HT4906 iCloud and iPhoto sync

ICloud says I need to have iPhoto 09 or higher. My computer says everything is updated although iPhoto says it is version 8.1.2, preinstalled with OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.8 or earlier. I have gone through the Software Updates by the Apple () menu) as directed and this is when it said no updates are avaialbe. How do I update?

Different iCloud features require different versions. See http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/mac.html
If you are talking about PhotoStream then you must purchase an upgrade to iPhoto '11
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I've just bought an iPhone 5S in the UK, seems like a big mistake. I have turned off sync to icloud from the phone for both my contacts and calendar, as told on itunes. However, iTunes still says they are synced from iCloud and wont sync to PC, Fix ?

I've just bought an iPhone 5S in the UK, seems like a big mistake, but luckily by law we can return goods, which is exactly what is going to happen if I cant get this to work. This is my business phone, not having it functional can cost me money.
I have turned off sync to icloud from the phone for both my contacts and calendar, as told on itunes. However, iTunes still says they are synced from iCloud and wont sync to my PC, why and how do I fix it so that it doesnt go to iCloud for anything ?
The phone currently has no contacts or calendar information installed.
PC is HP Probook 4730s running Windows 7, Professional, version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601.

I'm happy you figured it out and just try to keep in mind that not everyone you talk to at support will give the same advice or have the same knowledge. Just like those who contribute to these forums. Sometimes Google is your best friend.
I agree that Apple could probably make it easier, but as of yet prefer security over freedom. (sound famaliar?)
Anyway, if you choose to do so, you can leave feedback here:
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Aperture 3.1.3 and iPhoto sync problems

Upgraded to Aperture 3.1.3. Then upgraded to Lion. Tried to sync my iPhone and it got as far as photo's and got a -50 Sync error. Went to iTunes and turned off photo sync and the phone syn'd perfectly. Went back to iTunes turned photo sync back on, and got an error again. Went to iTunes turned off sync and checked the option to remove my photo's from the phone. Sync worked fine. Turned the photo sync back on, and it errored out when it was trying to reload the pictures. Turned off the Aperture photo sync and changed it to iPhoto. The next sync it reloaded my 1,500 photos without a hitch.
Bottom line: I explained all I have gone through so you can understand that it is not a corrupt photo library on the phone, and iPhoto sync'd fine, so it certainly appears that Aperture is once again the problem.

I am getting the same "Unknown error (-50)" when trying to sync photos from my Aperture 3 library now.
I did not upgrade to Lion (waiting for a 3rd party driver I need to be updated first for it), but I did update iTunes to 10.4 (80) recently and that is when I noticed the issue.
I haven't had this issue before. It syncs everything else but when iTunes goes from "Analyzing Photos" to "Optimizing Photos" in the sync process it reports that it is unable to sync because of an "unknown error (-50)"
To resolve the problem, I tried the following:
I repaired my Aperture library database (using Option+Command when launching Aperture 3).
Deleted the "iPod Photo Cache" folder inside my Aperture library. It had to resync all my photos again, this time it worked, but the next sync it had the same error again.
Updated my iOS to the latest version.
Did a Repair Disk Permissions on my Mac.
I changed USB cables and ports (using only ports directly on my Mac Pro).
Tried syncing with only iTunes running.
Doing all the above made no difference, I am still getting the error message and it won't sync new photos back to my iPhone 4 now.

Can you backup on icloud and also sync to your computer?

Can you backup an iPhone 4s to icloud and also sync to a computer if you wanted to?

Yes.

Multiple devices -how to sync all to icloud and iphoto then delete from device

Hello,
I have 2 ipads, an iphone and a macbook. I want to be able to take pictures using whichever device and have all the pictures be stored in my iphoto on my macbook. I have purchased plenty of icloud storage but want to make sure that all devices will all sync to the same place and if i were to delete photos on the the individual devices that they would be safely stored in icloud. Also, if this is possible, will they automatically go into iphoto and what settings should i have? I dont want the whole photo collection on each device only pics i take on it and have them all centrally stored (ideally in iphoto on the mac and in icloud).
i have iphone 5 running ios 8, ipad mini running ios 8 and ipad 2 running ios 8. am planning to update to os x yosemite when available and will be using icloud drive on each. i appreciate any help, i have been using icloud for a while but its a mystery to me how it all works and want to try and save memory on my devices but dont want to lose pictures in the process. thanks!!
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Until iCloud photo library is fully launched, and you are running OS X Yosemite with its new photos app, you won't be able to store your photos in iCloud and delete them from your devices. At the present time, when you delete a photo from your device, it is also deleted from iCloud.
You can, however, take photos on your devices and have them automatically stream to iPhoto on your Mac, and saved to your iPhoto events. You will need iPhoto '11 (9.5) on your Mac. Then go to Settings>iCloud>Photos on your iOS devices and make sure My Photo Stream is turned on on your iOS devices (and iCloud Photo Sharing if you want to create shared albums). On your Mac, make sure Photos is checked in System Preferences>iCloud, then launch iPhoto and go to iPhoto>Preferences>iCloud and make sure My Photo Stream is checked as well as Automatic Import (which causes your streamed photos to be saved to your iPhoto Events) as shown in the image below. After that, any photos taken on your iOS devices will automatically be added to your photo stream (when they're connected to wifi with the camera app closed and at least 20% battery power remaining) and will automatically be saved in iPhoto when it's connected to the internet.

