Can photo stream folders be on a network drive?

Just trying to understand why I cannot select the photo stream folders I created on a networked external hard drive.

local folder on Windows, iPhoto main library on Mac and Camera Roll in iOS only.

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Need Camera Roll and Photo Stream folders back

I don't understand why apple removed Cameral Roll and Photo Stream folders in Photo App. I used to move all photos in Camera Roll to my computer periodically. and I still can access last 1000 photos from Photo Stream folder if I want to access them, maybe I would upload some photos from Photo Stream folder to some apps like FB, Instagram etc.
But after I updated to iOS 8, app can never access that Photo Stream folder now, even it's still there and occupied lots of space ( if you go to usage menu you can see that).
How do I access photos in Photo Stream folder now??? I want it back. it's so inconvenience for me. anyone else would agree this??
Have done a lot of google, but nothing can help this.

This is the way Photo Stream has always worked:
Does using My Photo Stream substitute for using iCloud Backup or iTunes to back up the photos in my Camera Roll?
No. Photos in My Photo Stream are saved on the iCloud server for 30 days. To save or back up these photos, you must copy them from My Photo Stream to your Camera Roll on your iOS device. You can then back up your Camera Roll using iCloud or iTunes.
How long are My Photo Stream photos stored in iCloud?
The photos you upload to My Photo Stream are stored in iCloud for 30 days to give your devices plenty of time to connect and download them.
How many photos are stored in My Photo Stream on my devices and computers?
iCloud pushes all your photos to the My Photo Stream album on your devices and computers, and manages them efficiently, so you don’t run out of storage space.
Your iOS devices keep a rolling collection of your last 1000 photos in the My Photo Stream album. From there, you can browse your recent photos or move the ones you like to your Camera Roll or another album to keep them on your device forever.
Because your Mac and PC have more storage than your iOS devices, you can choose to download all of your My Photo Stream photos automatically.
In iPhoto or Aperture preferences on your Mac, select Photos (or Photo Stream) > My Photo Stream > Automatic Import. All of your photo stream photos will import into your Events, Projects, Photos, Faces, and Places folders in iPhoto or Aperture.
On your PC with My Photo Stream on in the Control Panel, all of your photos will import into C:\\Users\<user name>\Pictures\iCloud Photos\My Photo Stream If you're using iCloud Control Panel 2.1 to 2.1.3, the path is C:\\Users\<user name>\Pictures\Photo Stream\My Photo Stream
Due to storage limitations, your Apple TV might display only your most recent photos.
Here is the entire Support Article:
iCloud: My Photo Stream FAQ
Cheers,
GB

Can Photo Stream be a sort of a backup?

Can iCloud's Photo Stream feature serve as a sort of backup of the photos I take on my iPhone?
For example, I take 50 photos on my iPhone and they get uploaded to Photo Stream. Then within 30 days I turn my PC on and they get downloaded to the PC. Will they stay on my PC forever?
In other words, can Photo Stream kind of replace iCloud's Camera Roll backup for photos? Thanks.

For example, I take 50 photos on my iPhone and they get uploaded to Photo Stream. Then within 30 days I turn my PC on and they get downloaded to the PC. Will they stay on my PC forever?
Yes you could do that, but if ever you forget or something stops you, you may well lose some photos. Personally I'd keep the back up running.

If I put pictures on my IMac. Can photo stream send them to my other devices.

If I put pictures on my iMac can photo stream send them to my other devices?

Of course. However, note that you need iPhoto '11 or Aperture 3 on your iMac, and that the other devices must be an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with iCloud, another Mac with iPhoto '11 or Aperture 3 and OS X 10.7.2 or later, or a PC with iCloud Control Panel.
The first thing you have to do is to upload your photos to Photo Stream, but first you need to enable Photo Stream > http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2710
Then, to add photos to Photo Stream, open iPhoto and drag the photos you want to "iCloud" or "Photo Stream" in the iPhoto or Aperture sidebar. This will make that your photos appear on other devices, so just go to them and copy them to the internal memory, because Photo Stream deletes your photos after 30 days. If you have got an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, you can find your photos in the Photos application, and in a PC, you can find them in My Pictures folder.
For any question you have > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

How do you remove photo stream folders

i have 3 photo stream folders on my IPHONE 4, how do i remove 2 of them?

There is no way to do so.
PhotoStream is temporary - a maximum of 1,000 photos and 30 days.

Photo Stream Folders

I think I already know the answer since I'm not able to get it to work but just wanted to confirm that Photo Stream will only sync individual files and not folders, correct? I have set my sync folder to My Pictures on my PC but when I import my photos, I have them imported into a sub-folder of My Pictures hoping they would appear on my iPad as an album under the Photo Stream tab but no luck.
I haven't found anyone else commenting on this so it leads me to believe that I'm doing something wrong or I'm the only person who categorizes their photos in their PC. That, or it's common knowledge that it doesn't support folders/albums and I missed the memo.
Any help or confirmation would be appreciated!

