Uploading photos from photos app on Mac to iCloud

Hi,

I have solved my problem. I have used ideas from this website - https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-fix-icloud-photos-not-syncing-mac/, to be more specific 2 points - flush DNS cache and deleting the sync index.

After that all my photos were downloaded from the iCloud.

I hope that will help others with similar issue ;)

How much time are you leaving the mac on connected to power and sleep disabled. My similar sized library took 48 hours to sync with iCloud, but that was full time with the mac left on all the time.

To be honest, until yesterday I wasn't aware I need to keep it connected to power and with sleep disabled. I had it on battery for all of the time. But yesterday or day before, I don't remember sorry, I had disabled the sleep and keep it connected to power all the time, keep my Mac open.

Alternatively - do you have an "unable to upload" folder - or if you create a smart album with the contition "photo - is unable to upload to icloud) does it show anything?

No, if I created it nothing is there.

Also how are you connecting to the internet? Do you have any security software EG vpn/firewall/anti virus etc running? And what speed is your internet?

I'm using WiFi and no VPNs, firewall, antivirus etc...

➜  ~ networkQuality
==== SUMMARY ====                                                                                         
Upload capacity: 29.148 Mbps
Download capacity: 171.281 Mbps
Upload flows: 20
Download flows: 12
Responsiveness: Medium (226 RPM)

Still updating, nothing changed.

As previously mentioned:

• no, main SSD.
• no, nothing is shown there
• WiFi
• no

Also try starting up in safe mode, then restarting again normally.

I will try

Thank you for your reply,

I have everything set as you mentioned. Also in Photos preferences I have the "Copy items to the Photos Library" checked. And, I have more than enough space, 140GB on Mac, 95GB on phone and ~50GB on iCloud...

Maybe, I did something wrong from the beginning and should start from the scratch? I'm new to the Apple products, so it's possible. What I did was, to copy all my pictures in folders to the mac's SSD. Then I have imported all of my pictures into the Photos app library, so I had my albums created already and I have deleted the "old" folders with photos from the SSD (of course I have a copy ;)). Then, I bought 50GB space on iCloud and set sync on my Mac and iPhone. Both are new. On phone I didn't have any photos yet. And now I can see all of the albums on iCloud and phone but all of them are still empty, only recent photos made by my phone are on iCloud and phone as well.

Is it possible to upload it for such a long time and see no photos uploaded during the progress?

Hi Tony,

I thought about something, because still the updating didn't finish yet :/

Does it look ok for you?

Data receive/sent per sec at the bottom changes dynamically but still 0 when I look at the processes activity for photos or photolibraryd or small amount when you look at Data which was sent, only ~500MB during that time? Something is definitely wrong. I feel like nothing is really happening.

Are you aware of network settings which can I check? I didn't find anything saying about some restrictions or limits when I use WiFi.

Maybe I should delete everything, move it to iPhone and sync it again, just to download everything into my mac?

One more interesting thing, I have deleted everything from the library on my mac and photos are gone and photos app still says in library... Updating... Unbelievable, right? On my phone and in iCloud I still can see the empty folders. So it is definitely look like my mac for some reason is not syncing at all. I don't even have photos from iCloud downloaded, which were uploaded from my iPhone. But phone->iCloud works fine.

I will get in touch with support.

Thanks,

Ok, thanks, I will.