Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
I have just decided (24 hours ago) to switch on the iCloud library for my Mac. I have about 10,000 photos.
Photos says "updating", the progress bar hasn't moved at all and only a few of them have appeared in the cloud so far.
How long does this take? Do I have a problem? I don't want to switch it off and lose any progress, but nor do I want to leave it on if nothing is ever going to happen?
Thanks
MacBook Pro with Retina display, iOS 8.3
It will depend on the speed of your network. my library with 40000 photos finished the upload within one day on a very fast ethernet connection, but if you have a slow Wi-Fi, you may have to wait more than week for the upload to finish.
Sometimes corrupted media files will block the upload.
Can you tell from the last photo that uploaded to iCloud what the next photo or video should have been? Inspect the item in Photos. Try to edit or export it. Is it possible?
Some items cannot upload to icloud - videos with an unsupported codec, referenced images, where the original image file is missing. Are your photos stored on drive, that can go offline? For example a NAS?
It will depend on the speed of your network. my library with 40000 photos finished the upload within one day on a very fast ethernet connection, but if you have a slow Wi-Fi, you may have to wait more than week for the upload to finish.
Sometimes corrupted media files will block the upload.
Can you tell from the last photo that uploaded to iCloud what the next photo or video should have been? Inspect the item in Photos. Try to edit or export it. Is it possible?
Some items cannot upload to icloud - videos with an unsupported codec, referenced images, where the original image file is missing. Are your photos stored on drive, that can go offline? For example a NAS?
I have the same issue as the first person: been in "Updating..." for more than a day except that I haven't seen a single photo or video get uploaded yet to iCloud. I tried your suggestion of trying to edit/export the first file in my library as well as the last file (I wasn't sure where the auto-upload will start...the oldest or newest photo?).
My connection is wired and showing 120 Mbps so that doesn't appear to be an issue.
Any other ideas?
It would be helpful if Apple would reply to this. Clearly based on the number of posts here and online this is not all just a network problem from the user or a corrupt file. Apple, please reply. Why are your servers so slow? Honestly, would users be better with another cloud service?
Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.
Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem or a suggestion for change. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem/suggested change solved sooner.
How long to upload photos to iCloud
