Hi,
so I've enabled iCloud Photo library and it says sync is complete with 145K Photos. So far so good. But when I login to icloud.com I see only 141K Photos.
Furthermore my local Photo Library is 205GB, while icloud uses only 150GB. Any suggestions, how I can get them back to sync completely?
Best, Jens
Macbook (2016 or later)
See these articles https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT204264
https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/photos/from-icloud-photos-phtf5e48489c/4.0/mac/10.14
Turn on iCloud Photos
If you’re not already signed in to iCloud, choose Apple menu 
> System Preferences, then click iCloud and sign in with your Apple ID and password.
on your Mac, choose Photos > Preferences, then click iCloud.You must select .
Read this also https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/photos/change-photos-preferences-pht5156cc968/4.0/mac/10.14
Clearly I'm hoping somebody who knows checks in, here, and I'm going to follow up with my take on that question but it is noteworthy that nobody has yet clicked on "I have this question too." But first I'd be curious to know:
File types that you can use with iCloud Photos
Your photos and videos are stored in iCloud exactly as you took them. All of your images are held in their original formats at full resolution — HEIF, JPEG, RAW, PNG, GIF, TIFF, HEVC, and MP4 — as well as special formats you capture with your iPhone, like slo-mo, time-lapse, 4K videos, and Live Photos.
OK. I’m guessing that the number of Photos (= photos & videos) of not unable to upload to iCloud Smart Album is now equal to the # of photos and videos in iCloud.com Photos. In fact, I’m guessing all of these #’s are equal:
If so, it seems possible you may have the same problem albeit different manifestation as discussed here.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7785024?answerId=31102686022#31102686022
Ok, so I am not sure what is happening; however, I had determined that there are a lot of duplicates and some of them there is no information in the exif data anymore - just shows no camera information available when the exact same photo further up in the all photos list has all the data. I am not sure how this has occurred but it seems to have.
I have gone through and exported 1000 block photos at a time and when the numbers were not matching, made the blocks smaller until I found the exact row of 10. One example was, I selected 10, said export and it exported 8 of them. I then went through and exported the exact same row again, image by image and it did all 10. So there seems to be some sort of bug in the Photos.app; however, I can't determine what it is!
The author identified some kind of transient false duplicates in macOS Photos library via process of elimination. You might try to do the same i.e. count or select all for one given time frame after another but simultaneously in both macOS Photos as well as iCloud.com Photos until you find a discrepancy and narrow it down until you find the actual discrepants. If/when you find some discrepants, see if they aren’t false/erroneous duplicates and/or look for any other common denominators e.g. file type et c. Be careful selecting massive quantities of Photos all at once. One false click from there and who knows what could blow up.
Okay, here we go :)
And I stumbled upon this: File able to upload is smaller, compared to the photo number.
So this is what I've tried:
Nothing helped, there is still the # difference. There are no duplicates, removed them before upload. Furthermore I did not save iMessage photos.
Any ideas?
My compliments to you for the update. It looks as though the number had gone up a little and was still tallying i.e. Saving at which time that image was captured. If so, has it by now completed? I've got a good one for you unless you already knew. The Smart Album Photo filter actually includes videos! In any case, what's the latest round of numbers?
Then I'll submit my thoughts for your approval.
Still continuing to yield the floor as well, hoping anybody checks in to help resolve this discrepancy.
The macOS Photos Library is a database. Tons of files and folders over and above the photos within. However much overhead there is in iCloud, you neither see it nor get docked for it. Whereabouts on the Mac are you seeing the 145K figure and whereabouts in iCloud the 141K?
I believe so but I have no proof. I would peruse the library and look for any inexplicable duplicates or triplicates et c. that might show up in Photos on the Mac but not iCloud.com or vice versa, particularly as relates to photos you've received via iMessage and saved to Photos from there. Then I guess I would see if there's a bunch of stuff I deleted that's still hanging around in one but not the other place.
Thanks and I salute you for exhibiting this Smart Album calculus for I was not fully aware of it! 💪🏻
I would go ahead and actually create both of those albums and give them a day or two to fully tally up and then see if the numbers don't reconcile. Also curious if you could create another couple of Smart Albums, one to tally up the RAW files and another for HDR and state the results.
Earlier you wrote " 205GB, while icloud uses only 150GB. "
That is perfectly normal and nothing to worry about. Your Mac is storing additional working copies, so your Photos Library on the Mac will use roughly 25% more storage than is used in iCloud.
But the difference in the numbers of photos is disconcerting.
Which system version is running on your Mac? And on your iPhone?
Are any photos in the Bursts album?
Just curious if the library status on the Mac shows any "Items on This Mac Only."
Check the status of your library in Photos for macOS
Thanks!
:( Any other thoughts? Could the number of photos shown in the Mac Photos app be wrong?
The number went up because I am taking photos, as simple as that. Unfortunately no others went to iCloud. Thanks for standing by here. So here we go.
Still hanging on :)
No changes here over time.
The number, when I just go to Photos and scroll to the bottom. They should be the same, right?
Inconsistency between mac photos and icloud.com
