How long would you expect 20, 000 photos to uplu oad from the new photos app to iCloud library

Mine loaded in about 2.5 hours... 18,500 +/- I wouldn't restart it... Just go have some coffee and read the paper...

PaulineP60 wrote:

Hi,

ffinally have done what you suggested,me hole my Mac us still downloading ( nearly 2days now) My photos take up 210 GB storage. I checked the upload speed as you said - it is 340 Kbps

That is extremely low, it's going to take a while I'm afraid.

Somewhere between 2004 hours and 1002 hours is as near as i can get based on a 340Kbps upload rate.

Which means that 2GB (which you say is uploaded) would have been about 14 hours approximately.

That's some slow connection you have there 😟

In order to estimate how long it will take 2 things are needed, the size of the upload (in GB) and the speed of the connection, then an estimate can be made. I have no info about your connection or the library size, sorry.

If you browse to speedof.me you can measure your speed (upload) and if you go to your iPhoto Library (in the pictures folder) you can 'Get Info' on it and you'll know the size.

Pauline, perhaps this will give you an idea of how long it might take.

I have 33,000+ photos in my library, which take around 300GB of space. My Internet connection is very fast – 100MB/sec+ down and about 12MB/sec up. My first day of uploads to iCloud transferred about 30GB of content, or 10% of my total, and it was relatively constant in upload speed throughout the day, because I was curious and inspected the upload rate frequently. I expect my library will take 10 days to fully upload.

You might calculate your rate using the ratios of your upload speed and library size.

It's been several days now and not a single photo has uploaded from my iMac to the cloud. Great, I get "persuaded" to pay out a monthly charge for this and the deamned thing doesn't work at all.

And now, iCloud sync seems to be taking forever across all my devices and my iMac gets none of them.

Pauline.....I am not an expert at this either, but my guess would be that it is NOT your connection speed. You say that not a single photo has been updated to the cloud?? Then common sense would be that the problem has to be something else. May your iCloud configuration is not set up right?

Can one of the more advanced Mac Users jump in on this one!! Please help Pauline out!! Thanks!!

Christopher Kryzan wrote:

Pauline, perhaps this will give you an idea of how long it might take.

I have 33,000+ photos in my library, which take around 300GB of space. My Internet connection is very fast – 100MB/sec+ down and about 12MB/sec up.

Just to keep this accurate ..... That's incorrect, your download is 100Mb/sec and your upload is 12Mb/s, note this is not the same as 12MB/s, it is 8 times slower + there is a 20% overhead involved.

MB = Megabyte

Mb = Megabit

There are 8 bits in a byte.

Your speeds are 'as advertised' but unless you test them who knows what they really are (in my experience less than you pay for)

That is indeed correct, Csound. "MB" vs. "Mb" was just me typing fast. The transfer speeds I quoted, however, were based on empirical data, although it seems to have sped up overnight, uploading over 60GB in about 36 hours.

Pauline, you can find out the status of the upload by going to System Preferences -> iCloud and mousing over the blue bar in the thermometer at the bottom of the window. It should be some value greater than zero, and increasing with time.

I have only 140 GB with the same connection Csound1 has. After about 6 hours not much had happened, so I broke off and deactivated the iCloud-Sync. I paid effectively for the iCloud-Upgrade for one month after downgrading to the free 5 GB (you know how to do that?).

Question to Pauline: why would you want the iCloud sync?? Are you working with several Macs,iPads etc.?

If not there are far easier ways to make a backup 😁

Frans Zantvoort wrote:

Question to Pauline: why would you want the iCloud sync?? Are you working with several Macs,iPads etc.?

If not there are far easier ways to make a backup 😁

iCloud Photo Library is not a backup, don't think that it is because you'll be let down one day. Synchronized storage is in no way a backup, for that you need unsynchronized storage.

If your upload speed is always around 0.3Mbps (340 Kbps) it will take a very long time, think of it like a very big bucket being filled through a very small hose.

Check your upload speed again, is it still round 340?