Photostream is not syncing on my Windows 7 PC

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Photostream is not syncing on my Windows 7 PC

So... no matter what I do, I can't get Photostream to sync to my Windows 7 PC.

I have iCloud desktop set up. I have the folders where they should be. Photostream works on my iPhone (I turned it off on my iPhone, it removed the pics, turned it back on, and it loaded them back on)

However, photos placed in upload on my PC don't upload... and no photos from my photostream have loaded on to my comptuer. I've even uninstalled and reinstalled the iCloud desktop program.

Any thoughts? It's working great on my wife's PC (which I set up), so it's not that I don't understand the concept.

I've even shut down my virus scanner to see if that was blocking (it wasn't).

Sooooo... it's driving me crazy. Is there a service I can look for in Windows that might not be running? Anything? Anyone? Buehler? I need help!

Posted on Oct 17, 2011 9:03 AM

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Answer 1

WaterOz Author

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Oct 17, 2011 3:09 PM in response to WaterOz

Hmmm... a lot of people have read... no one's responded. In other words, no clue on what causes the problem, but lots of other people having sync issues. I'm guessing...

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Oct 17, 2011 10:31 PM in response to WaterOz

Yea, I am having this same problem. It is certainly a computer specific issue as photostream is workingfine on my ipad and another windows machine.

icloud control panel creates the "Photo Stream" folder and the subfolder: "Upload" but fails to create the sub folder: "My Photo Stream" and sync it with the photos. Oddly enough the iExlporer bookmarks are updating so i am doubting it to be a connectivity issue.

The problem machine:

windows 7 home 64bit

comodo firewall (windowsfirewall turned off)

avira antivirus

but works fine on:

windows 7 pro 32bit

zonealarm

avira antivirus

interested to know if anyone experiencing problems has similar setup?

regards

jbs

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WaterOz Author

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Oct 18, 2011 9:06 AM in response to Jonny Borris Seed

My set up is Windows 7 Pro 32bit that it's not working on. I was using Kaspersky, but in an attempt to see if that was a problem, I switched it off completely and then even tried a different virus program. Didn't work.k

Mine still doesn't seem to be functioning - uploads or downloads. I'm at a loss. Hopefully they'll release an update to the software that works better. For now, photostream is pretty much useless for me...

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todd58

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Oct 19, 2011 11:04 AM in response to WaterOz

Same problem here using Vista. I've tried everything that you have. Hoping it gets fixed.

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yoyo267

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Oct 19, 2011 1:09 PM in response to WaterOz

I had this problem and it was due to a permissions issue. I needed to right-click on the downloads folder, click the security tab, click edit, select full control 'Allow' and then Apply, and it started working.

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WaterOz Author

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Oct 19, 2011 1:42 PM in response to yoyo267

Interesting... although doesn't seem to be the case. I can't select them all at the moment (where I'm not sharing) but System and my username already has full control to the folder. So it doesn't seem to be the case here (and actually, was something I checked early on - I figured that was likely the problem, but doesn't seem to be at all).

Yay.

I'm sort of an IT guy... so something like this drives me crazy when I can't fix it

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yoyo267

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Oct 19, 2011 2:22 PM in response to WaterOz

Maybe apple is using another username. I specifically changed the group "Authenticated Users" to full control and it started to work.

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WaterOz Author

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Oct 19, 2011 2:41 PM in response to yoyo267

I'll try that... I'll let you know if it works.

Thanks!

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WaterOz Author

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Oct 19, 2011 8:26 PM in response to WaterOz

Doesn't seem to be working. Argh. Any other ideas?

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yoyo267

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Oct 19, 2011 10:44 PM in response to WaterOz

The other thing I did was delete a sub-folder I had created within the downloads folder so only original photostream photos exist.

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WaterOz Author

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Oct 20, 2011 7:33 AM in response to yoyo267

Unfortunately, I don't have any sub-folders in my download folder. Hmmmm...

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Oct 20, 2011 11:23 AM in response to WaterOz

I also could not get photostream to work on my windows pc ( 2 of them in fact) . However after doing as mentioned above...giving "Authenticated Users" full control to the photostream directories it started working...

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WaterOz Author

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Oct 20, 2011 1:03 PM in response to gpershall

Interesting... it didn't work for me. I'm going to go extra crazy now and just give full control to EVERYONE and see if that helps. My computer/photostream hates me

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Oct 20, 2011 9:54 PM in response to WaterOz

Vista SP2 here, tried everything here but only uploads working (from the beginning before making any changes) but downloads from Photo Stream to Dowload folder on Vista PC have not worked once...

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Oct 22, 2011 8:08 PM in response to WaterOz

Ok so I was having this exact same problem and just recently fixed it. When you go to your iCloud desktop check photostream and then click apply at the bottom of the dialog box. It takes a minute to load but you will see the folder appear and then the pictures will begin to show up one at a time. I hope this works fo you as it did for me.

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