iCloud photo library slow upload

The "Activity Monitor" was definitely the fix for me!!

I was having slow to no upload before, and now am uploading close to 2000 photos/ hour. I'll take it! Uploaded most of my 18,000 pic / 50 GB library overnight.

In case anyone else is still having this problem, here's what I did:

>"Launchpad"

>"Other"Folder

>"Activity Monitor"

>Click on the "Network" tab

>Sort by "Sent Bytes" column

>Force quit everything using sent bytes besides two processes that are accounted for by the cloud upload:
"cloudd" and "nsurlsessiond" should remain open

Took a second for my laptop to jumpstart the upload but its been going at a great speed since! For computer noobs like me also make sure to set your laptop so that it stays "awake" and therefore continues the upload even if it times out.

Do this by going to the >Launchpad >System preferences > Energy Saver > Drag computer sleep to "Never"

Thanks all for your helpful comments!

I have Cox Gigablast and am uploading @ 550mb/s and it is still taking forever. There was no difference between plugging my Ethernet cable or Wifi. The issues are on Apple's side. Boy do I miss Steve Jobs!

I also have the same problem, only now it's totally jammed on uploading and since this morning, it hasn't moved at all. I've got no idea what to do, I have tried everything and also after 3 days with all energy settings switched off, it has managed to upload less than 200 photographs.

All help out there gratefully received, although there seems to be many, many of us with the same issues.

Is it possible to just switch it off, revert back to iPhoto and try it all again in a few months when it's all sorted out? And if so, any idea on how we do that?

Many thanks

Lucy

Ditto.

Today have uploaded 200 images total! Still on 10,888 to go, from a total just over 18k - I started this process 2 weeks ago! 2 WEEKS!

At this rate I have around 2+ weeks left.

I also have increased iCloud storage to accomodate the large library. It's shockingly slow. Have left mac on for days on end with energy saver off (screen will turn off only) and still the upload is woeful.

Add to that, no ability to cherry pick which albums should be uploaded to iCloud - its all or nothing! I'm having to wait till the entire upload is complete before culling and properly organising images. I used to like to keep everything - but if this is the slow workflow then its time to do a massive cull.

Hello all,

I have exactly the same trouble : 24 hours to upload only 20 photos and i'm still waiting for more than 9000 pictures...

What should we do ?

That is strange, on my iphone is faster... i have wait during some days and then it was very very fast... (less photos)

and on my ipad (only some picutres 50) it was done in less than 12 hours...

I hope someone will find a solution

What is your upload speed?

Test it here

I'm getting around 5-6mbs upload speeds via Sky.

The broadband has never been an issue (I sync all work to Dropbox - 2-400mb PSD files fly up in a a few minutes - Dropbox has been on pause for days to make room for Photos!).

Checking the Network tab in Activity Monitor I get an average Data sent/sec number based on the speedtest. It's nowhere near but its ok.

As soon as I fire up Photos that number tanks.

I just tried it again, and currently the number stands at zero - with Photos running in the background!

Parbinder Johal wrote:

I'm getting around 5-6mbs upload speeds via Sky.

Run the test, post a screenshot of the results here.

Doesn't answer the question I asked, which was of someone who is not you.

Hey Guys,

for me its like this:

I started iCloud Photos on the day 10.10.3 came out.

I had about 9000 photos in iPhoto.

I upgraded the storage to 200GB in iCloud.

The I started the upload an it seamed to be fine.

After some days some foots where uploaded an photos from my iPhone worked fine to.

Then the upload on the iMac stopped and never went up again.

Newer foots taken on the iPhone were uploaded fine and the already uploaded photos from the iMac were shown on the iMac.

But no new photo appeared on the iMac and the upload has completely stopped now.

When i stop the upload and start it again ist shows for a breif moment tha about 2000 photos has to be uploaded, but after a short time the number goes up to over 9000 an never goes down again.

Has anyone a solution for this?

My upload speed seams to be fine because i have no problem on the iPhone.

Sorry for the bad english, I'm from Germany

Basti

Stu_Males wrote:

My bad. I take it you can't help me then?

Not without both halves of the equation. How fast (which you have posted) and how much (size of your library)

BassT87 wrote:

Hey Guys,

for me its like this:

I started iCloud Photos on the day 10.10.3 came out.

I had about 9000 photos in iPhoto.

How many photos is irrelevant, how large a library is what matters. In GB.