ICloud Photo uploading

Hi,
I am having problems uploading photos from iPhotos on my MacBook Pro to iCloud Photos on iCloud Drive.
Its is telling that the file format is incorrect. Having a look into the detail, it tell me that the format is .jpg and it only can upload .jpeg. Can I change this en masse or will I have to go through my 30,000 one by one to be able to upload them?
Thanks in advance,
Adam

It's likely working - there are requests limits in place for uploading photos to the new photo service - they will eventually get there. You can check the progress by going to usage and look at the icloud photo entry under icloud storage usage. You will see there how many photos, videos and the size it's taking there.

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