Photos on Yosemite stopped syncing with iCloud photos

Hello Jimmy,

It also happened to me the first times Photos was launched... The issue is related to a problem on one of your devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac, etc) one of your devices failed to upload some content.

Here the solution (depending of the size of your library it may take a while).

1. Go to iCloud.com, then Photos and check if you see all your photos there. If not, import them on your computer and add them here. You need to have iCloud ready with all your photos.

2. When it's done, on all your devices turn off photo library, and delete any content you may have left. On the Mac delete also the Photos library file.

3. When it's done, reactivate Photos on all your devices. It will download the content from iCloud. And may take a while depending of the size and your internet speed.

4. Test it, for example take a photo on your iPhone, wait to see if it appears on your Mac. Edit some photos on your Mac and see if the changes appear on your iPhone.

I hope it will help you to solve the issue.

Do you have the iCloud Photo Library enabled? If not then you are relying on the My Photo Stream to sync the photos from your iPhone to your library, right?

If you don't have the iCloud Photo Library enabled try this fix developed by jmush1:

1 - close Photos.

2 - launch Activity Monitor and search for "Photos Agent".

3 - quit the Photos Agent process.

4 - reboot.

5 - launch Photos and check you My Photo Stream.

Definitely some serious bugs. I may have to endure until next iOS release. I screwed up my album organization trying the first suggestion. Now I have 4500+ photos virtually scattered in iCloud and hundreds more to upload.

Jay Blongz wrote:

Definitely some serious bugs. I may have to endure until next iOS release. I screwed up my album organization trying the first suggestion. Now I have 4500+ photos virtually scattered in iCloud and hundreds more to upload.

Interesting post

You claim bugs but you do not even know what software you have - there is no IOS for a Mac - only OS X - and you are blaming Apple because a fellow user gave advice that did not do what you wanted (a hint for the future - use the advice from the 130,000 point user rather than the advice from an 80 point user)

Photos, of course, has some bugs as does every single piece of software ever created - but it is more bug free than any first release of a major program I have seen - and it dod not "screw up" you organization

If you have questions you should start a new thread and post them - Writing an effective Apple Support Communities question

if you want to post crazy and incorrect things this is not the place - there are lot of places on the web for crazy, incorrect posts

LN

Here are a three possible fixes that worked for others:

Method #1 - posted by user Willis I Am:

Willis I Am

Re: photostream not working on my mac

Sep 9, 2013 2:05 PM (in response to gtbissell)

I do not know if anyone ever runs into this issue anymore, but the Apple Engineers helped me fix this recently.

They had me do the following:

Turn off Photo Stream in your user account:

Quit iPhoto

Goto System Preferences > iCloud > Uncheck Photo Stream.

Close System Preferences

Then deleting the entire ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/ directory.

Open Terminal and type in cd Library

then type open . (open space period)

navigate to Application Support and delete the iLifeAssetManagement folder.

quit terminal

Then turn photo stream back on in their photo library.

open iPhoto and click on Photo stream in the left column.

enable photo stream.

It will take some time to download the cached photos but this resolved my problem of having 0 display and no photos in the "My Photo Stream" area when any of my other devices showed new photo stream photos without any problems.

Method #2 - posted by user hang yong

hang yong

Jun 6, 2015 3:40 PM

Re: Shared albums won't show up on new Photos on Mac

in response to mwbaker210

Guys,

If you are still facing this issue after rebuilding, try this:

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/Applicati on Support/com.apple.cloudphotosd/services

4. Delete com.apple.photo.icloud.myphotostream and com.apple.photo.icloud.sharedstreams folders

5. Enable “My photo Stream” and “iCloud Photo Sharing” again.

6. Start Photos. After a while, the shared photos will start coming.

Method #3 - posted by user jmush1:

jmush1

Jul 29, 2015 8:45 PM

Re: Photostream not updating on Mac Photos

in response to leonfromearth

Helpful

I had this same issue. I fixed this by:

Closing Photos.

Opening Activity Monitor.

Killing the process titled "Photos Agent"

I opened up Photos again, and my Photo Stream immediately updated.