My Photo Stream is empty with iCloud Control Panel 3.0

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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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Feb 21, 2017 12:18 PM in response to svnklmn

Woo-hooo!! I followed your general instructions for my Windows 10 64-bit pc and it worked!! Basically,

I Ended every open Apple, iCloud, photostream, mobilesync, etc... Process in Task Manager.

Then I found and deleted the %AppData%\Apple Computer\MediaStream folder.

I restarted iCloud and rechecked the boxes I wanted for Photos and VOILA!!

Thank you thank you thank you! I have been trying to fix my Photostream download for a couple years (on and off). I predict I will have to do it again when Windows updates something, but at least now I know how. 🙂

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Sep 24, 2013 5:36 PM in response to Alex Ieong

Having the same issue.

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hkalec

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Sep 24, 2013 8:03 PM in response to Alex Ieong

i use win 7, also has this problem.

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Sep 25, 2013 1:13 AM in response to Alex Ieong

I have this issue also

Tried installing and reinstalling...

The SHARED STREAMS are fine.. they populatre on my computer, but veryt slowly.

I putsomething in the uploadfolder and it went to my photo stream

However in the My POhotostream folder and windowe there is nothing.. I tried taking a new picture and it wont appear either.

Anyone else have this?

Using WIndows 7

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hkalec

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Sep 25, 2013 2:28 AM in response to MikeAbramsNY

exactly the same

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LukeLT

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Sep 27, 2013 4:39 PM in response to Alex Ieong

Same issue on Windows 8.1 while it works well on my macbook

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Sep 27, 2013 5:10 PM in response to Alex Ieong

Same issue on Windows 7 64-bit. Problem started with upgrade from CP 2.x to 3.0. Shared streams are fine but main "My Photo Stream" folder never populates with new pictures on iOS device(s).

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Sep 28, 2013 9:36 AM in response to Matthew Parrish

Similar issue reported Sep 12 2013 here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5303589

It does appear related to upgrading from earlier Control Panel versions.

Still haven't figured out a fix.

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Alex Ieong Author

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Sep 28, 2013 4:03 PM in response to Alex Ieong

I tried to figure out how to resolve this problem again but strangely My Photo Stream is back when I signed in again.

It's strange this time, I remember that we're required to choose the iCloud Photo folder when we sign out and in again, but it doesn't ask me and configured already.

Stay tuned

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Alex Ieong Author

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Sep 28, 2013 4:48 PM in response to Alex Ieong

It seems enable "Photos" with default directory and it will works? I tried serveral times and it seems true. Anybody try? Sign out completely and sign in, enable Photos and DO NOT change the iCloud photo location directory and just use the default one.

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LukeLT

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Sep 28, 2013 5:21 PM in response to Alex Ieong

The derectory change shall not cause this issue. I upgrade to win8.1 and the CP 3.0 had worked well for more than 1 week. It stopped working 3 days ago and I cannot recover it even I reinstall the CP. It will notify me that there is 1 item with unsupported format that cannot be synced.

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