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My Photo Stream is empty with iCloud Control Panel 3.0

I've got iPhone, iPad and PC (Windows 8) in sync with iCloud Control Panel 2 properly before.

Days ago I upgraded to iCloud Control Panel 3.0, Other shared photo streams and iCloud bookmarks are sync perfectly but "My Photo Stream" is not sync on PC anymore. I've cleaned up iCloud Photos sync folder completely and signed in to the iCloud Control Panel again, but "My Photo Stream" is just not sync.

Any idea?

iCloud Control Panel 3.0-OTHER, Windows 8

Posted on Sep 23, 2013 6:15 AM

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Oct 23, 2013 1:28 PM in response to icngacsn

Update....icngacsn---you need to talk to a Level 2 Person.

pepms: went back to 2.1.2, got more pics...but not all; went back to 3.0, got 70 (out of over 200), then ZERO

For everyone, update on my 3 week case.....response from Engineers: try a different network...meaning take your laptop that has Vista or higher to somewhere where you can get wireless....(or take your PC 😀) to a different network server and see if iCloud works there....or try iCloud on someone else's computer)....if iCloud works, then it is YOUR computer (and not 3.0). Or, reinstall your PC operating system.....since most people are not having problems with Vista, Windows 7 or 8 and iCloud 3.0...... My case is still open....I'm taking a Photostream "Vacation".....

Oct 23, 2013 2:04 PM in response to TCB64

I have installed iCloud Control Panel on fresh Windows 8.1 installed 2 days ago so reinstalling operating system is not helping... Funny is that before formatting my computer iCCP was working for me on win 8 and after update to 8.1 it was working too. I have installed win 8.1 from MSDN iso file so didn't made an update. Maybe for me, in turn, there are compatibility problems with win 8.1. As regards checking is it working in different network I'll check it tomorrow at school.


What I want to add more unfortunatly it's not my first problem with iCCP. After win 8 premiere I was also having a lot of problem with PhotoStream. Apple software starts to annoy me very much lately and I don't thing that my next phone will be iPhone because iOS7 also is a crap... At least I won't have any problem with backing up my photos on windows...

Oct 24, 2013 2:08 PM in response to Alex Ieong

@fonatig & @konfusionstar because Apple support were sooooooo unhelpful (do not even acknowledge there is a problem) I downgraded from 3.0 to 2.1.2. I found the link for iCloud 2.1.2 using Google. Here is the link:


http://download.canadiancontent.net/iCloud_Control_Panel.html


HOWEVER it did not work for me. I am using Win8.1. I unsintalled 3.0, restarted, installed 2.1.2, restarted, configured 2.1.2, and restarted again. "My Photo Stream" is no longer empty, but it does not update with the new photos I've talken since this fiascio with 3.0 started.


I'm now using ShareFile to synchronize the photos on my Mac(s) and my Windows PC since waiting for Apple to even acknowledge a problem on Windows is likely to be months.

Oct 25, 2013 4:49 AM in response to Alex Ieong

I had a problem with my new Windows 8.1 Dell. My other devices, including computers with the Icloud Control 3 were working except for this one computer.


I read quite a few of these responses, then decided to uninstall and reinstall the control panel. It wouldn't let me at first because it said I did not update the profile in Outlook. I had downloaded Office 365 trial but I knew I woiuld not use it. Anyway, I uninstalled Office 365, and then uninstalled and reinstalled the control panel.


It seems to work fine. I think my issue was caused by photo stream wanting to update my profile on Outlook even though I did not use Outlook.

Oct 27, 2013 8:17 PM in response to fonatig

I uninstalled icloud 3.0 and went back to 2.1.2 and this did not work. 😟 33 out of 720 photos showed up and they were random old photos. I also turned photostream off on both my iphone5s and ipad. I turned both back on and they synced fine with each other, but still just getting random photos on my PC photostream folder. I have tried every suggestion in this forum and none have worked for me, grrr. This is getting frustrating.

My Photo Stream is empty with iCloud Control Panel 3.0

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