Aperture and iPhoto can't connect to Photostream

Aargh - too bad. I was optimistic.

I'll think some more - maybe tomorrow will bring a fresh insight.

I wonder if this might help. It's a recent article entitled "Using a unified photo library with iPhoto and Aperture". http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5260

I don't have first hand experience with Aperture, but maybe if you haven't been through a library unification it will help.

Well, I found this by doing a Google search of "unable to connect to photostream". I know in general if applications get stuck, it's worth trying deleting the preferences files. Maybe that's what this article is suggesting - I didn't check my own finder to see what files he's specifically addressing. But the concept seems reasonable to me. See what you think:

http://www.icloudhowtoblog.com/aperture-unable-to-connect-to-photo-stream/index. html

Update: I just looked at my own setup and his action (delete those files) still seems reasonable. Note the article misspells "preferences".

Following up -- wondering if you tried deleting the preferences files, and if that worked. Have you tried a different solution?

Wow, that sounds painful and must have taken hours.

I love Time Machine, but I suspect it restored your old preferences files. You should be able to do "get info" on each file to confirm. I wonder if after all your trouble, deleting the preferences files might still help.

Thank you for asking this question and for the discussion. The same thing is happening to me with Aperture and Photostream, but I am traveling and not able to sit for hours trying to sort it out. I have spent two days in Phoenix and two days in Boise at the Apple genius bars, but they could not find the problem.

I'm so sorry I did not follow my own rule (Do NOT upgrade to a new systerm but wait until a new computer can be bought) and I upgraded my MacBook to Lion OS because of the change to iCloud. I bought Aperture at the same time. So many little things just don't work. Please, if any of you discover a fix to this problem, share it in this or another discussion. Thanks.

Maybe it's a consolation: I got the new OS with my new MBA and I have the exact same issue. I don't use aperture, but have the same irritating message coming up when I try to set up photostream.

I have not yet found anyone who has solved this issue.

Lien

I had this same problem and fixed it myself while trying to follow these instructions!

In system preferences > users and groups, it showed I had two Apple IDs against my user account. Deleted one, it fixed it.

Obviously, Photo Stream will only work if it has just one Apple ID to check.

Nicely done, els76uk! Good of you to share that here.

Thanks els76uk, that's one of the things I tried to. Unfortunately it didn't do the trick for me. I had a .mac address and a .me address, so I got rid of the latter one. Didn't work. Oh well, I'll call Support again tomorrow.

Thank you for posting on this thread. I have just started having the same problem with Iphoto and Photostream. Everything was working perfectly but has suddenly stopped. By restarting Icloud on my Iphone4 and Ipad2 "Iphoto cannot connect to photostream".

Sometimes it goes as far as showing the post it pads which are the precursor to Photostream opening up but then it stops. This is really frustrating - I have scoured the internet for a solution but canot find one! I was wondering if you had managed to find a solution yet?

I am running mountain lion 10.8.1 and Iphoto 9.3.2.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

PS I am new to the world of Mac and so apologise if I am being dumb!