iCloud photo stream problem

Thank you both for your replies.

Hsuchen - I am glad to know its not just me having this problem.

Old Toad - this morning I figured out that signing out of iCloud solved the problem completely - iPhoto now works properly. But if I sign back in the problem is back and I still can't get photo strem to work right. Just tried rebooting as you suggested but that did not help. I really love photo stream since I pretty much take all of my photos on my iPhone these days. Any other ideas?

Old Toad,

Thanks - I have tried both #1 & #2 that you suggested. I am sorry to report that neither of them solved the problem. What does that mean?

One thing to note, in both cases, I log into iCloud through the system preferences and do not check any of the boxes. Then I open iPhoto and in the preference in iPhoto, I try and turn on PS. In both cases 1 then 2, first a notice of "enabling" displayed then stopped, then the box unchecked itself. When I enxited iPhoto, I double checked the iCloud in system pref and magically the PS box was checked. iPhoto must have turned that on but then did not recognize it...?

I really appreciate your replies and assistance. Do you have any other ideas for me?

Old Toad,

OK - I think I just found something that should help us figure out this problem. I have two users set up on my mac. When I first got it, I logged in and set up a user before I was ready to port everything over so later I had to set up a second user account which is what I use for my iPhoto and everything else.

So on a whim, I tried opening iPhoto in the first user account (not my main one) and was able to log into iCloud and set up PS just fine with iPhoto. So it seems the problem is limited to only one of the users that I have set up on my computer.

What does that mean? Does it give you any clues on how to fix this?

Well Old Toad, I am stumped.

I double checked and logged out of iCloud in both user accounts and made sure that PS was not enabled on either library. Then I restarted the computer. I went back to my main user account (second account set up = non administrator account) and to my main iPhoto library, logged into iCloud, tried turing on PS = did not work.

If I do the exact same thing as above for a restore of a backup of my library = does not work.

If I do the exact same thing above but log in with my first account (not my main one but it is the admin account on the computer) and access the test library I created = PS works just fine with no problem.

It seems the problem with PS is limited to my primanry account (non-admin). Do you think the admin privaledges difference between the two accounts could be the problem...?

As always, I am thankful for your time and advice.

iMatty35 - sorry to hear it. You aren't by chance using multiple user accounts on your mac like I am are you?