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ryanepps
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Q: its ben over a week and my photos are still not done uploading

Its been over a week now since ios 8.3 and the latest mac os and the new photos app.  I have had my laptop (macbook pro about 3 months old 8gb memory etc etc) on constantly, i had about 11.000 photos to start so bought the extra storage. Im on virgin media superfast broadband about 50gb but so far i have about 9.345 photos left to upload, why is it taking SO long!! Ive been through lots of the albums and deleted a few hundred photos already.  How the heck can i speed this up???

Posted on Apr 19, 2015 3:37 PM

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Q: its ben over a week and my photos are still not done uploading

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  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Apr 19, 2015 3:41 PM in response to ryanepps
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    Apr 19, 2015 3:41 PM in response to ryanepps

    What is your upload speed (50gb is not the upload speed, it's not the download speed either, but that's another story)

     

    Measure the actual speed here. speedof.me

     

    Then post a screenshot so we can see what it really is,

  • by ryanepps,

    ryanepps ryanepps Apr 19, 2015 3:56 PM in response to Csound1
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    Apr 19, 2015 3:56 PM in response to Csound1

    Hi,

     

    I just saw you mention this on another post.  I have looked into it and its REALLY slow, I never really upload stuff online but it seems i have been placed into 'traffic management' by Virgin, Im going to pause the upload for a day, and give it a chance to recover, and see if that does anything... it will also be very nice to turn off the laptop.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Apr 19, 2015 4:58 PM in response to ryanepps
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    Apr 19, 2015 4:58 PM in response to ryanepps

    ryanepps wrote:

     

    Hi,

     

    I just saw you mention this on another post.  I have looked into it and its REALLY slow,

    That doesn't tell me anything, but if you must keep it a secret that is up to you.

  • by Lisalesa,

    Lisalesa Lisalesa Apr 19, 2015 7:49 PM in response to Csound1
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    Apr 19, 2015 7:49 PM in response to Csound1

    Hi, I have the same problem and this is my speed result:

    Download Speed: 3.27 Mbps Upload Speed: 590 kbps  kbps Latency: 243 ms | Max Download: 3.28 | Max Upload: 0.59 04-20-2015 | Test Server:  Speed: 3270 kbps Time: 12:31:56.112 Test Complete. Date Speed (M b ps) History 12:28 12:29 12:30 0

     

    My photo library is only 1.6Gb,  how come it only uploaded 76 pictures in 13hrs, can't be real!

    Or any other solutions for transferring  the photos that i edited on my ipad through "photos" in the edited version to my PC?

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Apr 20, 2015 6:43 AM in response to Lisalesa
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    Apr 20, 2015 6:43 AM in response to Lisalesa

    At your (very low) speed uploading your library will take around 8 to 10 hours for your entire Library (assuming everything is working correctly) realistically you should expect double that.

     

    You need a better Internet provider.

  • by AlexLondonUK,

    AlexLondonUK AlexLondonUK Apr 22, 2015 9:39 AM in response to ryanepps
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    Apr 22, 2015 9:39 AM in response to ryanepps

    I had similar problems until I realised that the upload would always cease at a particular item. So, I repaired the photo library by opening Photos while holding down the alt and cmd keys (next to the space bar). After the library was fixed the upload was reasonably fast (20K+ pics and vids in 3 days) on an upload speed of 8 Mbps. You should be able to see some progress as items are being uploaded. Complete lack of activity probably means that nothing is uploading!

  • by Lisalesa,

    Lisalesa Lisalesa Apr 23, 2015 3:12 AM in response to ryanepps
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    Apr 23, 2015 3:12 AM in response to ryanepps

    after one week of frustration with no progresses at all, eventually yesterday I downloaded "Photo Transfer App" on both PC and IPad. I managed to transfer all my pics in the edited version in only few minutes, Superawesome!!!

    I really recommend to stop waisting your time with ICloud Photo Library and download that app!