Icloud stopped backing up (froze really) photo library from macbook pro

Recently bought a new macbook pro retina and enabled the icloud for storing my photo library (roughly 14,000 pictures) Set things up about 5 days ago. In icloud it shows album/event names but no pictures are loaded up. On computer it says icloud backing up photos (notes 11,000 photos) - I tried pausing and restarting but is stuck at that 11k number for days now. Perhaps I need to re-do but not sure how to do that... Help?! Thank you

Hi!
Unfortunately, the upload resource on Photos is ***! 14K pictures, you'll suffer.
I have only 1000 photos (oldest pics, I keep in another cloud service) and the upload was so slow and confusing.
The my tip for you is deactivate the iCloud Photo Library in all your devices and restarting again by the one them! Or, you can reduce the number of photos you desire to upload to cloud.

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