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Q: shared photostream upload stopped

I decided to create some shared photo streams on my mac. I started uploading and everything was fine, then it just stopped. I did a little research and found out that there are limits of 1000 photos uploaded an hour then the upload pauses until the next hour. OK... well it's been at least 3 hours and nothing is happening. I also noticed that some of what I uploaded shows up on my devices, but not on my Mac, weird. right? I restarted iPhoto and even restarted the computer in case there was a glitch somewhere. Does anyone have any insight? I even tried deleting a stream and recreating it, nothing happened.

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Dec 3, 2014 11:22 AM

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Q: shared photostream upload stopped

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  • by Scott Litman1,Helpful

    Scott Litman1 Scott Litman1 Dec 3, 2014 3:26 PM in response to Unnamed For Personal Reasons
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    Dec 3, 2014 3:26 PM in response to Unnamed For Personal Reasons

    I'm having a very similar issue.  On my end...

     

    - Made a new Shared Photo Stream

    - Selected a group of 522 pictures in iPhoto

    - Clicked on "Add To", picked "iCloud" and selected the new Photo Stream

    - Pictures seemed to start to copy into the Photo Stream

     

    An hour later...

     

    - When I looked at the Photo Stream in iPhoto, there were 60 pictures

    - When I looked on multiple iOS devices that I had shared the photos, there were 388 photos viewable

     

    So what's going on?

     

    - Its been 36 hours and I still just see 60 pictures in the Shared Photo Stream in iPhoto.  Where are the other 462 images?

    - And what's going on with the iOS devices, multiple devices see 388 photos from that shared stream, where are the other 134 images?

     

    I've read and re-read the instructions on what to do, but it just doesn't seem that hard or confusing from a user standpoint.  But what's going on and why is this so flakey?  Should I just see 522 pictures in the iPhoto Shared Photo Stream?  And shouldn't I see 522 pictures on all iOS devices?

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    Unnamed For Personal Reasons Unnamed For Personal Reasons Dec 3, 2014 6:05 PM in response to Scott Litman1
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    Dec 3, 2014 6:05 PM in response to Scott Litman1

    I ended up walking away and after a few hours I tried uploading the pix again to the blank album or where it left off earlier and all the the pix came through this time. I was careful not to go over 1000 and it seemed to work but I have no idea why it didn't the first time. Sorry this isn't much help.