Q: Photos duplicating to Cloud on new iMac
I have just bought a new top of the range iMac 21.5 Retina. I used Migration Assistant to transfer document and Photos from my old mac mini to my new iMac. I went into Photos on the new iMac and turned on iCloud Photo Library. Photos on my new iMac now says it is uploading 8,229 items (3.07 GB of 24.61 GB). I am concerned that Photos is effectively duplicating all the Photos I already have in iCloud. At my current upload speeds I will probably have to wait a day or two for the upload to finish. Worse, if the duplicated photos get to iCloud they will then download onto all my other machines - the original mac mini, my iPad and iPhone. Can anyone help me?
Is Photos duplicating my Photos in the Cloud? If so how do I stop it? How do I remove the duplicates from iCloud.
Should I delete the Photos library on my new iMac and start with an empty one and let it fill down from iCloud?
Why did Migration Assistant do this - where did I go wrong?
Posted on Oct 22, 2015 7:59 AM
Just in case I ever need to do this again ... would it have been better NOT to use migration assistant for my Photos, but just turned on iCloud sharing for a new empty photo library on my new iMac and that way let iCloud download to my iMac?
It is what I have done on my new Mac. Create a new, empty library and let it download from iCloud Photo library. This way you will download all photos and albums from iCloud, and the libraries will be in sync from start. But all the faces you labelled will be missing, and your books and other projects. DOn't do it, if you labelled a lot of faces and have books to save.
After three month I have still not restored all the missing faces labels. I hope the next version of photos will allow to sync the faces labels as well in icloud.
Posted on Oct 23, 2015 12:22 PM
