My iCloud photos are only syncing one way.

Thanks for your reply.

Yes I have set the Mac to sync with iCloud (I think - I went to preferences in photos. On the iCloud tab, iCloud photos is ticked, download originals to this Mac is ticked and shared albums is ticked. I have also checked in settings on

the Mac, in internet accounts, photos is ticked. I tried unticking and re-ticking this box in case that helped it it didn’t.)

there are over 9000 photos so they are not all from photo stream - I suppose it is possible the new ones are coming in through photo stream?

Before posting this question I have been scouring the internet to find a solution to this issue and someone said to make sure photostream is on so I actually just turned it on in my phone, it wasn’t on before.

In iCloud.com there are 9246 photos, on the MacBook there are 9532.

I have just looked at the Mac now and it says ‘uploading 9356 items!! I’m really worried the MacBook will put the deleted photos back in iCloud, not sure if I should pause it or let it do it’s thing...it’s been doing nothing all day, not sure if this ‘upload’ is because I turned photostream on or maybe I changed something else...

Thanks. I left it and it eventually did it’s thing - just finished today. Very frustrating.

I had actually tried ticking then unticking that photos box before and it hadn’t worked but this time it does seem that this was what triggered the upload and eventually the sync.

During the process it seemed to go backwards a few times - one night before I went to bed it said there were about 1000 photos left then the next day it was back up to 3000! The computer had to be on, connected to power, connected to wifi 24 hours a day for several days. Using up electricity and wifi data.

Note that I have one of the fastest internet speeds available here so it’s not like I have a slow internet connection causing the delay.

Note also that I had already been through the process of uploading the most recent photos to this photos library. It had already said it had been through the process of calibrating (whole locked and connected to power etc) it had just not done it properly.

I’m recording all the details of what happened in case it will help someone else with a similar issue.

I’m really not impressed with Apple iCloud at all. I need to delete more photos from my phone and I don’t want to have to go through this again!

Thanks very much for your help with this.

Yes, it seemed that turning iCloud off and on again eventually worked to make it sync properly. See my detailed post above.

Thanks very much for your help with this!