iCloud Photos can not select all photos

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iCloud Photos can not select all photos

Ok this has happened twice now with iCloud photos. When your iCloud account is full because your iPhone has been updating all your photos to iCloud, there is no way to select all your photos in iCloud photos to either download them to your iMac and free up space on your iCloud account.

Before anyone says it's easy all you do is use the shift key or some other method I have read on line in forums you better go check if it actually still works. The shift key selection method no longer works and nothing else does either. I don't want some hack method to do something that was so simple to do in the past.

Apple then tries to up sell you to buy more storage. This is entrapment and i will not put up with this behavour from a company that could offer all its users more free storage.

So here is my solution - Google drive or Microsofts One drive. Both these give you 15GB for free.

"How do you like them apples"

So it's goodbye from me Apple and hello Google.

paulnothappyapple

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Posted on Mar 29, 2018 6:24 PM

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Answer 1

zinacef

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Mar 29, 2018 7:04 PM in response to paulnothappyapple

From the Photos app in the dock, (on my MacBook Pro), I am able to select all by using the Command and A buttons. From iCloud.com (using Safari), within the Photos app, I am able to press Command and select the photos I wish to select. I little trickier but still doable.

Ever ask yourself why those companies offer you "free" storage? Follow the money....

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Answer 2

zinacef

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Mar 29, 2018 8:18 PM in response to paulnothappyapple

I assumed you might've had 60 GB of free space on your Mac to spare though I could be entirely wrong about that assumption, if you did, you could've chosen the Download Originals To This Mac as an alternative.

Sorry I could've be of more help. 😟

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Answer 3

Mar 29, 2018 7:23 PM in response to zinacef

You have solved nothing here. Look at the problem. I have over 1000 photos in iCloud Photo. Pressing Command and selecting over 1000 photos is plain dumb.

As you state below -

'From the Photos app in the dock, (on my MacBook Pro), I am able to select all by using the Command and A buttons.'

I'm not in the Photos app in the dock. IM IN ICLOUD PHOTOS - READ IT PROPERLY.

Follow the money you say............look at how much money Apple has. They could offer more free storage to their loyal customers for buying their products. I am surrounded by Apple products in my house. No Microsoft or other lesser brands. So follow my money as I direct some now away from Apple.

Apple is loosing it and your still drinking the Apple Kool-Aid.

This Apple fan boy is done and very disappointed now.

paulnothappyapple

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zinacef

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Mar 29, 2018 7:29 PM in response to paulnothappyapple

paulnothappyapple wrote:

You have solved nothing here. Look at the problem. I have over 1000 photos in iCloud Photo. Pressing Command and selecting over 1000 photos is plain dumb.

I did mention it was a bit trickier or more like onerous going via iCloud.com.

paulnothappyapple wrote:

As you state below -

'From the Photos app in the dock, (on my MacBook Pro), I am able to select all by using the Command and A buttons.'

I'm not in the Photos app in the dock. IM IN ICLOUD PHOTOS - READ IT PROPERLY.

If you're using iCloud photos, then you should already know that the Photos app (in the dock on the Mac) is the same place you'll find your iCloud photos, you know that right? 😁

paulnothappyapple wrote:

Follow the money you say............look at how much money Apple has. They could offer more free storage to their loyal customers for buying their products. I am surrounded by Apple products in my house. No Microsoft or other lesser brands. So follow my money as I direct some now away from Apple.

Apple is loosing it and your still drinking the Apple Kool-Aid.

This Apple fan boy is done and very disappointed now.

paulnothappyapple

That is certainly your prerogative and choice. My suggestion of following the money implies that if something is being offered for free, then think carefully and follow cautiously, as there's no such thing as a free lunch. As someone mentioned in a similar post -- "if you're not paying for the product, then you're the product" (iCloud Storage... Scam?).

Good luck.

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Answer 5

Mar 29, 2018 8:04 PM in response to zinacef

I am a photographer and I do not want a lower resolution stored on my Mac. I need to work with these photos on a daily basis.

In the time its taken here with this chat I have manually selected all the photos in iCloud (because you simple can't do this anymore) downloaded them to my iMac. Deleted the all iCloud photos and turned off my iPhone photos backup to iCloud. Never to be turned on again.

I do appreciate all your help here but we are still not solving the issue. The issue is in iCloud using Safari you can not select all your photos easily. In this day and age of web development I would think Apple could figure this out. Obviously not!

I repeat -

paulnothappyapple

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Answer 6

Mar 29, 2018 7:48 PM in response to zinacef

Yes of course I have Photos app but I do not see my iCloud photos. As you say -

'If you're using iCloud photos, then you should already know that the Photos app (in the dock on the Mac) is the same place you'll find your iCloud photos, you know that right?'

In Photos preferences I do not have iCloud Photo Library selected and I understand that is why I do not see my iCloud photos. But I do not have that selected because I have over 60GB in photos on my iMac and as stated by the iCloud Photo Library preference setting -

'Automatically upload and store your entire library in iCloud to access.........'

So 60GB of photos go up to iCloud, when we have only 5GB free.

How does that work out?

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Answer 7

zinacef

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Mar 29, 2018 7:54 PM in response to paulnothappyapple

That image points to what you'll see from System Preferences > iCloud > Photos > Options; however, open the Photos app (in the dock), then go to Photos (top menu/top of the screen) > Preferences > iCloud > choose Optimize Mac Storage which will store a lower resolution on the Mac whilst keeping the originals in iCloud.

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