My iCloud Photo Stream is not syncing correctly to my Windows 8.1 laptop or my Windows 7 PC.

Howard....I want to thank you! I followed your instructions...it worked perfectly! I just realized today that since October my photos weren't syncing from my iphone to my pc. Thanks to you I have all my pics and the problem solved!

Howard could you please send me a copy as well. Have been having issue for 2 months now and tried all other fixes i could find.

Thank you

cerebrojh@aol.com

Howard, could u please give me iCloud Panel 2.x Thanks

alphabrera@mail.ru

I would also appreciate if someone would email me the icloud 2.1.2

Thanks in advance 🙂

jacobr100@gmail.com

Have uninstalled iCloud 3 & got as far as the Apple folder in windows 8.1 but can not find Installer Cache folder - also I do not have iCloud 2 so would appreciate an installation file for 2x if you can send it to: professional.cleaning60@gmail.com

Many thanks!

I have been following this discussion. I do not have Windows 8 but rather Windows 7.

And commented last year about this iCloud photo syncing problem. It continues unless I sign out of iCloud and then immediately sign back in. At that point all the photos transfer in to my computer.

I have not uninstalled any files.

I wonder if others with Windows 8 systems have tried this simpler fix?

The "fix" [which was really just a rollback] that I posted has been used by at least 15-20 folks. I don't know actually how many but these were the folks that got the 2.x installation file from me. They were a combination of win7 and win8 users. All but one of the win8 users were able to follow the instructions and get PhotoStream working again perfectly.

I would love to be able to update to 3.1. I like to be current on all of my software but in this case it doesn't do any good to be current if current doesn't work.

I'm most flumoxed by the win8 folks who have never had win7, have never had the pre-3.x iCloud software and still can't get it to work.

I'm still watching this thread in the hopes of an ah ha moment.

I had this problem on my win7 machin and the downgrade fixed that. My win8 machine was OK until the 8.1 upgrade when phot stream stopped working. A downgrade did not fix the problem until I set the compatibility mode on the properties of the executable to win7.

Not sure if this is the correct forum for this question, but my Photostream is sort of working. My shared streams are downloading to my PC almost instantly, but my Photostream is not downloading to my PC when new photos are added. Right now I have to move all new photos to the Shared Stream to push them to my Windows 7 PC. Any thoughts???

Well, after 40 years in the computer industry, I still hate it when something changes and there is no apparent explanation. As new thoughts have come up on this thread, I've tried them. Tried rolling back go 2.1 - no workie. Tried setting up a new folder - nope. Tried reinstalling iCloud 3.1 AND setting up a new folder and it sorta worked. At least the missing pictures showed up. But new ones didn't ... at first. But there were there the next time I looked. That was a couple of weeks ago. Since then, any pictures I take on my iPhone do go to the cloud because I can see them on my iPad. And, the next morning they are there in my designated PC folder. So, I went to look for a mechanism to force a sync - but nothing was apparent. Someone in a recent post suggested signing out of iCloud, then signing back in. So, I tried that - and there they were, the pictures I'd just taken with my phone. So, it's not a solution, but sort of works. And it beats emailing the pictures to myself and even beats using the photo transfer app that I found - fewer steps than signing out and back in. Still, it's a pain in the butt and I'm still angry with the Bozos at apple and microsoft (capital letters not used on purpose).

For you guys at a&m, if you happen along onto this forum and this thread - GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER!

Perhaps there's an alternative - maybe Google will put something together that we can use. At least they're innovative and seem to love to stick it to a&m, even if they're no more responsive than they.

Hey Papa Bear. If anyone from Apple or Microsoft are on this forum its most likely because they're trying to figure out how to make Photo Stream work on their own PC.

Good point. What was I thinking? Perhaps they got lost in the forum ether and wound up here. A bit more likely than the thought that anyone there might care, right?

Brings me to my point and back to the flogging concept: there's got to be a way to get under their skin, to get attention to this kind of think, to get some action. Have an idea - can't hurt. Will get back to you after I've done a little research.

PapaBear a.k.a Dave

I tried doing the uninstall of the latest version and install the previous version - however once I did that it told me I was missing some information - I didn't write down what it said but I can go back and do it again if that would help. I have tried numerous times logging out and into Icloud and that does nothing -

I am running Windows 7 64

I'm not aware of anyone else having an issue going back on Win 7 if they followed the instructions that were posted here.

Did you get the "missing information" message (1) when you uninstalled the original version or (2) when you installed the 2.x version or (3) when you logged into iCloud or (4) when you attempted to configure iCloud?

You're gonna have to provide a little more info...

The error message that I got when trying to move back to iCloud 2.0.x was "The procedure entry point _objc_init_image could not be located in the dynamic link library objc.dll" This was after I uninstalled iCloud 3.0 and after I installed 2.0.x. The other discussions all suggested updating to 3.0.x.