IPad2 - Photo Stream - Duplicate Photos...

I along with several other people by the looks of this forum am having problems with photo stream on my iPad2 and the photo stream more often than not being empty. What i have noticed is when the photos do sometimes appear on my iPad, there are 2 copies of all photos!? If I take a new photo and it appears in the photo stream folder then there is just 1 copy of it?
Is anyone having the same thing as me?

The photos that appear duplicated are actually there from two separate locations:
1. Photo Stream
2. From your Mac, an iPhoto event with a name such as "Aug 2014 Photo Stream"
You can remove the photo from one of these sources on your Mac, and then you won't see what appear to be the duplication.

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Until Yosemite comes out it seems that we're kind of stuck trying to figure out an "easy" way to have photos display on multiple devices. I've just started messing with iCloud & the photos and when I turn on photo stream it duplicates them into it's own folder. This just seems to be a massive headache and I don't want ALL my photos to sync but I also don't want to have to go through to make individual streams for everything I want to sync/share
Anyone have a solution to this or do we just sit tight and hope they fixed this in iOS8?
Seems like a big oversight/usability thing (much like having folders in photos be useless because you still have the master folder that everything stays in.)

The photos that appear duplicated are actually there from two separate locations:
1. Photo Stream
2. From your Mac, an iPhoto event with a name such as "Aug 2014 Photo Stream"
You can remove the photo from one of these sources on your Mac, and then you won't see what appear to be the duplication.

Anyone else seeing photo stream duplicate files?

I have numerous, maybe all, of the photos in my photo stream are duplicated. One file name is upper case, then duplicated in lower case. I revealed the photos in Finder, and you can see the duplicate photo example below. On file is IMG_1072.JPG and the other is img_1072.jpg. The timestamp of the files are hours apart.
Anyone else experiencing this anomaly?
-rw-------@ 1 bernie staff 2150761 Dec 23 11:22 /Users/bernie/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/sub/016a281bb19f7638e42fb220e9cc9b48a1738e3 5ee/IMG_1072.JPG
-rw-------@ 1 bernie staff 4060588 Dec 23 23:40 /Users/bernie/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/sub/01d4fc42c97ff5416045f7ad608d4ac0721944f bb9/img_1072.jpg

You can see from the info screen shot below that one file is 2.2 MB and the other is 4.1 MB. I did a web search for photo stream duplicate issues, and did not find one thread regarding this! I don't know what is causing the duplicates yet, but I have my suspicions. Here are three things that have changed recently which may be related to the problem:
1. I installed Aperture, which shares the same library as iPhoto.
2. I recently began sharing my photo stream, but I'm not sure if the dups occurred before or after that.
3. I created an Image Capture plugin which copies image files from my iPhone to a directory, changes file names to lower case, uses ImageMagick to add a small date stamp, etc. But I haven't even run this workflow on the two files listed below yet.
So, I'm still investigating...

Shared Photo Stream - Some photos will hang Aperture

Hi,
I am using Aperture 3.5.1 with Mavericks 10.9.4. Turned on My PhotoStream and Shared Photo Stream. Works great, except when trying to add certain photos to a Shared Photo Stream (older photos it seems). Doing so causes Aperture to enter this odd semi-hung state, where it is no longer responsive to the mouse in the main Aperture window, but the menus at the top still respond, and you can navigate around your photos with the keyboard (e.g. arrow keys). The thumbnail of the picture I tried to share remains stuck on the screen, even when you scroll away with the arrow keys. Lastly, you can switch out of Aperture (send it to the background), but when you click in your other, now-topmost, application, Aperture jumps back to the top, the other app never "catches" the mouseclick.
Anyone seen this? I have tried:
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- Duplicating the photo (version) I am trying to share, and try sharing the duplicate. Same result.
Pretty frustrated at this point. I have seen this exact semi-hang described at the bottom of this ApertureExpert forum thread, so I know it is not a total one-off thing...
Any one get out of this?
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Hmmm... very curious results as I continue to troubleshoot:
With a problematic photo:
- Do a New Version from Original, try to add to Shared Photo Stream: hangs as described above.
- Export the original, import back into Aperture, try to add to Shared Photo Stream: works
- Do a New Version from Original, adjust exposure, try to add to Shared Photo Stream: works!
- Do a New Version from Original, Delete Preview, try to add to Shared Photo Stream: hangs as described above.