Not sure if I quite understand your problem since I'm not using Photostream on a PC (using Mac). However, just for your information... everything in the Photostream is only VIEWABLE on any iOS device or PC that has iCloud enabled. To keep the photo (and not just view it) you have to move it out of Photostream and into an album (iPhoto) or folder (I'm guessing for PCs). The Photostream is just that - a stream. On your iPhone or iPad your last 1000 photos will be there for you to view. There is no limit to the number of photos in the Photostream on your PC because of the much larger storage capacity.
If a photo has lived in the stream for more than 30 days it gets deleted. In order to make it a permanent part of your PC or iOS device you have to move it out of the stream - see above. From there you can move it wherever.
Does that help?
Thanks,
JWB

2 Photo Stream Folders on iPhone - Why do I have 2 photo stream folders on my iPhone? One is accurate and the other is empty. How do I delete the empty one? The empty folder doesn't allow my photos to be synced with my ipad2.

I tried disabling the iCloud on my iPhone and ipad2 and re-enabling in hopes elimnating the extra empty folder on my iphone. Despite disabling the iCloud on my iPhone, the empty Photo Stream folder remained on my iPhone and the other Photo Stream folder with my pictures was removed. I think because of this empty folder, my iPad isn't being prayed with my photos. Any ideas? Has this happened to anyone else?

You can uncheck multiple songs by selecting all the songs you want to uncheck, then right-click and choose "uncheck selection". Also, make sure that you have checked "Sync only checked songs and videos" on the Summary tab of your iTunes sync settings or the sync process will ignore your selections.
You can remove all the photos from your camera roll using Preview on your Mac. Connect your phone to your Mac, open Preview, go to File>Import from iPhone. When your photos appear in Preview, select the photos you want to delete, then click on the icon at the bottom showing the red circle with the diagonal line through it (see image below), then click Delete.
To remove photos from the Photo Stream album on your phone you'll have to either reset Photo Stream (deleting all the photos from iCloud) or turn off Photo Stream on your phone.

Can't unlock folders on my External Hard drive.....

When i try to delete or add stuff to certain folders on my external hard drive I am unable to.
Under folder info it says "you can only read" and when I try to uncheck the locked button it doesn't change.
I've been looking through the forums but I cant find any easy, understandable way to fix this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Whether it can fixed or not depends on how the drive is formatted. If it is FAT32 you may be out of luck, but if it is in a standard Mac format you should be able to fix it. Take a look at this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5908325
For FAT32 I have been unable to find any information at all on either the cause or a solution.
Francine
Francine
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MacBook Pro can't connect to Time Capsule or network drives

I have a MacBook Pro (2.2 GHz, Intel i7, 4 GB RAM) and for some reason it can not connect to either the Time Capsule or any network drives. We were recently out of town on vacation and before the vacation, everything worked fine. Now, that we are back, the MacBook will connect to the wireless network and can access the internet, etc but it can not access either the Time Capsule or any drives I have setup as shared that's connected to the iMac. I go to the Network and it doesn't show anything as available to connect to.
I have restarted both the MacBook and the iMac and even turned off and back on file sharing on the iMac. I have even restarted the Time Capsule but nothing is working. Both the MacBook Pro and iMac are running Lion (10.7.2). All have the latest updates, etc. Also the Time Capsule has all of the latest firmware updates. Again, this was working fine last week. Now this week, nothing.
Can someone please help? I use the Time Capsule for backups and the network drive for iTunes. Without those, the MacBook Pro is missing a lot of functionality.
Bronson

It might help to reset the connection settings on your Mac using these steps one at a time until the problem is resolved, recognizing that, depending on your problem, not all of these steps will make sense:
1) Use the AirPort menu bar item to turn AirPort off, then on again.
2) Try to select your Wi-Fi network from the AirPort menu.
3) In the Network panel of System Preferences delete the AirPort item from the left column, then add it back.
4) In the same panel as (3), define a new location and see if you can make that work.
5) In the same panel, select the AirPort connection item, click the "Advanced" button, select the "TCP/IP" tab, then click "Renew DHCP Lease".
6) In the folder /Library/Preferences ( _not_ <yourhomefolder>/Library/Preferences), move the folder SystemConfiguration onto the Desktop, then restart your computer. See if you can now make your AirPort connection work.
These steps may not help, but they'll only take a couple of minutes to try. Before you try these, if you have any special network settings on your Mac for things like DSL credentials, note all your network settings, because the latter steps will destroy them. If you got all the way to the last step, if things don't work any worse than before, you can trash the saved SystemConfiguration folder.

Can I use time capsule as a network drive?

I want to use the HD in my time capsule as a network drive in addition to backing up my macbook pro and imac desktop. I also have a couple of PCs anda yamaha tuner/amp on the network. Can this be done?

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Can't delete a PDF on a network drive when someone has it open???

I am trying to like PDFs and the benefit they provide, but someone please explain to me why a
file that is meant to be a read-only file, cannot be deleted if someone has it open. Everyone
has read-only access to this drive where the PDF resides, yet when someone opens it, I cannot delete the file. Why
is this, and is there a workaround? Or at the very least, the ability to see WHO has it open? I am working with Excel files, and
it seems much easier to leave it in Excel for this very reason. At least if someone tries to open it, it forces them to open it in read-only
, allowing me the ability to replace that file, rename it, delete it, whatever. Seems like there has to be a fix. If I publish a PDF to a network drive, and realize there is a mistake, and 50 people have now opened it, are you telling me there is nothing I can do?! Doesn't make any sense. Please help!

