Importing photos from photo stream

Under iphoto, it used to be that photos would be pulled down from photo stream and an album for the month would be auto generated, housing all of the photos for that month that were imported from photo stream.
Under the new photos app, I see the current month (April 2015) but it's not updating with any new photos.
When I look at my photo stream (the main fire hose), my photos show there - just not in the auto-generated folder.
When I pull back and look at the April 2015 folder, it is housed under "iPhoto albums" ...
My question is this:
Is this feature now retired? Do I now have to manually create these monthly folders?
Differences between iPhoto and the Photos app do not exactly seem to be spelled out.

I'm also trying to figure some of this out... looking to migrate from Aperture.
When migrating your old library to Photos, your "April 2015" photo stream was converted to a Photos "album." This, along with your other iPhoto albums (Projects in Aperture) were placed in the "iPhoto albums" folder.
It doesn't seem that Photos creates new albums for Photo Streams. These photos are all pulled into the one "My Photo Stream" which seems to be a "smart" album.

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If you have not auto imported the photos from the Photo Stream, as Larry suugests, select the photos that you want to import in the Photo Stream, and drag them to the "Events" view in the Source List. They will be imported as new events, auto split with respect to your preferences.
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Is my only option to copy photos from photo stream a few at a time? And does that not repush them back up to the stream and erase older photos?
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and log into your iCloud account on that Mac and enable Photo Stream, the Photo Stream photos will automatically be imported into the new library. It can take a while depending on how many photos are in the stream.
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Aperture photos from Photo Stream not syncing in iTunes

Hi
I am running Aperture 3.4.3 on an iMac running 10.8.2. I have Photo Stream enabled. When I open Aperture, it downloads all the recent photos from Photo Stream and puts them in to one or more automatically created projects called something like "Mar 2013 Photo Stream". As I understand it, Aperture is copying the photos from Photo Stream to these new projects, so when Photo Stream eventually deletes the photos (say because I reach the 1000 photo limit), the downloaded versions in Aperture won't affected. So far, so good.
Because the new projects in Aperture start with the month name, I have taken to renaming these folders to something like "2013 03 March Photo Stream", and you can then sort them alphabetically. This might be red herring though.
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Thanks.

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.
This solution from Jannem1970, posted on this thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3585677?start=0&tstart=0, seems to have done the trick for me.
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Select your iPad in the Devices list and click "Import all".
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Take photo from image stream using capture engine technique in media foundation

Hi,
I am beginner for media foundation.I have to develop Win32 desktop application using capture engine technique in media foundation.
I have to implement the following features:1)Show video streaming 2)Capture video 3)Capture photo from still-image stream.These features are implemented in capture engine.
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