ICloud Photo Library Differences Across Devices

I have updated to Photos on my Mac and using iCloud Photo Library and I'm having issues as the number of pictures is different in my Mac, iPhone and iCloud library. I have always used iPhoto as my main library so upon upgrading to Photos, I uploaded that library to iCloud Photo Library. It uploaded all night and now is showing ~7,500 photos with 168 to be uploaded. Those 168 to be uploaded hasn't changed since last week which is strange given Photos is otherwise working well (ie. properly processing edit / delete I did on my phone). I didn't wanted to have to deal with duplicate so I deleted all photos on my phone and turned on ICloud Photo Library. While there was some hiccups along the way (it worked fine at uploading pics until it started to upload only ~75% of pictures with the remaining staying gray which I then had to manually open), it now show that it is fully uploaded, yet it is only showing 6,539 pictures. When I check iCloud photo, I see it has just been updated, yet there is 6,617 photos. I can't really explain the difference in # of photos across the libraries as it should be the same. Anyone having the same issue and / or know how to fix this. I can't manually go through the libraries to see if there are discrepancies.

Thanks,
Unfortunately, I have already clicked the "importing: copy items to Photo Library" box. I only had about 6,600 photos in iPhoto so I am not sure why Photos is telling me I have ~7,500 pictures. I think the large number is due to some double counting of pictures due to my Photostream being uploaded first. When I first opened Photos, it did not recognize my iPhoto library (it's store in my Google Drive folder) so it loaded my photostream. When I realized the mistake, I loaded the iPhoto library, made it the default library and deleted the Photos library that only contained pictures from my photostream. However, Photos never adjusted the # of photos to reflect the fact that I had deleted the library.

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