Yosemite Photos iCloud photo sharing not working

Now that I have the shared streams working again, I would like to add that I am still seeing an issue with quite a bit of 'white space' where the thumbnail images should be:

When I double-click anywhere in the white space I am taken to wherever that photo should be in it's album/date but still only see lots of white space and strangely, some black thumbnails:

If I double click on either a white, or a black thumbnail image the original image will load:

When I return to the previous album, I still see the same white and black thumbnails.

I am unable to repair the library either - I used to be have that option when holding down the option (alt) & command keys but now, noting happens and Photos opens normally. I am also noticing that every time I open Photos it nags be about using iPhoto Photo Library even though each time I click on the "not now" option.

I'm not sure if others are experiencing this issue as well and/or if it's related.

LaCollision

Thanks for the info.

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.cloudphotosd

I originally deleted this folder: "~/Library/Containers/com.apple.cloudphotosd/Data/Library/Application Support/com.apple.cloudphotosd" (Granted,after deleted this folder I didn't uncheck the options for "My Photo Stream" & "iCloud Photo Sharing" in System Preferences> iCloud and then reenable these options.)

It wasn't until I deleted "~/Library/Containers/com.apple.cloudphotosd" (and then unchecked the options for "My Photo Stream" & "iCloud Photo Sharing" in System Preferences> iCloud and then reenabled these options.) that i was able to see my shared streams again.

After trying a disk permissions repair, restarting my Mac and many more attempts to invoke the "repair library" while holding the opt & command keys, I finally got the option to repair:

And still, the issue with white and/or black thumbnails remains:

This worked for me. Thank you!

This worked for me. I'm not sure how you found yourself down that rabbit hole of a file path, but it worked. Thanks for diggin'!

I should mention, this problem started after a time machine restore. Shared albums worked fine until then. I did gain 10GB on the ol' hard drive though. Yay, for me.

Mac Mini 2009

Yosemite

Cleverfeets, that did the trick for me too. I had to follow your instructions here and then it worked like a charm!

It wasn't until I deleted "~/Library/Containers/com.apple.cloudphotosd" (and then unchecked the options for "My Photo Stream" & "iCloud Photo Sharing" in System Preferences> iCloud and then reenabled these options.) that i was able to see my shared streams again.

THIS WORKED for me, yay. iPhoto streams are back and syncing up!

I had the same problem on a few Macs I did a TM restore onto. I tried everything and only found one fix. Although I am going to try the ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.cloudphotosd fix next time but for the record in case this fix does not work for everyone, I found deleting the profile and setting up a new one fixed it. This only works if you run multiple profiles and it is not particularly convenient as you need to re-tweek the profile to you liking but the shared streams at least start re-syncing.

Thanks for this, it worked for me after MANY hours on the phone with apple tech support !!!

It’s taken 4 weeks for all my photos to upload to iCloud (15000+ of them: photography is my hobby....just done it overnight): needed to redo all my energy saver settings for the duration) NOW all my pics are "synching” perfectly.....just a 4 week glitch...lol....

I have the same issue. put a TimeMachine backup back after replacing the HD (I now have a SSHD). However, I cannot find the directory you're referring to. I searched all over my HD, but there is no /Users/gerbertgoes/Library/Containers...... directory. I also looked for any of the other folders inside that directory. Nothing...

Any insights you might have to help me out? Thx!

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I have the same issue. put a TimeMachine backup back after replacing the HD (I now have a SSHD). However, I cannot find the directory you're referring to. I searched all over my HD, but there is no /Users/gerbertgoes/Library/Containers...... directory. I also looked for any of the other folders inside that directory. Nothing...

Any insights you might have to help me out? Thx!

While you have Finder open on your desktop and it is the active window, click 'Go' on the Menu Bar and click 'Go to Folder' and paste in the link provided in the post above:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.cloudphotosd/Data/Library/Application Support/com.apple.cloudphotosd

Make sure you have the '~' character at the beginning.

Then click 'Go'.

And I've learned something new... Every day is a schoolday! Thanks iphi, that worked like a charm!

Thanks, your suggestion worked for me first time 🙂

After restore with Time Machine a 2nd time. Photos sharing not working (but the first time no problem) !

But it's solved !!! All working after try this :

Delete this folder : /Users/Gotier/Library/Containers/com.apple.cloudphotosd

...After restart and enjoy !!

Thanks very much, your solution did the trick.