Read-only only means they can't save any changes.
Excel probably creates a local copy of the file and allows the users on work
on that, while the real file remains unlocked.
Anyway, I'm not an Acrobat engineer so all of this is just guesswork.
If you want, you can ask Adobe to change this behavior here:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

Can't use time machine with a network drive anymore

I am not able to use my network drive any longer now that I loaded Lion OS. Does anyone have have a work around. I tried the sharing of a folder trick that I had for snow lepard. I have a HP media smart server and 2TB of storage available it seems like a big waste not to be able to backup to a safe place.
Al

Here is one from Pondini, who was the foremost Time Machine expert in the world.
http://pondini.org/TM/Airport.html
And another from Apple. Info near the bottom.
AirPort base stations: About USB disks
And another miscellaneous from Apple:
AirPort base stations: Time Machine hard drive compatibility

HT201317 My photos are not uploading manually from my desktop to my photo stream folders on my iphone ... How do I fix this ?

Can anyone walk me thru how to fix or get the photos in my uploads folders for icloud to push out to my iphone?

You currently have 2 separate accounts - Apple doesn't allow you to alter the IDs or merge them currently. If you share purchased music with your family then multiple accounts may make sense. You can have a separate ID for yourself that is associated with your devices. Then you have the "family account" that you make purchases on. In your specific case the @me.com ID would be your account and the @hotmail.com would be the iTunes "family account". The only thing you need to do is to sign into iTunes on your iphone with the @hotmail.com ID. Future purchases will then be linked to your family account and will be transfered to your Dell when you sync. If you purchased free apps on your iPhone under the other account, I would simply delete them and redownload under the @hotmail.com ID. If you made signifcant purchases under the new account, then you can open iTunes on your Dell, sign in with the @me.com account, and authorize that computer. The new purchases will transfer to the Dell, but it makes your iTunes library a little messier...especially when you start buying new computers.
Option 2 is to restore the iPhone and set it up with the old @hotmail account. This is useful if you do not have a family and don't need the hassle of 2 IDs. I don't know what will happen when you try to set up the phone with a new ID however, since the sim card is already associated with an account. I would visit an Apple store or Verizon to do this so you don't run into any problems activating the phone.
My final caveat is I have not started using iCloud yet so I don't know all the ramifications of having multiple IDs. I'm sure you can search the forums some more to dig up those answers. Good Luck.

Import problem. LR4 Can't see folders on my external hard drive.

When I go to import to select the device from which to import in, it doesn't show me the folders in that device. So I click show subfolders and then it shows me my thousands of photos
I want to be able to select the folders to look at from my External Hard drive but there is no drop down menu.
I know it's there because I've used it before.
I'm not sure if I've posted my screen shot or not.
I've fixed the problem but I don't know why it keeps happening so I want to find out what I'm doing.
file://localhost/Users/granttara/Desktop/Screen%20Shot%202013-01-19%20at%2012.29.10%20PM.p ng
In the screen shot you can see that my External Hard IS showing the folders it contains but I have no idea how I got that function back when it goes.
I've clicked on arrows and right clicked on things and then 'boom' it's working again.
Any help so I know what to do in the future would be great.
Thanks.

Now that I see the screenshot I understand what you mean: The NO NAME is being interpreted as a camera memory card (a device) rather than a removable hard-drive, so when you import images from a CF card it doesn’t show all the subfolders, it just shows the pictures, and won’t let you do an Add or Movie import, just the two Copy variations.
Try this:
1)   Click on the up-down arrow to the right of NONAME
2)   Select Other Source…
3)   Navigate to a subfolder on NO NAME and click Select or Ok or whatever it says and it’ll list that subfolder. The icon at the top left should change from a straight-on black device icon to a rotated, lighter removable drive icon.
4)   Press F5 to refresh the Files icons and your NO NAME device should show up as a drive-letter or removable drive down in the lower area, in addition to being a Device above.   Once it is in the lower Files area you should have the clickable arrows to go into subfolders.

Can't copy large files to a network drive :(

hi,
I am using a powermac G5 (Dual 2 GHz, OS 10.4.7). I am connected to a network which has windows based server i believe. If I try to copy files that are sized over 2 GB to the storage drive, it gives me an error message saying "Sorry, the operation could not be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -1309)"
But we have two other Mac's (an imac and a mac pro both using OS 10.4.7). I can copy 4-5 GB files without any trouble.
I need some help... is this problem fixable?? if the other macs are able to copy... what am i doing wrong?
please help... thank you in advance.

Error 1309 is a file bounds error. No real news there... just wanted to clarify.
also, HFS errors seem to run... -1300 to -1305.
Are the working & not working ones connected by the same protocol, (smb, NFS, or...)?
There's also an MS error -1309 with Office 2003, Excell, Word, etc., but may or may not have anything to do with this...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830422

Can photo stream folders be on a network drive?

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