HT4858 Confused about uploads vs. what gets saved in Photo Stream

According to this article, you can upload 10,000 photos/day to Photo Stream, but apparently (not mentioned in this article) you can only keep 1,000 photos in your photo stream? Is that right? Then what is the point of being able to upload 10,000 per day, if only 1,000 of those will get saved? I'm confused.

You're welcome. Since photo stream is completely free, and doesn't use your iCloud storage plan, Apple has to put some limits on it. It's really desiged to sync photos across your devices temporarily (30 days), giving you time to save the photos you want to keep. If you have a Mac, you can also set iPhoto to automatically save photo stream photos to your iPhoto library for permanent archieval; don't know if there is a similare option on the Windows side.
If you're on vacation, you might want to use an alternative cloud storage option like Dropbox. You could use then use the Dropbox app to upload all the photos you want, provided you purchase sufficient storage, and they would be kept permanently until removed.

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I have Mac OS X 10.7.4. Why can't I get my iCloud photo stream to work?

I have Mac OS X 10.7.4. Why can't I get my iCloud photo stream to work?

Without explaining what you have tried, it might be hard to answer your question. Providing a little more detail would probably be useful to those that want to help you.

Can someone explain the icloud to me please? Where are all my old pictures and how can I see them? Photostream only holds 1000 and when I sync my icloud to my mac it only imports what is on my photo stream.

Can someone explain the icloud to me please? Where are all my old pictures and how can I see them? Photostream only holds 1000 and when I sync my icloud to my mac it only imports what is on my photo stream.

When you enable photo stream on your Mac, in imports photos currently in your photo stream. However, photo stream only keeps photos for 30 days, even though up to 1000 photos will remain on your device until you delete them. When you enable photo stream on your Mac, you will only receive photos added in the last 30 days, as the others are no longer in your photo stream.
If you want to get all your old photos on your Mac, save them to your camera roll (if they aren't already there) by opening your photo stream album, tapping Edit, tap the photos, tap Share, tap Save to Camera Roll. Once they are in your camera roll, import them to your Mac as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083.
Another option would be to create a shared photo stream containing the older photos and invite yourself (as explained here: http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mmc0cd7e99). Then check Shared Photo Streams in iPhoto>Preferences>Photo Stream and you will see this shared photo stream on your Mac.

How do I get my entire photo stream to my new iPad. I use my ICloud and some of them showed up but most if them did not. I am trying to sync the photos from my phone to an iPad 1 and iPad mini.

How do I get my entire photo stream to my new iPad. I use my ICloud and some of them showed up but most if them did not. I am trying to sync the photos from my phone to an iPad 1 and iPad mini.

Photostream in the cloud only keeps photos from the last 30 days (subject to a 1,000 photo limit). When photostream syncs the photos to your device they will stay there until deleted, which means you may well have more photos in your photostream album on your device than there are in photostream in the cloud.
The consequence of this is that if you turn photostream off and on again on your device (or enable it for the first time), it will only be populated with photos from the last 30 days, which may not be all the photos that were previously in the photostream album on that device.

HT5622 I tried to send a photo on my phone in a chat message. The photo locked up. I can't get back to photo stream. How do I restart phone or solve issue otherwise.

I tried to send a photo on my phone in a chat message. The photo locked up. I can't get back to photo stream. How do I restart phone or solve issue otherwise.

More than likely you can get the phone back by doing a reset. Hold the sleep/wake and home buttons together until you see the Apple logo and then release. The phone will reboot.

I have much fewer pics on my pc photo stream than my ipad and iphone. how can i get my pc photo stream to show all my pics?

I have much fewer pics on my pc photo stream than my ipad and iphone. how can i get my pc photo stream to show all my pics?

This is all just a partial answer since details will depend upon how you want to do it.
Post by Zevoneer: iPod media recovery options - https://discussions.apple.com/message/11624224 - this is an older post and many of the links are also for old posts, so bear this in mind when reading them.
Commercial software utility for transferring songs from i-device to Mac - http://www.fadingred.com/senuti/
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848 - just media purchased from iTunes Store
You'll need to get it all onto one iTunes collection on your Mac Pro, then sync the devices to that. iTunes only lets you transfer purchases from a device, otherwise you have to use third party software.
I guess you could also look into getting iTunes Match.

I have photo stream on and took photos recently and cant find them on my computer. I tried restarting the computer but still nothing. How do I get them on photo stream?

I have photo stream on and took photos recently and cant find them on my computer. I tried restarting the computer but still nothing. How do I get them on photo stream?

Try the following on your MBP:
Disable Photo Stream in the System/iCloud preference pane
and in iPhoto's Photo Share preference pane.
Reboot and reenable both respectively. That should jump start Photo Stream.
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After updating to iCloud i can't get my pre photo stream iphone 3GS pics into iPhoto

Hi,
After updating to iCloud i can't get my pre photo stream iphone 3GS pics into iPhoto.
My iphone 3GS does not show up in iphoto , aperture, or image capture.
Any image taken since I turned on photstream show up in iphoto correctly.
How can I get the pre-photstream images into iphoto?
thanks in advance
c

Try restart the Phone.
Regards
TD

How do I get back my photo stream pictures which I accidently deleted

how do I get back my photo stream pictures which I accidently deleted? I cant remember whether I have back up or not.

