I have photos on my iMac in my photo stream that i wish to keep.
I have copied them into a new album but when it comes to clearing out my photo stream the pictures are removed from my new album. What am i doing wrong?
iMac with Retina 5K display, iOS 10.3.3
Photo Stream is a syncing service and holds images on a temporary basis (up to 1,000 images for 30 days unless manually deleted) but they are stored permanently in Photos/All Photos. My understanding is that there's no way images should disappear from an album if you delete them from Photo Stream, either on the iMac or another device.
Look in the top level 'Photos' and see if they are there.
Do you have iCloud Photo Library turned on by any chance? If you do, then you really are syncing your photos and videos to your iCloud storage. MyPhotoStream doesn't count against your iCloud storage. I've found that iCloud Photo Library works very well and you can get a pretty decent amount of iCloud storage space for a few dollars a month. It really is worth it, especially if you have multiple devices.
It is not used by MyPhotStream - what are your iCloud settings and status on the Phone and on the Mac? The space can be used by many things including iCloud Photo Library and iCloud Drive and IOS backups and other things - MPS does not use iCloud storage
LN
I cannot find anything other than photos on the iMac and a very small amount of documents and a large amount of photos on the ipro, I will have to check the settings on the wifes phone when she comes home
Is it possible that you have iCloud Photo Library turned on, on the iMac side of things? You can certainly delete photos from iCloud and leave them on your iOS device and iMac, but before you do so you really need to make sure that iCloud Photo Library isn't turned on anywhere or it'll remove them from those devices as well. Just double check the devices you want to make sure you want to keep the photos on. If iCloud Photo Library is turned off everywhere, just go to iCloud.com in Safari, log on to your account, click on Photos, select the photos you want to delete and click on the trashcan in the top right. This should remove the photos just from your iCloud account. It doesn't get rid of them right away, it puts them into "Recently Deleted", so you can go in there and click on "Delete All". That should do the trick.
add them to the albums from moments not from MyPhotoStream
And there is no reason for you to clear out MyPhotoStream
LN
Thanks Larry
I thought i had to do this to free up space from my icloud storage
How do i clear the storage section then ?
Thanks
Just read that you are using iCloud which alters things. I don't so my advice is probably not accurate.
Thanks again
my iCloud storage on my iPhone and ipro states that it has 4.45 gb of 5 gb space used by photos so where are those photos on my device as this is the space i wish to free up
Photo Stream is a syncing service
That is not correct - MyPhotoStream does not sync between devices - it is a one time streaming transfer of new images and no syncing ever takes place
LN
Thanks
I do not have the iCloud library turned on.I only want the iCloud to send pictures from my ipro and iPad to the iMac when we are away from home and then put them into a relative album
Photo stream
