ICloud photo stream for PC still doesn't work
I just read this 16-page comment thread about how photos merging won't work with iCloud Control Panel 3 on PCs: My Photo Stream is empty with iCloud Control Panel 3.0
The thread goes back about nine months without a solution. I have the same problem and need to find a fix.
We have about 15 iPads for customer use at our business. We occasionally upload photos to these devices and customers are allowed free use of the iPads. The devices are fixed in place and connected to a power supply and WiFi. My computer is a Windows 7 64-bit running iCloud Control Panel 3.1 on a separate WiFi network on property. The problem is photo downloading and uploading only works intermittently. Sometimes new photos populate in my PC's photo stream but usually they don't. The same is true when I try to push photos from my computer onto all the iPads using the upload folder. It usually works but not always.
This might be a minor annoyance for an Apple customer with one iPad but it creates lots of unnecessary work for a business because I have to use Dropbox to upload photos and have someone check the iPads for inappropriate photos daily.
The photo stream seems to work well between the iPads. It just seems the iPads don't play well with iCloud on PCs. I'm surprised this type of problem has persisted so long at Apple.
Try disabling photo stream on your device (settings > iCloud), restarting your device and then re-enabling photo stream.
If this doesn't help you may need to reset photo stream. You can do this at icloud.com by clicking on your name in the top right corner and then the advanced settings in the pop-up dialogue box that appears.
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But I'm cool with creating private and shared albums, thing is, they are not the same depending on whether you view them from an iPhone and MacBook.
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2/ Download from MacBook iPhoto/Photos stream/album to my MacBook hard drive, but it's not currently possible (osx 10.9.5).
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