Photostream is not syncing on my Windows 7 PC

Jon/All,

Confirming this fixed my problem as well. REINSTALL!

I had tried disabling firewall, repairing the install through Control Panel, disabling/enabling iCloud and none of that worked

One symptom I haven't seen highlighted - Windows Event Viewer was showing the ApplePhotoStreams.exe was faulting (crashing) before I reinstalled. After reinstalling its fine.

-Craig

Hi. Haven't read through all your messages but just wondering if Apple ever helped you figure out what the problem with the photostream and the syncing was. The last message I saw from you said that they called to help you sort it out. Did you?

I was able to sign out and sign back into the iCloud app and it is now working.

I have to take back the solution of reinstalling. It was just temporary, after about 3 weeks my photos stopped downloading again.

New reinstall and download is working, but for how long? I did not install anything else than Windows updates since then...

Thanks. Very helpful advice and worked for me!

mlit!

This solved my problem! Fixed like a charm. Thanks!!

My PhotoStream has worked on and off for the last 3 months. I've done nothing but keep trying.

The photos sometimes come down immediately, sometimes later 15-45 minutes, and sometimes not at all.

Also using win7 64bit. What a crazy app. Also cannot get iMessage to activate no matter what. However, i can send messages to other iPhone 5 users.

Hi, I have tried all the above and nothing works. The only solution I can think of is when my contract is up I will get an HTC phone instead of iPhone. I think my iPod is superb but I get mad with Apple because of all the limitations they apply to their products. I am a keen photograper and I want to get photos from my camera onto my iPhone - via my PC, (so I can carry them around with me). I thought iCloud would be the ideal solution but no. Similar problem on the iPod - it's almost impossible to put new photos on there without losing the old ones. Come on Apple, don't be so restrictive. The camera on iPhone 3GS is pretty poor (no flash either) so using the iPhone as a camera is not really an option for me.

Even my old Nokias had the ability to receive photos from my PC that I had taken with a camera. This is a very backward step in technology from Apple.

Sorry if I have gone slightly off topic here but I had to say my bit in the hope Apple will respond to all the negative aspects on what could be superb kit (if they bother to take any notice of what WE think).

Rant over.

J

If you are a photographer (pro or leisure), why not just get a Eye-Fi card for your camera? This way you can get your photos wirelessly from your camera straight into you iPhone - no need to stop by your computer first.

It would be nice to use Photostream for this, but I do not think you should rely on it that way.

You could also make an a folder/album on your computer and include this when you sync your phone.

Oystein

Thank you Oystein, that's most helpful as I had not come across the Eye-Fi card before.

Jules

I have W7 Pro running on my PC. I found that using "repair" worked for me. I have not needed to uninstall completely. What ***** is that it would download all of the photos in the photostream again, which would take a while.

By the way, this happened to me twice already. Both times my PhotoStream reached the 1000 count. Can anybody confirm that this is when it happened to you?

Bob

Log out. Log in. worked for me 🙂 Maybe because I changed the password a time ago.

Yep that did it for me. Crappy that you have to do a work-around -- should work automatically, right???

It sure would be nice if Apple figured out how to make iCloud work better with windows in general. I would switch to something other than Outlook if it worked seemlessly with iCloud.

I fixed the problem, just run the icloud install file and select repair option, after that worked jus fine!!!!

Windows 7 64-bit...same problem, although in my case downloads work from iCloud, but uploads from PC to iCloud does not work. I tried every thing: reinstall, repair, logout/login, give Full privileges on the photostream folders, give elevated privileges to the executables etc.

I almost have given up on it - unless hopefully someone at Apple cares to look at this thread and solve the issue! Photosync, PhotoTransfer and every other iOS file transfer software work great on the PC, so this can't be that difficult for Apple!

"it just works" #fail