New photos app (replacing iPhoto) not syncing properly

Since installing the new OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 to iMac and ISO 8.3 to iPhone 5s and iPad3, not all of my photo albums and photos in various albums are syncing..... any hints?? I also installed the latest iTunes 12.1.2.27 too ! I have rebooted all devices too....
Thanks Schooner

Same issue here. Photos taken on my iPhone show up on my iPad and vice versa, but nothing new shows up in Photos on my Mac. It’s perpetually stuck “preparing items”, ostensibly for syncing to the cloud, but it never seems to get unstuck. I think it worked for about a day after uploading my 53,000 photos, but as soon as I deleted some of my now redundant date-organized “iPhoto” albums it got stuck again in syncing (apparently trying to sync every single photo AGAIN) and hasn’t worked since. I would prefer to use Apple software, but I’m about to declare defeat.

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http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/photo-stream.html
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