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tkwilliamson1025
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Q: How do I get my icloud backups to my Mac?

I had to restore my mac. In doing so I didn't back up my photos on anything other than icloud. When I finsihed the restore, I only ended up with some of the pictures back. Silly me, I figured it was a glich, so I restored again, thinking this time it would work out. That time I did not get any of my photos to come up. I have 2 saved backups on iCloud from phone back ups. One is 3 GB and the other is 2 GB. I can not find a way to open these back ups or get them back onto my computer. I heard that aperture would also download your photo stream. I have that and the recent ones popped up, but none of the ones that I am looking for. I have also purchased a external hard drive. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get these pictures back?

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), iCloud photo stream issues

Posted on Jul 7, 2013 12:34 AM

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Q: How do I get my icloud backups to my Mac?

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jul 7, 2013 12:55 AM in response to tkwilliamson1025
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    Jul 7, 2013 12:55 AM in response to tkwilliamson1025

    iCloud will keep the last three backups

    When you connect your iPhone to your computer, and select your phone in the iTunes sidebar, you should see  a list of available backups. in the "General"  pane when you click the "Restore" button, like this:

    Screen Shot 2013-07-07 at 09.48.38MESZ.PNG

     

    In the list of backups shown, is there a backup from the time, when the photos were still on your phone?

    Then select an older backup to restore.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Jul 7, 2013 5:59 AM in response to tkwilliamson1025
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    Jul 7, 2013 5:59 AM in response to tkwilliamson1025

    I had to restore my mac. In doing so I didn't back up my photos on anything other than icloud.

    Exactly what did you do? iCLoud has no photo backup available

     

    You phone is backedup to iCloud but nothing on your Mac

     

    As to the external drive - be sure it is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) and start runing Time Machine with its default settings ASAP so this doe not happen again

     

     

    LN