Uploading Photos again after moving to new MacBook

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Uploading Photos again after moving to new MacBook

I used Time Machine to move to a new MacBook this weekend. I just opened up Photos, and after about 10 minutes of "restoring", I saw my photos. However, Photos started re-uploading all the photos from my library again. I don't want it to upload them again if they're already in iCloud; there's not enough free space to do so anyways. How can I stop this from happening, and force it to recognize the photos that are already uploaded? Do I need to disassociate the old laptop from iCloud? I don't want to do that, I want to "Sync" them instead.

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Posted on Jan 27, 2020 1:34 PM

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Eric Root

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Jan 27, 2020 7:29 PM in response to richardmtl1

When you moved to a new computer and signed back into iCloud, the sync starts over again. That is normal. The sync is comparing what is on the computer to what is in iCloud. Unless there is an oops, no new photos or duplicates will be uploaded.

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Jan 27, 2020 2:32 PM in response to richardmtl1

Logon to iCloud.com, and click on Photos. Then, look to see if they are being duplicated. Maybe the photos already there are being written over. I am assuming some were uploaded before you stopped the process. It sounds like you stopped it. How did you do so? Just unchecking Photos?

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Jan 28, 2020 10:41 AM in response to Eric Root

Thanks! I let it run and indeed, it didn't actually re-upload everything, it just checked them all. Photos shouldn't say "uploading", then, caused me to panic.. ;)

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Eric Root

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Jan 28, 2020 10:42 AM in response to richardmtl1

You are welcome.

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