Q: iPhoto 9.5.1: My Photo Stream downloads old photos automatically
I'm using iPhoto 9.5.1 and want to use My Photo Stream, as I have been doing for quite a while. Until recently, I would load new photos manually from my DSLR camera into iPhoto, and those photos would then appear in my Photo Stream. I then could view those photos on my iPhone.
But now something is going terribly wrong. When I turn on the "iCloud" setting within iPhoto, I'm given the option to use my existing iCloud account, and I choose "Use iCloud." Then I see the preferences with check boxes for....
My Photo Stream
--Automatic Import
--Automatic Upload
Photo Sharing
No matter what combination I chose, iPhoto starts to collect apparently random photos from the past four years and "download" them into Photo Stream. I see a note in the upper righthand corner of the window that says "Downloading 24,1399 photos." That process takes several days, occasionally stopping when I reach an "hourly time limit." At the end, there are 1,000 photos in my Photo Stream, but they aren't the 1,000 most recent. They are just 1,000 photos from my entire collection.
The worst part of this, though, is that the process of downloading takes up HUGE amounts of disk space, like 20-30 GBs. That's why I had to start again with My Photo Stream--I ran out of disk space and had to figure out what the heck went wrong. I made the disk space come back by de-selecting My Photo Stream, but now I can't get it working again correctly.
I'm wondering if there's some preference file that's corrupt on my Mac.
Or maybe if there's something I need to do on my phone...? The only thing that has changed recently is that I had to restore my iPhone to its factory settings. Did I set something up incorrectly? And even if I did, why would that cause this weird process on my laptop?
Any help is appreciated.
Posted on Sep 13, 2014 7:42 PM