HT201386 iCloud photos and iPhoto on iMac

I want to use iCloud photos and sync my iMac iPhoto, with the albums etc. I tried creating an album on iPhone 6 which appears in iCloud photos but doesn't allow me to put photos into it.
Is it too soon as its only in beta
Any other ideas of how to get iPhoto albums into iCloud photo beta?

Hi Swandy.  I also had this problem.  I did two things which cured it - not sure if both are needed. Firstly, I created a new test file in Pages and saved it to my iCloud Drive. Then I quit all running programs and shut down my iMac.  Once I re-started, iCloud Drive was accessible through the Finder Sidebar and showed all my iCloud files. I was then able to move by dragging and delete files. If (like me) you get 'unable to move' messages just open the file and resolve by clicking which version you want to keep. Hope that helps. Peter.

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