. I have tried resetting the Facebook authorisation in iPhoto, which has not helped. It isn't a major issue, but I don't really want to delete and recreate the Facebook album. Hmmmm.

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