If they aren't in Photos>Photo Stream, then they are deleted and cannot be recovered. Try restoring from a recent backup that has those photos.

Confused about Bandwidth Profiler - what's it telling me?

Hi All,
I'm confused about the bandwidth profiler. I have two
different SWF
files, both are profiled for 56K modem. One file is 253K, 150
x 260 px,
599 frames @ 10fr/sec showing a preload of 96 frames (9.6 s),
frame 1 is
45K. The other is 197K, 800 x 150 px, 1009 frames @ 12fr/sec
showing a
preload of 484 frames (40.3 s), frame 1 is 189K. Why does the
preload
for the smaller file take 40.3 sec. while the larger file is
only 9.6
sec.? And what does preload mean? It appears to indicate how
long it
will take to download frame 1, is that correct? Why is the
Frame 1 size
so different between the two? And why does the smaller file
size have a
much larger frame 1 size. I just don't see why a smaller file
should
take longer to load than a larger file.
Any help would be appreciated.

preloaders preload all frames - usually a percentage -
unfortunately most developers make you wait
until 100% of the movie (all frames/content) is loaded when,
if built correctly, only a much smaller
percentage needs to be loaded before playing. Sounds like one
of your movies has embedded fonts or
objects set for export on frame 1 (like components) and they
all have to loaded first (before frame
1 actually) because flash doesn't know where in your movie
they are located.
Chris Georgenes / mudbubble.com / keyframer.com / Adobe
Community Expert
Brett wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm confused about the bandwidth profiler. I have two
different SWF
> files, both are profiled for 56K modem. One file is
253K, 150 x 260 px,
> 599 frames @ 10fr/sec showing a preload of 96 frames
(9.6 s), frame 1 is
> 45K. The other is 197K, 800 x 150 px, 1009 frames @
12fr/sec showing a
> preload of 484 frames (40.3 s), frame 1 is 189K. Why
does the preload
> for the smaller file take 40.3 sec. while the larger
file is only 9.6
> sec.? And what does preload mean? It appears to indicate
how long it
> will take to download frame 1, is that correct? Why is
the Frame 1 size
> so different between the two? And why does the smaller
file size have a
> much larger frame 1 size. I just don't see why a smaller
file should
> take longer to load than a larger file.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

TS4036 How do I get photo albums to upload to new phone, only the photo stream is crossing over?

I have an iphone that has over 3000 photos on it. I bought a new iphone and want to get the pictures from all my albulms on the old phone to this new phone. All my pictures were wiped out of my computer and cannot restore to new iphone. I am relying on icloud and itunes but have not been able to get them to upload all albums, just the photo stream. I do not want to lose all my pictures.

If you want to transfer all your data and settings from your old phone to your new one, follow this guide: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2109. If you only want to transfer photos, photos from the camera roll can be imported to your computer using usb: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083. You can save your photo stream photos to your camera roll so they can also be imported this way by opening your my photo stream album, tap Edit, tap all the photos, tap Share, tap Save to Camera Roll.
If you need to transfer photos in the photo library album, you'll have to use an app like PhotoSync. This will transfer photos from any album on your phone to your computer over wifi. With that many photos, it's probably the easiest way to go for all your photos.

HT6378 What happened to my photo stream photos?

Only my photos from the camera roll saved to 'all photos.' I lost over 700 photos that were in my photo stream. What happened to them?

Hello 75river,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
If you are not seeing the option for My Photo Stream on your iPad, then I'd like you to please ensure your iCloud settings are configured correctly. Go to Settings > iCloud and tap on Photos. There is the option to enable or disable Photo Stream. Another reason why the My Photo Stream album could be missing is that you have enabled the iCloud Photo Library.
iCloud: Set up My Photo Stream
Get help finding your Photos in iOS 8 or later - Apple Support
Take care,
Alex H.

Why are there duplicate pictures on camera roll but none saving to photo stream?

My wife and I share an itunes account and when iCloud came out all her pictures were showing up on my photo stream (she does a lot of screen caps of cute animal pics to send to her friends) so to stop that I set her up with her own iCloud account. Now when she takes a picture, seconds after she takes it, a duplicate copy appears right beside it, but none ever go to her photo stream folder. What gives? At first I thought maybe she had HDR on, but it's not. Then I thought maybe I didn't have photostream on correctly but looking at it it all looks fine. It's running the latest version of iOS5. Is anyone else having a similar problem?

If your device has stopped adding photos to photo stream, save any photo stream photos that you want to keep on your device to the camera roll, then turn photo stream off (which will delete the photo stream photos from your device) and back on. That may get photo stream to function properly again.

HT201077 How do I get my shared photo streams from my ipad to my iPhone?

How do I get my photo streams from my ipad to sync to my iphone?

Your iPhone must also be signed into the same iCloud account as the iPad. Then look in Settings/iCloud/Photo Stream and ensure both My Photo Stream and Shared Photo Streams are turned on.

HT201317 I only have 300 photos saved on Photo Stream but all of a sudden all my photos from before March 2013 have been removed. Where did they go?

And how do I get them back? (If I can at all.)

If you're running a Mac and iPhoto that meets the requirements for iCloud and Photo Stream you can set iPhoto to automatically import all photo stream pics into the iPhoto LIbrary by setting the preferences as shown below:
The requirements for- iCloud and Photo Stream are laid out in these Apple doucments:
iCloud: System requirements
iCloud: Photo Stream FAQ
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