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Dino1956 Author

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Photos App On Mac - My Photostream Not Updating

On all my Devices My Photostream updates & Synchs as it should except on my Mac with the newer Photos App. I also still have iPhoto on my Mac & it also updates & Synchs perfectly as well. The most I get is 99 Photos on My Photostream in Photos. I am running Yosemite. I have tried turning off Photodtram on all my Devices & tfirst turning My Photostream back on in Photos on the Mac. 99 Photos is all it will download & Synch. I have over 800 photos.

iMac 27" 3.06 GHz. ATI 4670 4GB 1TB, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Jul 27, 2015 7:54 PM

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Dino1956 Author

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Jul 30, 2015 6:15 AM in response to Winston Churchill

Ok if I understand you correctly iPhoto's iCloud's Photostream needs to be turned off. But here's the thing. My Photos Library never got migrated from iPhoto. I had to Build the Library manually. Is there a way to wipe the Photos Library, Start over & force it to migrate the iPhotos Library?

@laspen: That's exactly my situation.

Dino1956 Author

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Jul 30, 2015 8:51 AM in response to laspen

OK. Here's my plan. A bit of work but it may solve the problem. I copied the Photos Library to an external hard drive. I deleted the Photos Library out of my Pictures folder. The only thing left on my Mac under Pictures is the iPhoto Library. Photos should hopefully open & ask if I want it to find Pictures to add to the Photo Library. This is where I went wrong last time. I said No and added to Photos Manually. So it did not merge with the iPhoto Library as Winston pointed out earlier. This time I will say Yes, Look for Photos on this Mac & just maybe that will do it. I will let you know either way.

Dino1956 Author

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Jul 30, 2015 10:05 AM in response to Dino1956

Ok. My Plan Did Not Work! Not only that. Now there is no My Photostream Folder. ;-) When I go to Preferences in Photos, When I Select iCloud it says this:

" iCloud Features for Photos Are Only Available In The System Photo Library". Just to make sure it did not mean System Preferences I went in there under iCloud & Photostream & Turned it Off then On again & that did not help. So now I have NO My Photostream Folder in Photos. One step backwards.

Dino1956 Author

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Jul 30, 2015 10:24 AM in response to Dino1956

Ok got My Photosream back Under General I had to click On "Use As System Photo Library". But I'm back to square one. Only 53 Photos in My Photostream & I just too a Picture on my iPhone & it did not synch. Wow! This is really bad!

Dino1956 Author

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Jul 30, 2015 1:03 PM in response to Winston Churchill

I must have migrated correctly this time because when I open iPhoto it asks me if I want to open iPhoto or Photos telling me it was migrated. And when I go into iCloud (Photostream) in iPhoto, I see I am not Signed In in just like in the photo you posted. But I am still not synching in Photos Photostream. I even went so far as to turn off Photostream on my iPad & then delete about 100 photos off of my iPhone's Photostream. So my Photostream on my iPhone now has 523 photos in it. And that's about how many my Photos Photostream should have. But it doesn't. No where near. Do I somehow have photos somewhere in the cloud that maybe got stuck, if that's at all even possible?

Jul 31, 2015 1:44 AM in response to Dino1956

OK, just to recap (although I think you have now done this) to migrate you need to open the iPhoto library in photos (by holding down ⌥ while launching the app) then select it as system library in preferences.

If the photos still aren't syncing as they should, make sure you have allowed enough time for things to sync, if not try disabling photo stream, restarting your devices and re-enabling again. If this doesn't help you might want to try the following...

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” again.

6. Start Photos.

Dino1956 Author

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Jul 31, 2015 7:24 AM in response to Winston Churchill

I am allowing hours for it to synch. It's just not syncnhing.

Just followed your instructions to the "T".

I got one more photo in photo stream. A picture I took with my iPhone yesterday.

Then I went and took 2 more pictures with my iPhone & they did not synch to Photo's My Photostream.

I'm at the end of my top. This is a week old clean install of Yosemite.

Jul 31, 2015 8:33 AM in response to Dino1956

Something may have gone wrong with the install of Yosemite or perhaps something you did with the way things were migrated. You may wish to try a new user account on your Mac as well.

Dino1956 Author

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Jul 31, 2015 9:21 AM in response to Winston Churchill

Yea maybe.

Question: If I have the Photos App on my Macbook Pro also, can I have a different Library then my iMac?

And will each others My Photostream interfere with the others?

Photos App On Mac - My Photostream Not Updating