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Anyone else having manual sync issues with photos->ios13 not working with selected albums only?

Since around beta 3 of Catalina, I've been having sync issues form photos, using selected albums in the local photo library (not using iCloud photos), first trying to sync to an iPhone X running io13 betas, not to an 11 pro max on 13.2 beta. The dev forums suggested I post here (though the initial post was before release), as it was more "user focused", so here goes:


When I connect my phone, go into the Finder, and select the photos tab, I manually select a bunch of albums to sync to the phone and try to kick the sync off.

 

The phone apparently goes through the sync (though annoyingly you now can't see what the copy progress is - another thing that would be useful in a Finder power user mode) and completes, but the photos don't appear on the phone at all. On "completion", the selected albums are shown unchecked in the photos tab in the Finder as if they'd even not been selected in the first place; the view has updated..

 

I had a similar problem in earlier beta mac os iterationa but found that doing an cms+opt+start on photos and repairing the photo library did the trick. Not this time. I also tried clearing out any residual settings just in case: I tried doing  defaults delete com.apple.photos and defaults delete com.apple.iphoto


Still no luck

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Oct 10, 2019 3:32 PM

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Posted on Oct 17, 2019 6:46 PM

Same here, called Apple today, 11-17, and they were stumped.


Apple’s suggestion:

reinstall Catalina, or

downgrade the macOS to previous version via time machine.


i plan on doing neither!


apple, any other suggestions how to fix this?

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Oct 20, 2019 11:49 AM in response to illuminatusds

I have exactly the same issue. I cannot sync local albums from Photos on my iMac Pro running Catalina with my iPhone X running the latest iOS anymore. Or with my iPad Pro 12.9, same thing.


I can mark albums, have the iPhone or iPad sync, the pie chart does something and then the arrow-wheel turns, and then ... nothing shows up on my devices and with the next sync, the marked albums are unmarked again.


Very frustrating, and very disappointed that Apple broke such a basic functionality. iTunes worked just fine for me for the last decade...

Anyone else having manual sync issues with photos->ios13 not working with selected albums only?

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