Q: My Photo Stream is empty with iCloud Control Panel 3.0

Guys, did you try to change location of "iCloud photo" folder? When I change it, automatic update of my "sreaming photo" folder doesn't work anymore :-(.

Hi All,

My iCloud Photo Stream has been working for one month, so it was with trepidation I installed the new iCloud 3.1 Panel.....and not only does it STILL work...it looks like it is supposed to!  Before this, the "Account Details" rectangle covered my Apple ID...but now it looks like it used to when I had iCloud 2.0 panel.....so, hopefully 3.1 will solve a lot of the problems people are having with PC's and 3.0. 

With iCloud Control Panel 3.1, again when I change default location of "iCloud photos" folder (under Windows "pictures"), automatic update of "my sreaming photo" folder doesn't work anymore :-(

I had hoped the new I Cloud 3.1 control panel would fix my problem with photos being grayed out on the control panel  for my windows 7 computer......NO LUCK>>>>COME ON APPLE!!!!!!  FIX IT!!!!  WORKED GREAT BEFORE 3.0!!!!!!!!!

My problem looked like this: The photostream on my 2 iPhones were empty. The photostream on my windows 7 PC would only download about 200 random pictures and then stop. The iMac iPhoto photostream ("on the web") showed 1000 items, but after I deleted these there was still random old pictures showing up on my PC that I thought were gone after I kept resetting the iCloud control panel on my PC.

For me I needed to delete my photostream from my iPhoto on my iMac. I could not find another way to fix my problem. I realized there were over 5000 images in my photostream after I had a hard drive failure and started a new iPhoto library. Unfortunately the photostream on my iMac would only show the last 1000 uploads so I kept getting confused. I think the problem is that other 4000 images are in the photostream on the web, but not visible on any of the devices or iPhoto on the mac. When I deleted the entire photostream (1000) on my iMac I assumed my photostream was empty, but this was not the case.

My solution was to turn off photostream on my iMac and when I turned it back on it again began downloading the entire photostream (except for the last 1000 I had deleted) and I needed to stay at the computer to continue to delete the photos as they appeared from the beginning. Once all 5000 photos were deleted then my photostream began to function normally. (I initially tried to do this on my iphone, but there is no easy way to select multiple images at once so I would have had to individually tick 5000 images for deletion!)

Also when I delete images from the photo stream folder on my PC it does not delete them from the photostream on the web. Only the iMac (iPhoto) and iPhones can delete the images.

i am having the same issue Photo Stream stopped working on December 12th when icloud went to version 3, Not working on PC windows 7. Please advise.

Having the same issue. The only folder with sync problems is My Photo Stream. The rest running well...

Alex's fix a few pages back works great for many folks, as many others have noted. I've also written up an article about this common issue and Alex's fix, as well as recorded a step-by-step video of the fix as well. It's all now posted at:

TinkerTry.com/fix-the-issue-where-you-upgrade-to-windows-8-1-then-your-photo-str eam-stops-updating

I have tried EVERY solution to get Photo Stream to work after upgrading to WIndows 8.1 64 bit.

Was fine on WIndows 7, although originally had issues and some of the earlier solutions here worked....

I have tried eveything... and like the others My Photo Stream sits there with a grey box.  I can add photos to it and it populates the stream fine... and I can delete those from device or PC and they delete throughotut he stream.  However it will NOT pull down any photos in the stream.. and it will NOT add new photos going from devices to the stream. (the ashared streans work perfect

I have tried

- Uninstall and Reinstrall

- Deleting the Media Stream folders

- Changing locations of the iCLoud Photos

- SIgning on and off

- Making sure firewall was allowing all settings though

- Combing through registry and taking out anything related after uninstalling

Whats weird is that with a new install on a new tablet windows PC I bought, it went fine and works fine.. but my upgraded desktop doesn't

This is VERY frustrating and like many others I use phgotostream a LOT to get photos to my computer.

If anyone has a definitive solution that's not mentioned please let me know... I will pay someone for a working solution... There has to be some setting or service that is causing this... Its so weird that the more complex Shared streams work and populate fine.. this is just My photostream.

Thanks to anyone helps for sure.

Mike

Has anyone tried the Microsoft application for syncing photos with IOS devices? Perhaps that is the answer.

Where is that?

Using the Skydrive application; see http://blogs.windows.com/skydrive/b/skydrive/archive/2013/11/21/smile-camera-bac kup-has-arrived-on-the-new-skydrive-app-for-ios.aspx

For me downgrading to V1 is still working well...