uploading photos to iCloud takes forever help

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uploading photos to iCloud takes forever help

help, i have 10,000 photos, my iCloud has been uploading for a day and only 2,000 photos have been uploaded, is this normal?

kathy

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Aug 31, 2015 6:59 AM

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FoxFifth

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Aug 31, 2015 8:15 AM in response to Kathy Nell

That seems within the realm of reason. Note that with most internet service provider plans the upload speeds offered are substantially slower than the download speeds.

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Csound1

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Aug 31, 2015 8:18 AM in response to Kathy Nell

Expect anywhere between 5 days and 19 days, what you get depends on 2 things, how big is the upload (in GB) and how fast is your upload speed (in mb/s)

If you tell us that I will tell you the minimum time it is going to take.

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Kathy Nell Author

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Sep 3, 2015 7:15 AM in response to Csound1

Thx for the info, i uploaded over 10,000 is slightly less than 4 days. I used my ethernet cable and plugged directly into the router and by passed the wifi.

I do have another question. When I view any of these uploaded photos in my iCloud on my iPhone or iPad do they then download to the device and stay there using up all my storage? I only have a 16 GB iphone and iPhoto is using 3.0 GB. I have 3.0 GB's left.

Kathy

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Kathy Nell Author

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Sep 3, 2015 7:25 AM in response to Csound1

One last question, every time I go to iCloud.com to view photos when I click to view albums it says Photos has stopped responding and an error has occurred and I then click send to Apple or reload. I then get the same response. I have quit Safari, rebooted and updated all my photos to the iCloud.com account. I run all the latest systems on all my devices.

Kathy

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Csound1

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Sep 3, 2015 7:27 AM in response to Kathy Nell

That depends on how the phone is set, if Optimize storage is set it will not use all the memory, if not it may

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Csound1

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Sep 3, 2015 7:28 AM in response to Kathy Nell

And that is not at all normal, I'll get back to you on that.

Please confirm that this is happening on the iCloud website only

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Kathy Nell Author

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Sep 3, 2015 7:32 AM in response to Csound1

Yes it happens on the iCloud.com website when I am on my laptop. When on my iPhone or iPad I am in the iPhoto app. I did set all devices to optimize storage. I do however have upload to My Photo Stream checked on phone and iPad. Did not know if that is correct or not.

Kathy

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Kathy Nell Author

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Sep 3, 2015 7:34 AM in response to Kathy Nell

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Kathy Nell Author

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Sep 3, 2015 7:38 AM in response to Kathy Nell

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