Photos never finishes uploading to iCloud

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olvy-bxl Author

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Photos never finishes uploading to iCloud

Hi everyone,

I've upgraded may mac to Yosemite 10.10.3 a month ago.

I activated iCloud Photo Library, after having subscribed for 200Gb of storage.

Everything looks fine, I can access all my photos from both my iPhone and my iPad.

However, Photos never finishes telling it is uploading my pics from my Mac. I have the same message in the pref. window for the last four weeks or so.

More than that, I have ONLY some 14000 pics in my Photos Library. So how comes Preferences indicates a much higher number of photos (on this screen shot 21773, in other cases 28000 which is twice the number of my pics!)

More than that, my internet provider fined me for having used more than my 200Gb monthly allowance. It seems as syncing has put itself into a never ending loop.

I've relaunched Photo app dozens of times, I restarted may mac again and again. The strange phenomenon goes on…

Thank you for any advice.

Olvy

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on May 28, 2015 9:30 AM

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Simon Turnill

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Jun 14, 2015 4:10 AM in response to olvy-bxl

+ 1 - Same here. Have had Photos app running for what seems like weeks now, and it as if it has just started. Every time I check it, I think it will say finished, or something, but no, still uploading... more and more. Have signed out of iCloud, deleted everything in the iCloud photo library, done every troubleshooting step I could find on the web, and am losing patience.

Notice how the number uploading is actually greater than the total number of photos in my library, and yet the progress bar hasn't even emerged!

Also, viewing Photos via iCloud on the web constantly shows 'updating' as well. What am I doing wrong?

So I have no idea how many photos have actually made it into iCloud, no idea whether the uploading process will ever end, and no idea whether I can be sure that my photos are safely stored offsite. Not very impressed...

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Lexiepex

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Jun 14, 2015 4:46 AM in response to olvy-bxl

1. Do you have enough free space on iCloud ?

2. Say your photos have a 15MB size on average, then 20'000+ photos is a lot of data 300GB... how long you think this will take ??? uploading a few photos into an existing backup will be quick, but the first time it will take a **** of a lot of time.

Lex

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olvy-bxl Author

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Jun 14, 2015 1:41 PM in response to Lexiepex

HI LexSchellings

My photo library makes 45Gb. I have 200Gb iCloud space, so free space is probably not the issue.

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Jul 8, 2015 5:11 AM in response to olvy-bxl

+1

same here -12000 photos/1000 videos/18- Gig. 5000 have uploaded using up 92 Gb of my 200Gb iCloud storage, but now it seems stalled.

Upgraded to 10.10.4 the other day anti looked for a while like it was working, but no it stalled again.

not impressed.

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Answer 5

Nov 29, 2015 9:14 AM in response to olvy-bxl

I have exactly the same problem ("Uploading 31,022 items", for weeks now). And only part of my photos are now on iCloud. Any insights on how to solve it?

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