Can't sync with iCloud and iphoto

i have an iphone 4, fully updated with ios5 at its newest update whatever that is.
i just backed up my whole iphone to the cloud and then reset the whole phone and restored it from the cloud. so now everythign on my phone is from the cloud. i even bought itunes match.
my one problem is, now i can't sync iphoto with my phone. i usually like to have my iphone have my last 20 events from iphoto, but now that my whole phone is on the cloud, when i connect it to my computer, it starts to sync from itunes instead of icloud, and then changes everything.
i connected my phone to the computer and itunes popped up and it started syncing everything from itunes and replacing everything. so i had to stop it, and restore my whole phone again
it's so complicated. i just want to have my phone sync with the cloud, but i also want iphoto to sync with my phone, but it seems i can only do that through itunes, which i can't sync with itunes if i'm syncing with the icloud

Brad...
now i can't sync iphoto with my phone
You can sync from iPhoto.
Tap Settings > iCloud
Make sure Photo Stream is switched on.
when i connect it to my computer, it starts to sync from itunes instead of icloud, and then changes everything.
Once you have iCloud setup, there's no need to connect your iPhone to a computer and sync media using iTunes. Everything is synced via a W-Fi network.
Apple - iCloud - Learn how to set up iCloud on all your devices
Main support page for iCloud > Apple - Support - iCloud

IPad/iPod, iCloud, and Exchange Syncing

When I first updated my iPod and iPad they synced to iCloud. However I ended up with each of my contacts duplicated about 10-15 times. So I turned off iCloud syncing and deleted all the contacts from iCloud.com. After I cleaned up all the duplicates, I re-enabled iCloud syncing on my iPad. However none of my contacts will sync to iCloud. I can manually create a contact on iCloud.com and it will sync to my iPad. I can also do the reverse.
My contacts on my iPad are syncing from our Exchange server. My calendar is the acting the same way and also synced from our Exchange server.
My ultimate goal is to keep my work and home contacts lists and calendar in sync.
Any suggestions?

Hey thomnj,
From what I understand, it sounds like after uninstalling and reinstalling your iTunes as a troubleshooting step, you're now missing some of your media? I would troubleshoot the issue with the steps in here:
iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408
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Syncing aperture and iPhoto, syncing aperture and iPhoto

I'd like to switch back to iphoto from aperture. I believe Apple isn't supporting aperture very well. Any suggestions?

Neither Aperture nor iPhoto do support synching of their image databases or even synching between databases generated by different applications.
The way from iPhoto to Aperture is a one-way road - to import iPhoto Libraries into Aperture is well supported, but back from Aperture to iPhoto you will have to export your projects and to reimport manually. This makes sense, since iPhoto only offers a subset of Aperture's features.
I believe Apple isn't supporting aperture very well.
I will not discuss belief, but Aperture and iPhoto share many frameworks and the database engine; so the only thing you'll get by going back will be a simpler graphical user interface and reduced funtionality.
Good Luck
Léonie

What is happening with iCloud and its sync with mobile devices?

I have been an Apple fan for 4 years now. I currently have 4 Macs (2 @ 27" and 2 @ 21.5" models), 2 iphones (4s and 3gs) and an iPad (2). I use them all for business and personal use.
Prior to purchasing my iPhone 4s on release day in the UK I was also a fully signed up Mobileme family account user. Everything worked fine. When I purchased my iPhone 4s I switched everything from Mobileme over to iCloud. Followed all the instructions. Initially it seemed to work fine. But over the last few weeks it has all gone horribly wrong resulting in the following; amongst other problems:
iPhone 4s
My iphone 4s will no longer sync mail, contacts and calendar effectively. Mail will sync new mail in my inbox but I cant send any mail and when I do draft a mail and send it dissappears from the outbox, sent box and inbox (i always bcc mail). The number of contacts is a fraction of the number of contacts in my contracts file on my main Mac. Calendar will not let me sync or add any new entries...let alone sync with iCal on the Mac.
iPad 2
My iPad suffers from much of the same problems as my iPhone. When I go to settings on the iPad and go to Mail, contacts and calendar, the iPad just freezes. I then have to hard re-set to get it working again.
iPhone 3gs
I used this before I upgraded to the 4s. It suffers with the same problems as my 4s described above.
iCloud.com
The number of contacts on iCloud.com is fixed at 1625no; whereas my Mac has a clean set of contacts containing 1325no. When I try to delete contacts on iCloud.com it says I cant because of a server error. Mail and Calendar both seem to work fine though.
I am now left with a major business critical problem. Niether iCloud.com, my Mac or my mobile devices will sync with each other. Apple has excalated the problem and my iCloud account is currently being tested. In the meantime my Mac contacts has duplicated and increased upwards of 4,000 contacts.
This whole journey of bad expereince is driving me insane and making my love of all things Apple wain.
I have restored my mobile devices about 8-9 times each. I have restored from previous versions stored on iTunes and also set them up as new devices....which as any of you will know is a laborious process because you have to reconfigure the Apps icons each time you do this as a new device! None of my attempts have fixed the situation.
Are we or have we been used by Apple as guinea pigs to test the iCloud which, according to the communities and discussions on this site, leaves a lot to be desired. This is having a dramatic affect on my quality of life and business.
Please help me.....
Mark