I just purchase an IPhone5C to upgrade from my IPhone4, but I do not know how to get all of my photos that were on ICloud on my Photo Stream (875 photos), on to my new phone. I thought that since my 5C can see Icloud that all photos would be there...

I just purchase an IPhone5C to upgrade from my IPhone4, but I do not know how to get all of my photos that were on ICloud on my Photo Stream (875 photos), on to my new phone. I thought that since my 5C can see Icloud that all photos would be there... Can someone help me get the pics from my Iphone4 to the 5C?

Photostream in the cloud only keeps photos from the last 30 days (subject to a 1,000 photo limit). When photostream syncs the photos to your device they will stay there (subject to a 1,000 photo limit) until deleted, which means you may well have more photos in your photostream album on your device than there are in photostream in the cloud.
The consequence of this is that if you turn photostream off and on again on your device (or enable it for the first time), it will only be populated with photos from the last 30 days, which may not be all the photos that were previously in the photostream album on that device.

HT201317 Dear Sir/Madam i want to tell you that I am very disappointed because I just read that in photo stream my photos are stored only for (30) thirty days.I didn't know that and i didn't have the time to save them on a device.I was robbed of mobile al

Dear Sir/Madam
I want to tell you that I am very disappointed because I just read that in photo stream my photos are stored only for (30) thirty days.I didn't know that and I didn't have the time to save them on a device.
I was robbed of mobile before (3) three days and I lost 2.000 photos!
Is there any possibility to retrieve them?
If it was possible that would be great as I would save them immediately to my computer instead of losing them again.
Thank you for understanding
Kind Regards
Giaourtsakis Kleanthis

If you were trying to get this apple, you would do it here: https://getsupport.apple.com/

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I use my iPhoto exclusively as my camera at hand and that means I have tons of photos. What is the difference between Cameroll, Photo Stream and Photo Library? It seems that my Photo Stream has images that can be deleted ( a trash bucket icon) whereas the tech support and my local Mac store said the Photo Stream images are the ones that will be sent to iCloud and should not have the bucket. Whereas my Photo Library is not deletable? Whats is this all about and how can I make it right so I may manage my images correctly?

Camera Roll, all the picture you have taken with your iPhone. They are include in the iPhone Backup but should be transfered to your iPhoto Library on the computer for a better back up. Just like in the old days with a film camera, the is like you iPhones roll of film.
Photo Stream is iCloud's way of sharing your photos between your devices. It is not permanent storage for photo's limited to 1000 photos and can be deleted automatically in 30 days. It is a handy way to veiw photos on an Apple TV and other iOS devices or a quick and simple way to transfer them into iPhoto on your computer with out having to connect your iPhone to the computer. These photos are not backed up other than being visible on all your devices.
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All my photos from my iphone are getting re-imported into iPhoto by photo stream. I turned it off, but I now have hundreds of duplicates. Apparently the only solutions to remove the duplicates are to do it by hand or purchase 3rd party software. I hate Photo Stream...

Do you have HDR turned on on your iPhone camera? And if you do, is it keeping the original JPG? If it is, it will save two versions of each photo.
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I'm hardly an expert with Aperture, but I've been dismayed to see that once I've edited a photo in Aperture, Photo Stream picks up both the edited version AND the original master. Given that once I've edited the master it's no longer showing in Aperture itself, I don't know how to resolve this behavior. Even photos I've trashed (and emptied) show up in Photo Stream, both the original and any edited version that I likewise trashed.
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Oh. Aperture manages all my photos. I don't have them referenced from any other location, just in case that helps to know.
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Thanks in advance!
Laura

Hello Laura,
I'm afraid, there is nothing you can do about it. There is no way to delete an image from the Photo Stream other than wait for it to disappear on its own after 30 days.
If you have set Aperture to "automatic upload" to Photo Stream, your master images will be added to the stream, as soon as you import them, and they will stay until they are replaced by other images. And if you edit the image, then the edited version will appear in the Photo Stream too.
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Tap Options on screen
See if HDR is turned on.
Turn HDR off.
Are you saving the JPG:
Settings > Photos
Turn off Keep Normal Photo

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HI,
Maybe try it this way this is what I did with mine because I did not migrate and didn't know about that either.
and really have the sidebar so because it will help you get the pictures organized
Photos application for Mac Instructions that might help!
On your iPad,iPhone keep the iCloud on in settings for Photos.
if you have not opened the New Photos application yet to have it transfer your photos from iPhoto let it Transfer the Pictures.
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