photostream not working on my mac

Photos from my iphone sync to the cloud and to my ipad, but not my mac. I have turned photostream on and off, but that doesnt seem to work, I am running Mountain Lion and the latest version of iPhoto.


I have rebooted, etc. Is there any other way to restart photostream besides turning it on or off. I am comfortable doing things in Terminal.


Thanks

iPhoto '11, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Nov 8, 2012 11:22 AM

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Sep 9, 2013 2:05 PM in response to gtbissell

I do not know if anyone ever runs into this issue anymore, but the Apple Engineers helped me fix this recently.


They had me do the following:


Turn off Photo Stream in your user account:

Quit iPhoto

Goto System Preferences > iCloud > Uncheck Photo Stream.

Close System Preferences


Then deleting the entire ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/ directory.

Open Terminal and type in cd Library

then type open . (open space period)


navigate to Application Support and delete the iLifeAssetManagement folder.

quit terminal


Then turn photo stream back on in their photo library.

open iPhoto and click on Photo stream in the left column.

enable photo stream.


It will take some time to download the cached photos but this resolved my problem of having 0 display and no photos in the "My Photo Stream" area when any of my other devices showed new photo stream photos without any problems.

Jan 31, 2014 3:53 PM in response to Rob Guthrie

Can you help with these steps:


Then deleting the entire ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/ directory.

Open Terminal and type in cd Library

then type open . (open space period)


navigate to Application Support and delete the iLifeAssetManagement folder.

quit terminal


This is my first macbook, so I'm not familiar with how to access this area.

Feb 1, 2014 11:10 AM in response to PvltrDre

Give this a try:


NOTE: In Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks the Home/Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and press the Return key - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.


For Mavericks, 10.9, go to your Home folder and use the View ➙ Show View Options menu to bring the this window:

User uploaded file


Then you can open the Library/Applications Support folder via the Finder as youi would to any Folder and drag the iLifeAssetManagement folder to the Trash.


User uploaded file


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