Migrated over to Photos. I see all my pictures, but when I click on the Shared button up top it hangs showing “Connecting to Library” and below that “Retrieving latest photo sharing activity”.
I’ve tried disable and reenabling iCloud options, but to no avail.
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
I'm having the exact same issue, I've tried creating a new photos library and setting it as the systems photo library in preferences. I've also tried re-setting the iCloud permissions on both the system and in the photos app, still no luck - it gets stuck on the "Connecting to Library" it eventually changes to the iCloud Photo Sharing screen and a button to share new albums but when I try to create a new share album nothing happens.
Photo sharing works fine on my other devices, ipad, iphone etc. - judt no luck on my imac.
iMac 27" (Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
Fixed it!!!🙂
First make sure you have your machine set up to display hidden files. (Mine was turned off to hide all those darn .DS files so that was job number one).
This link shows how to do it if you need to thru terminal.
https://pixelgrinch.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/mac-os-x-show-hidden-files-in-yosem ite/
Then
1. Close Photos
2. Go to System Preferences, iCloud, Photos and disable “My photo Stream” and “iCloud Photo Sharing”
3. Go to folder /Users/YourUser/Library/Containers/com.apple.cloudphotosd/Data/Library/Applicat ion Support/com.apple.cloudphotosd/services
4. Delete com.apple.photo.icloud.myphotostream and com.apple.photo.icloud.sharedstreams folders
5. Enable “My photo Stream” and “iCloud Photo Sharing” again.
6. Start Photos. After a while, the shared photos will start coming although may take a while.
Last step, go back and hide hidden files, again shown on link above.
That did it! Working now with your suggested steps. Good find Dublin, much appreciated!
This helped me, too. Thanks!
Thanks Dublin!
So, I may have spoken too soon. It downloaded most of my photo stream from today, but not a few of the pictures. I would hate to have to follow this procedure daily.
I was about to try Dublin's tip above, but on a hunch I used Disk Utility to Check Permissions and then to Verify my hard disk. Sure enough, it found several errors. I had to reboot in order to fix them, but it only took about 10 minutes and then my Photo Sharing started working like a charm!!
Here is some more info on how to use Disk Utility: Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks - Apple Support
and http://osxdaily.com/2015/01/13/repair-disk-permissions-mac-os-x/
Photos not sharing to iCloud or My Photo Stream. Help!
