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Q: Understanding Photos Memories & iCloud

Hi,

 

I have some questions concerning the Apple Photos App. I hope you can help me as I didnt find the answer online yet. I have imported about 10.000 photos into the app - my iPhone / iPad has synced about 2000 fotos yet.

 

1) While my iPhone already shows several memories (after 5 days of using), I get only 2 memories on my mac. Also on the phone, when opening one memory, it suggests other similar memories. I don't see anything like this on my mac? Any idea about that?

 

2) Inside a memory, you see the summary of the "best" photos. Even if this works quite good, its far from perfect. Therefor I would like to select the pictures, which should appear in the summary. I did not find that feature anywhere?

 

3) Faces. It seems that Photos skips a lot of pictures with people in it, whithout recognizing any face? Anyone the same problem?

 

4) I am using the iCloud library, which will have about 110 GB if uploaded. Do you know, if the Mac library is syncing both ways, while uploading? Or does it sync the download, if the upload is stopped? The reason for this question is, that Photos on Sierra does not get the latest photos from my iPhone - i am wondering if the upload process is the reason for that?

 

 

thanks for responding

best regards

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), iOS 10.0.2

Posted on Sep 28, 2016 3:32 AM

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  • by mission.masterpice,

    mission.masterpice mission.masterpice Sep 28, 2016 3:47 AM in response to mission.masterpice
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    Sep 28, 2016 3:47 AM in response to mission.masterpice

    I just tried to deactivate the iCloud library, and it seems that 1) is heavily affected by the syncing process. After stopping the sync, more memories are appearing. There should be a kind of background process information (like in Final Cut), to better understand what photos is currently doing.

  • by alex.chi85,

    alex.chi85 alex.chi85 Sep 28, 2016 4:05 AM in response to mission.masterpice
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    Sep 28, 2016 4:05 AM in response to mission.masterpice

    1) I think that is a design feature. It makes no sense to analyze every photo it is downloading if it knows that there are 100 GB more. Let them finish the download and then create the memories. It is more efficient.

    3) Yes, not every face is recognized. You can add them manually. I have found that there is a bug when you remove a face that has been recognized (see this discussion Blank thumbnails for people under macOS Sierra)

    4) upload and download processes are indeed misterious!

  • by mission.masterpice,

    mission.masterpice mission.masterpice Sep 28, 2016 4:12 AM in response to alex.chi85
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    Sep 28, 2016 4:12 AM in response to alex.chi85

    1) thats ok for downloading, but I am talking about uploading fotos. So as I understand photos now, it first uploads all my pics (already about another 100GB - that will take a week or so), after that it will check other devices for downloads and then it will start with all the other things, like recognizing memories...

     

    I wanted to stop the upload to let photos check for updates from other devices, but that will not happen. First upload, then download, the work...

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Sep 28, 2016 7:14 AM in response to mission.masterpice
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    Sep 28, 2016 7:14 AM in response to mission.masterpice

    Yes the upload must complete before download occur - and if yu turn ICPL off then the upload starts at zero and everything is uploaded when you turn it on - you can not speed it up by you can greatly slow it down by messing around - if you are going to use ICPL keep your Mac powered and awake and let it complete - it is slow

     

    LN