Photostream is not syncing on my Windows 7 PC

That's a new angle, I don't think I've seen picked up on before.

I wonder if it would work if you reset it with a reinstall, and then never deleted any pictures. I never thought to try that.

Hopefully when iOS 6 comes out around the 12th, there's a new version of this for the PC that addresses all of this.

How do you reset Photostream ?

From what I am experiencing, if I do not delete a photo, I have no issues. I tried it on 3 different occasions and all 3 times it re-occured. I stopped deleting! LOL

I had posted a 7 step procedure on how to reset photostream earlier in the thread. I have O/S Vista 32 bit and I know some have tried the procedure with O/S 7 and were unsuccessful. I came across this thread when I had experienced this the first time a few months back. This issue started with the last iO/S upgrade. If you cannot find it, I will try to repost asap or click on your icloud icon and click icloud help and it will be listed on the left window pane.

From what I see on this thread most have repaired with a reinstall but anything is worth a try. For me it was the photostream reset.

Hi,

Have the same problem here. It just stoped working. Logout and login again helped once, but then it stoped again.

I'm going to uninstall iCloud and install Microsoft SkyDrive. It's available on all platforms and does the same thing, only it works. Not to mention that you get far more space in the cloud once you sign in.

It looks a little odd for me to do that, but my only goal here is to have a working solution.

Hope it helps somebody else too.

Nejc

Hey guys,

I just wanted to post in here after reading most of this post. I was having the same issue with my PC's photostream not being updated from my iPhone. I noticed a post where someone said disabling their adhoc shouldn't matter.

Well I had an adhoc set up at one time from a program on my iPhone that claimed to let me use it as a tether. As soon as I removed this connection from my manage wireless connections list, the photostream updated. I was not using this adhoc, and have never actually used it, it was just a connection on my list.

You guys may want to try that if you have an adhoc and I hope i could help someone out here.

Thank you,

Shane

How does one disable ad hoc?

Resetting Photo Stream worked for me. How to: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4890

With step by step pictures: http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mmbc2c0a9e

Yep, have just found that resetting the photo stream worked for me too. New photos taken on iPhone now download very rapidly to the Windows 7 machine, and a photo I copied into the Windows 'upload' folder instantly uploaded, then appeared in the My Photo Stream folder, as well as my iOS devices.

Im glad it worked for a few people. It was worth the post then. I found that when I delete a photo from my iphone or ipod touch it occurs again so I have to go into the photostream and reset again. That's good enough for me. I read where Apple was to issue an iOS update soon and hopefully it will resolve this annoying issue for all of us!

I found my solution finally for getting photostream to work: upgrading my win7x64 to Windows 8 x64. Maybe this will be good news to someone, but it was rather a drastic change! 🙂

Everything was fine for a few months, suddently, out of nowhere, phtostream sync stopped. Tried, uninstalling, reinstalling, folder permissions... nothing worked. Tried installing iCloud control panel and setup photstream on a secondary PC: instant sync of all files!

Still no go on the main PC.

(same OS, hardware, etc)

I give up...

I have two Windows7 x64 machines and Photo Stream works on one and not the other. I followed the steps in this thread but on the computer that doesn't work the program ApplePhotoStreamsDownloader.exe immediately crashes on launch. I've also tried safe mode. I'm going to keep chewing on it but after safe mode I'm not sure where to go to find the incompatibility or conflict.

There is a new iCloud control panel out now. Has anyone tried it? Does it fix the problems in this thread.