ICloud Photo Drive Deleting My Photos and Videos

OK, so I bought the 200GB iCloud storage plan for one reason and that was so I could store all my photos without taking up a huge amount of space on any of my devices. On my iPhone and iPad I can turn on iCloud Photo Drive and everything works like it should. They upload the photos and then since I have optimize on they only keep the thumbnail of the picture and video. Here is where the problem starts, so I go to my Macbook Pro with all the latest updates installed and I turn on iCloud Photo Drive in the new Photos Application. It then proceeds to upload all my photos and when it finishes it starts deleting all my photos off my Macbook Pro. I have done this 4 times already and Im lucky that I had my photo library backed up. It deletes all of them and leaves no thumbnails. So I think well maybe they are just stored in iCloud, well I couldn't be more wrong the only photos stored in iCloud are the ones from my iPhone and iPad. Please help this is really frustrating and extremely annoying having to keep restoring my Photos Library.

The only photos backed up would be in your iOS backup file which is only the photos that were stored in the
Camera Roll. There may be some third party apps that can access the photos in the backup file if it is on your computer. A back up file on iCloud can only be accessed by Restoring a new iOS device using this backup.
Photo Stream can be accessed on PCs using the iCloud control panel. Photo Stream will only keep up to 1000 photos for a 30 day limit.
Other than iCloud having the ability to hold your iOS backup file it is intended more for synicng multiple devices rather than a back up service. Photos should always be copied to a computer and it's backup then they can be synced back over to the device through iTunes.

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