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

Would you please send me the old version? I've also tried EVERYTHING possible and still can't get it to work. My email address is: cheetozmartini@yahoo.com

Thanks so much in advance!

Thanks😊, stupid of me not to have tried this one, big Thank you!

Mizoo's method worked for me too! Try it before undertaking these other more-drastic approaches.

Thanks Mizoo!

Thanks very much for your post and instructions. It solved my problem!!!!!

And still one more thanks, Mizoo. My photo stream stopped syncing in the midst of pix I took at a vortex in Gold Hills OR ... thought it was some mysterious force of nature (e.g., balls roll uphill there). Even spent 45 minutes at my local Genius Bar to no avail.

I have tried every solution I found on the internet for this problem and none of them have ever worked for me. And this is something that I experimentally tried and it amazingly worked for me. 🙂

By the way I have got a PC with Windows 7.

Here is what you need to do:

1. Sign out of iCloud Control Panel.
2. And go to "C:\Users\"YourUserName"\Pictures\iCloud Photos" folder and delete both the "My Photo Stream" and "Shared" folders. (by the way, you might want to save your pictures to another location before you do this).
3. Sign in to iCloud Control Panel and you will start seeing all the pictures that were taken for the last 30 days. (30 days is a iCloud policy I guess)
4. Take another picture and see if shows up on your PC right away.

Enjoy your pictures. 🙂

Thanks for the information about 30 days. It is exactly what happened. Now I understand why. I took another picture and I saw it on my PC!

Thanks

Don't forget, Photostream can only hold 1000 photos. After that, no more new ones will be added. That was a surprise to me. And I too was shocked to learn that the photos only stay for 30 days! I haven't verified this yet, but what, if you don't download them by then they just go away? What if they have been sync'd to the ICloud directory on my PC, but I don't copy them to a different directory—will they be deleted from my drive too?!! If so, that should be made clearer. Have I lost photos forever because I trusted them to Photostream/iCloud?!

Hmmm. I don't have 1000 photos in my photo stream. It still is not updating on my pc. groan. one day over the rainbow... guess it's back to going out and "downloading" from the iCloud... just one more "cloudy experience" heh.

Thank you! My photos haven't been syncing from my phone to my PC for almost a month. After trying several of the solutions in this thread (except rolling back to an older version of icloud control panel), I followed your suggestion and it worked! I now have all my photos in My Photostream.

Okay, I'm beaten on this one, I have no more time to spend trying to get iCloud 4.0 set up on my PC. I even tried the older versions, no good there either. So Apple can take this piece of crap software and shove it where the sun don't shine. They've taken several hours of my life, and just another mark in the minus column for Apple software quality to show for it. No excuse for junk like this.

Of course, it installs bonjour as well, much needed for automatic downloads from iCloud to my PC to work *sigh*. That should be optional, if I need bonjour I can ask to have it installed. Or at least have the opportunity to not install it. As it is, I've uninstalled bonjour at least 10 times today. Whoopee!

I did notice that when I go to iCloud.com, I can go into my "Photos" and select my photos for download, and then download them manually. That's as good as it's going to get for me for the time being. Takes me back a few years, too...hurrah for nostalgia! Hundreds of dollars invested in Apple mobile devices and this is as good as it gets. Google does much better at this stuff, maybe Apple should have them teach them how to write networking software that works.

The end.

OK. We have a winner! Does just what you said it would - loading most recent photos. Also, to my surprise, it recreated my shared folder and contents. Thanks for all your experiments.

hi,

the apple link is no longer accessible!!

Hello Howard,

Can you please send me version 2 to hala_gafi@hotmail.com

The first time I ever installed icloud for windows was version 4 but it only gave me 5 photos and could see no backup files. tried to unitstall/ clean/ re-install, changed compatibility - removed read only etc.. with no luck!!

following your suggestion, I downloaded version 2 some days ago from apple support threads supplied on apple discussions and it gave me the "object not found" msg when trying to sign in to icloud from the start menu,so uninstalled again and did the cleaning.

I want to give it a retry but i can no longer find that version

Help pls with any new suggestions. my apple device is iphone 4

One more thing: i've never installed itunes on my pc, tried once from the apple software updates that came with version 4 but then i cancelled it. Does this mean anything??

Thanks for giving me some of your time

Halo

I'm using iCloud 4.0.2 and this is working for me to using the default path i.e. C:\Users\username\Pictures\iCloud Photos\My Photo Stream

has anyone been able to get it working using a different path? Whenever I try changing it to D:\Pictures\ it stops - this is where I had it directed to for years up until January 2015.