kiwijohnny
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Q: My Just noticed my photos have stopped uploading to iCloud

HELP PLEASE,

 

I have 45k photos and and 2k worth of videos. I noticed today when I fired up iCloud the last two weeks of photos haven't uploaded. I checked my iCloud settings and and the photos in now unchecked. When I select only iCloud library because thats all I require it tells me the amount of photos I have exceeds the available space. Thats not true as iCloud says I have 80gb free. It's as if it wants to grab all my photos and upload them again. In my cloud I already have 44k photos or thereabouts sitting there, I just want photos to continue uploading. Seems the problem has arisen since last upgrade to Sierra. All help will much be appreciated.

 

Thanks all.

Posted on Oct 15, 2016 7:46 PM

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Q: My Just noticed my photos have stopped uploading to iCloud

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  • by zinacef,

    zinacef zinacef Oct 15, 2016 9:51 PM in response to kiwijohnny
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    Oct 15, 2016 9:51 PM in response to kiwijohnny

    Is the 'Optimize Mac Storage' feature turned on in your iCloud Photo Library settings?

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Oct 15, 2016 10:28 PM in response to kiwijohnny
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    Oct 15, 2016 10:28 PM in response to kiwijohnny

    Thats not true as iCloud says I have 80gb free. It's as if it wants to grab all my photos and upload them again.

    That is what will happen, if you turn off iCloud Photo Library and enable it again. Photos will require enough cloud storage to upload all photos in your library in addition to the the photos already in iCloud. That is because Photos has no way to tell, if the Photos already in iCloud are the same you are trying to upload.

    Your 45000 photos and videos will probably need at least 200GB of iCloud storage. My iCloud photo library with 45000 photos has a size of 210GB on the Mac 166GB in iCloud.

    Either remove other items from iCloud Drive to free storage temporarily or sign up for more storage for a month to be able to upload the library. Then you can cancel the additional iCloud storage again.

  • by ChristopheP,

    ChristopheP ChristopheP Oct 21, 2016 2:19 AM in response to léonie
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    Oct 21, 2016 2:19 AM in response to léonie

    I have exactly the same problem as stated by kiwijohnny. I did not change anything myself but following the Sierra upgrade I experienced the same issues. This is not a good Apple experience I must say...