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rwarde00

Q: My photos was converted over from iphotos with El Capitan but now it will not upload my new photos taken on my iphone. I have upgraded all my storage so that is not the issue.

Wondering how to make photos sync with iphone photos.

All my new photos once I converted from iphoto to photos no longer automatically sync from my camera roll to photos.

It has said (uploading 20,543 items 402 MB of 62GB) for 3 days now with no new uploads.

I have forced quit the program and restarted- still nothing. It has not updated since May 19th

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)

Posted on May 25, 2016 5:58 AM

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Q: My photos was converted over from iphotos with El Capitan but now it will not upload my new photos taken on my iphone. I have upgr ... more

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  • by LarryHN,Helpful

    LarryHN LarryHN May 25, 2016 7:32 AM in response to rwarde00
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    Photos for Mac
    May 25, 2016 7:32 AM in response to rwarde00

    what are your iCloud settings on the phone and on the Mac in he system preferences and Photos preferences?

     

    LN

  • by rwarde00,

    rwarde00 rwarde00 May 25, 2016 7:49 AM in response to LarryHN
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    Photos for Mac
    May 25, 2016 7:49 AM in response to LarryHN

    iPhone:

    Icloud-Photos

    Optimize iphoto storage-checked

    Upload to My Photo Stream-on

    Upload Burst Photos-on

    icloud Photo Sharing-on

     

    iPhone:

    Icloud Drive

    iCloud Drive-On

    Show on Home Screen-On

     

    iPhone:

    Photos&Camera

    ICloud Photo Library-On

    Optimize Iphoto Storage-Checked

    Upload to My Photo Stream-On

    Upload Burst Photos-On

    Icloud Photo Sharing-On

    Summarize Photos-On

    Grid-Off

     

    MacBook Pro

    Photos-General

    Checked-Summarize Photos

    Checked-Importing copy items to the photos library

    Unchecked-Metadata

    Unchecked-Reduce Motion

     

    Photos- Icloud

    Checked- ICloud Photo Library- (says uploading 23,133 items)

    Checked-Download Originals to this Mac

    Checked-My Photo Stream

    Checked- Icloud Photo Sharing

     

    Icloud- Photos- options

    Checked- Icloud Photo Library

    Checked- My Photo Stream

    Checked- Icloud Photo Sharing

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN May 25, 2016 8:52 AM in response to rwarde00
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    Photos for Mac
    May 25, 2016 8:52 AM in response to rwarde00

    A few problms

    1 - your Mac is not finished uploading (23,000 to upload - until the upload is complete nothing will download and this will take a while - mine took ten days for 7000 photos/videos - until it is complete keep your Mac awake , powered and on the internet 24/7 and do not mess with the iCLoud settings except to pause it for one day if you are getting poor access for other internet needs and un-pausing it as soon as you can

     

    2 - you do not have iCLoud Photo Library enabled on all devices - once all the uploads are complete all devices using ICPL will stay in sync - the others will not  --  and generally for devices with limited storage you will need to select optimized photos on them

     

    LN