For the most part if you just get a new webhost you can continue to run with iWeb. Since you are still running Tiger iWeb should work just fine for you. You will simply need to publish your website to a folder or with the built in FTP in iWeb. Apple has simply quit updating iWeb & there will come a day when iWeb quits working in the later OS's whatever kitty comes after Lion.
Here's a link to who I use for Hosting:
http://jeffnitschke.com/wordpress/?p=84

Why aren't my iCloud and iTunes syncing?

I think that these two issues are related, which is why I'm just posting this all together.
iCloud issues - I recently purchased more space for my iCloud. It's backing up on a regular basis, but it doesn't affect/synch with my computer. If I add a contact on my phone, it doesn't update on my Macbook Pro. Do I need to register my computer in some way or another?
iTunes issues. My itunes has recently stopped sycing with my phone. I plug it into the computer or try to do it over wireless and my itunes recognizes that it is sycing, it goes through Steps 1-7 really quickly, and then nothign has changed. New podcasts or songs on my iTunes do not go onto my phone.
Just want to have everything running smoothly so any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Alex

Are you sure you can't run Lion on your computer? Check the requirements here, maybe you can upgrade, although you could not get all the features: http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html
For your iTunes problem I think it might be best if you disable wireless sync and do it via cable. I had something similar happen to me once and apparently there was some conflict there because of the Apple ID I was using on iTunes on my phone. I switched off wireless syncing and made sure I logged out of iTunes and it worked itself out.

When I purchased icloud and it synced up with my playlist it just chose what it wanted and rearranged my entire playlist and left off a lot of my music and rearranged the play list unlike anything I had on my iphone 5 before it upgraded to ios7???

when I upgraded to ios 7.2.0 it would not sync my music playlist correctly.
Advised my Apple to pay for suscription to Imatch/ Icloud it rearranged my play list so they are not even close to what they were
Icloud made the decision on which ones it would upload and completely deleted all it did not like( LOTS and LOTS of my music) any help would be appreciated because Apple just does not want to get involved in their created events whats so ever at all!!!!!! thanking anyone in advance for any help. Whiz

hi i had the same problem today when i updated my itunes to latest version. however, i have just found my songs in the 'itunes media' folder. this was accessed through 'my music' then keep clicking through until you find itunes media and all my library songs were in there and i then just added these files to my library and all were restored however, i have lost all my playlists but at least my 700 songs are back. very dissapointed with apple that they have let this happen with their latest update, the previous version was miles better than this one . hope you find them. stevo

IP3GS and IPhoto sync/delete issue

I can import photos from my iPhone 3GS but cannot delete the originals on the iPhone. Any thoughts?

Hi Douglas, I have just updated to the new iPhoto 9.4.1 and it has indeed finally sorted this problem. I am now able to select albums to sync from iPhoto using iTunes. Many thanks for the advice and pointing me in the direction of the new fix.

HT1202 iCloud and Computer Sync

I have an iPhone that is backed up to icloud. The computer I used to add music, etc. crashed. I had put music from several CD's on it and synced them. Can I sync my iPhone with my new computer and not lose data? How? I keep getting messages that everything on my phone will be deleted if I want to sync info.
Jenn

Read here:
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Issues with iPhone and iPhoto syncing

Having trouble adding photos from my iPhone5 to my iPhoto '09, version 8.1.2. The photos are not showing up or syncing. iPhoto says there is an iPhone device but nothing. It worked before, last time I transferred photos as in March 2014 and there was no problem. Any suggestions?

Try lauch iTunes.
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When it asks you to trust it, say yes.
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Photostream on icloud and iPhoto

Hi so I lost my iphone the other day and I am trying to retrieve my photostream. I just updated to Mountain Lion on my macbook pro and when I went to icloud, it showed that my photostream was not checked off as one of the things to be shared through icloud (even though I distintly remember checking it off). I do not have the updated version of iLife, so I can not see if my photostream would show up on there. Before I spend the money on the newer version of iphoto, i was wondering if anyone knew whether my photostream would most likely be there or not since icloud is saying that my photostream is not checked off.
Does anyone know any other way in which I can retrieve my photos? My iphone is officially dead and lost by the way.

Photo Stream requires the newest version of iPhoto:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486

HT4906 iCloud and iPhoto sync

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