Uploading photos to iCloud Photo Library

Yes, I use www.speedtest.net.

Use Speedof.me and post a screenshot of the results.

So, you have an upload speed of 7.89 Mb/s

60GB at that speed will require a minimum of 22.5 hours, this is a minimum time and assumes a constant connection at the speed of this test.

Yeah, I've been trying to do it for 2 weeks now. 8 hours here, 7 hours there. If it gets interrupted for any reason, does it start all over again? It would be hard to keep your laptop going uninterrupted for that long.

PipeyDoodle wrote:

Yeah, I've been trying to do it for 2 weeks now. 8 hours here, 7 hours there. If it gets interrupted for any reason, does it start all over again? It would be hard to keep your laptop going uninterrupted for that long.

It should restart after the last upload, not at the beginning, can you leave it overnight (don't let it sleep)

Yeah, I've left it overnight several times. In the morning it's always frozen (something like "uploading 9543 items" and the number doesn't change for hours). I've turned off Energy Saving so it doesn't shut down. I've kept it as the front window. I guess if I could put it in isolation for a month and not use it, it might work. But this is my daily laptop. I use it and take it places.

I get the feeling it's treating the last 9000+ images as a single upload. If gets stuck, it has to start all over again and then gets stuck again. Maybe there's a bad file somewhere in the batch that is the sticking point. But how would I ever find that?

One work around I found was to go directly to iCloud.com and use the upload button to add images. That works. But I have to go through and choose the photos I want to upload as opposed to letting the software figure it out. Is that my best option?

I would just leave it on until it completes.