Import my photo stream

Hey guys what happened to the old Import option for the my photo stream? I can't seem to download the photos in my photo stream to my mac?

iOS: Importing personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer
That will get photos from your Camera Roll album.
For photos synced to the device you need a third-party app like PhoneView or TouchCopy
If you turn on PhotoStream in iPhoto you will get the last 30 days of PhotoStream photos

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    I am completely lost.  Any help would be appreciated.
    Thank you!
    sarah

    and I am trying to organize photos so there aren't duplicates and triples.  I have photos in events, last import, photos and albums....I feel like they are all taking up space.
    Sarah,
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    What you are seing are not actually duplicate photos but different ways to access the same photos.
    The "Last event" is the same event as the last one you imported. It is there for a quick access to your recently imported photos.  Photos is a quick access to all photos in your library as an endless stream of photos. These are also no duplicates.
    So if you want to save space and delete photos, do that by browsing your events. Deleting a photo from an event will delete the original image file and remove the photo from all albums, books, and other products. You have only duplicate photos, if you are seing the same photo twice in an event.
    Even more bizarre; I imported photos from my 4S, and only a fraction of them transferred over.
    That is a different problem, but it may be related to to fact that you need to free space.
    If you get a warning, that the system needs space, don't do anything but update the backup of your mac and move files to an external disk to free space.
    It is not save to keep working, when the system is running out of space.
    How much free space do you have? Anything below 15GB free space is really critical.
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  • Automatic Import Of Photo Streams I Subscribe To (not mine)

    Sorry, if this question has already been answered, I could not find the info in my feeble search attempts.
    My understanding of the Automatic Import setting for Aperture is that it automatically imports my Photo Stream and only my Photo Stream. Aperture automatically creates a new Project for each month of Photo Stream import.
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    Correct?
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    Could a Smart Album do this? I couldn't seem to figure out how to create one. I couldn't get the source to point to the specific Photo Stream.

    It does not automatically import any photos from any of the other Photo Streams I'm subscribing to.
    Correct?
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    Could a Smart Album do this? I couldn't seem to figure out how to create one. I couldn't get the source to point to the specific Photo Stream.
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    Sorry, I have not really a solution, unless you would be willing to write an Apple Script, that checks for new photos and imports.
    Regards
    Léonie

  • Some iPhone 4S photos imported via Photo Stream are black

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    2. Minor Database corruption: Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild.
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    4. A corrupted iPhoto Cache: Trash the com.apple.iPhoto folder from HD/Users/Your Name/Library/ Caches...
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  • Does Aperture need to be open to import from photo stream?

    Hi,
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    Aperture 3.5

    Might seem silly but is there any way to request a daemon be created to handle this magically in the background? Or open and push iPhoto to the background so I don't know its running?

  • Import from photo stream into Lightroom 5.7 - how can I import only new photos since first import of all photos in stream (mac)

    Hi
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    I hesitate to continue the process and to try my luck as I'm afraid I will end up with more than all 2012 photos doubled.
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    Thanks!
    Kind regards
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    Found it.
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  • How to import shared photo stream photos to iPhoto

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    I already have half the photos (as I shared them)..... but I would like to import my wife's photos.
    Is there and easy way to do this?

    Hello BrJL,
    Thank you for contacting Apple Support Communities.
    The following two articles should help you make sure you have your photo sharing set up correctly.
    iCloud: Set up iCloud Photo Sharing
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13691
    iCloud Photo Sharing FAQ
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5902
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  • How to stop Automatic import of photo stream photos?

    Photos app is automatically importing every picture from photo stream. Even after deleting the photos in photo stream they are still showing up in the photos library. How do I stop auto import? There does not seem to be a way to stop this. It is saving every pic I take with my iPhone. I have to manually delete hundreds of photos I do not want .

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    On your iPhone, how do you have the options in Settings > iCloud > Photos set? Is either iCloud Photo Library or Upload to My Photo Stream set?
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  • How to prevent iPhoto to make an automatic event when importing from Photo stream

    Hi everyone,
    My question is related to the Photo stream functionality in iPhoto.
    Is possible to prevent iPhoto from making an automatic event when I import a photo from Photo stream. It is really annoying because of the fact that I use "events" for keeping my important photo's together (as many of you do I asume). Ofcourse after importing I can just delete it from my event section but is there a way to prevent it?
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    No. Photostream creates an Event for each month.
    iPhoto has many other tools for managing and categorising your Photos.
    I use Events simply as big buckets of Photos: Spring 08, July - Nov 06 are typical Events in my Library. I use keywords and Smart Albums extensively. I title the pics broadly.
    I keyword on a
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    Using this system I can find pretty much find any pic in my 40k library in a couple of seconds.
    So, for example, I have a batch of pics titled 'Seattle 08' and a  typical keywording might include: John, Anne, Landscape, mountain, trees, snow. With a rating included it's so very easy to find the best pics we took at Mount Rainier.
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    add Rating is greater than 4 stars
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    In the end, organisation is about finding the pics. The point is to make locating that pic or batch of pics findable fast. This system works for me.
    Regards
    TD

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    I have new mini-mac I have set up and I would like to import all of my photos from my iPhone 6.  Any help is appreciated.

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  • Import iCloud Photo Stream into Lightroom

    Hi.
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  • Importing photos from Photo Stream not working properly

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  • Importing photos from photo stream

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  • Aperture photos from Photo Stream not syncing in iTunes

    Hi
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    As far as I can tell, my problems have been caused by me renaming the automatic import projects in Aperture.  I did notice that Aperture kept creating new empty projects for the same month. 
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    - close Aperture (this saves the current setting and condition of your library);
    - open Aperture again;
    - turn on automatic import for Photo Stream.

  • Aperture, Photo Stream and new iPhone

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