Photostream is not syncing on my Windows 7 PC

After many wasted hours, DAC84's solution worked - thanks! You'd hope that Apple will have add an icloud control panel solution to the underlying problem, given then number of people who needed to whack the mediastream database using the file system!

Just like AL71B, I updated my Windows, downloaded the new iCloud control panel (3.1) and all of a sudden it seems to be working again.

Every new photo I take goes straight into Photo Stream and uploads to my computer no problem. Holding my breath that someone has fixed something somewhere...

I found the reason for this and the solution couldn't be simpler. The issue is compatability. So, search for Icloud using Windows search on bottom left and right click on it. Go to properties>compatability>Windows 7>apply>ok. do the same for iCloud photos. Then sign out of icloud and sign back in. Presto! You'll notice it will be a lot quicker to load too. After a year trying to figure it out I stumbled on it....It's worked ever since.

I found the reason for this and the solution couldn't be simpler. The issue is compatability. So, search for Icloud using Windows search on bottom left and right click on it. Go to properties>compatability>Windows 7>apply>ok. do the same for iCloud photos. Then sign out of icloud and sign back in. Presto! You'll notice it will be a lot quicker to load too. After a year trying to figure it out I stumbled on it....It's worked ever since.

Is there a way to do it without signing out and back in again? Every time I've done that, it messes with the connection with Outlook - where I've got all my contacts and calendar syncing. I just want to "reboot" the PhotoStream without having to reload everything in Outlook.

Not that I know of. But, you should only have to do it once. You could try and skip the sign in/out step and it may well sync next time reboot.

The only solution I have found is to sign out and then sign back in again. Nothing else has worked so far.

I have installed iCloud 3.1 on 2 Windows PCs, one running Win 8.1, and the other Win 7 Pro. In both cases, iCloud installation hangs when the app is first opened after install. Restarting a second time doesn't seem to help the sync process any. Ultimately neither PC reflects Photostream photos.

Its clear 3.1 is just poorly implemented for Windows by Apple. This thread has been going on for some time without a concrete fix from Apple directly, so I am going to transfer my Photostream photos into an Album, for direct cable transfer to a PC. I will then turn off iCloud in favor of one of the many cloud storage apps out there. Not ideal, but I can't code iCloud myself so no other choice.

I am an Apple fan, but it is odd that Apple cannot seem to get web/cloud based apps working... from eWorld to mobile me, to iCloud... it hasn't been pretty.

I had the same problem on my Windows Vista machine, I called AppleCare and they helped me out. Apparntly you need to reinstall the iCloud control panel. Go to control panel, click uninstall a progam, and select iCloud. After iCloud is uninstalled, you need to reinstall it again by downloading it from apples website. If you use Windows Vista, you will need to download the 2.1.3 version. I don't think iCloud is supported on Windows XP anymore. 😟 So you will not be able to use iCloud on your XP machine. If you use Windows 7 or 8, you can download the latest version of iCloud. After the install it should be all good!

I had the same problem on my Windows Vista machine, I called AppleCare and they helped me out. Apparntly you need to reinstall the iCloud control panel. Go to control panel, click uninstall a progam, and select iCloud. After iCloud is uninstalled, you need to reinstall it again by downloading it from apples website. If you use Windows Vista, you will need to download the 2.1.3 version. I don't think iCloud is supported on Windows XP anymore. 😟 So you will not be able to use iCloud on your XP machine. If you use Windows 7 or 8, you can download the latest version of iCloud. After the install it should be all good!

Worked for me too!! Much appreciated

Hi! Same problem here. Everything worked perfect between PC W7, Mac, iPad and iPhone. Suddently, and who knows why, it did not work on PC. Each time I tried something I read on internet, iCloud photos on Pc where different, I guess selected in an aleatory way... fed up of tries, today I did again what "matticonnolly" and "DAC84" suggested. After that, and with all devices with wifi off, I cancelled every photo on stream "folder" (hard job!!!! almost 1000 photos in each of them!), even on icloud folder on the PC (before that I copied all photos from iPad and iPhone to a safe directory in the PC). I switched on wifi again on all devices, I took a photo with iPhone et voilà: I could see it everywhere :-) I do not know until when this works... but if it will happen again... bye bye apple photostream, and I will use dropbox or something else! I am fed up all this "small" bugs on iOS's...

Was facing similar issues (Photostream not syncing automatically on PC).

Logged out of iCloud, logged back in and it starting working. Perhaps some stale / missing process thread.

Start > iCloud > SignOut > Log in

inQZtiv: thanks, I had the same problem with a win 7 laptop, your solution also worked for me. 🙂

Logging out and logging in doesn't work for me. Just installed iCloud on a new computer and none of my pictures were downloaded. About 30 pictures can be found in my phone's photostream.