No Photos, grey Boxes

Imported my photos but c
an't see anything but grey boxes, what should or could I do to resolve this. I
have Lightroom 3

That's usually caused by a corrupt monitor profile. You should recalibrate your screen. If you don't own calibration hardware and are on windows (Macs don't usually have the corrupt monitor profile issue), go into the monitor's properties pane and delete any profile you see associated with the monitor. It is highly recommended to get a monitor calibrator as otherwise you simply cannot trust your monitor at all. Basic ones can be had for under $100 from Huey Pro and Spyder.

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Photos not downloading to app. Getting blank grey boxes instead.

Hello,
I recently had the need to log out of iCloud to troubleshoot an issue on my iPad Air 2 running iOS 8.1.2.
In the photos app, I've got iCloud Photo Library turned on, most of my photos downloaded fine, however, there are several dozen that are showing up as blank grey boxes. If I tap on one, it goes full screen and a little progress circle appears, then hangs up a quarter of the way competed.
I received a new iPhone 6 Plus the day before yesterday, also on ios 8.1.2, and when I logged into all my accounts on it, all the photos downloaded to it without issue. None were missing or grey.
Anyone have any ideas why these photos aren't downloading properly to my iPad?
I've tried both rebooting and a hard reboot (home+ power).
I really would like to avoid having to log out of iCloud again, or restore the iPad,, since it literally takes 15-18 hours for all my data to sync back to the device, most need ing manual intervention to speed up the process, ie launching apps and letting them stay open until all data is synced, then launching the next app, and so on. For example, my collection of photos has 10,974 images and videos, so that alone takes hours and hours to sync.

Yes, the photos are/were on iCloud.com, in addition to, my iPhone 6 Plus. All the photos, except for the newest images, are backed up in iPhoto. I uploaded my entire photo library into the iCloud Photo Library because of the compression, where 98gigs of photos only take up only 28gigs on my iCloud Drive and 9gigs on my iDevices. Can't beat having all your photos in your pocket.
That being said, I knew there would be issues, as iCloud Photo Library is in beta. Moreover, I have found iOS 8 and Yosemite to be the buggiest and most frustrating software releases I have dealt with since the initial release of OS X, back in 2001.
Sad to say that, "It just works," cannot be used to describe the current state of Apples software.
So, I still have over 10,000 images, loosing 108 images isn't really all that big a deal. I just hope it doesn't continue to happen.
On a side note. I have a lot of issues trying to share images with shared folders. I create and name a shared folder. I add people. Then I open the folder, hit the big plus, select photos, hit done, and nothing happens. Sometimes I can get it started by selecting only one photo. Other times I try it on a different device to get it to work. It only works about 60% of the time. It's so frustrating, I'm looking for alternatives.

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my ipad 4 retina display has recently lost a load of photos from my photo stream , they appear as Grey boxes but they are still all ther on my iPhone 5

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I restored my photo library because I had blank grey boxes instead of photo in many event folders. I got all blank grey boxes and the same key picture for almost all my photos.

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. Include the option to rebuild the thumbnails. It can take 3 or 4 goes for this to work

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Lately when I am working in my photo album in iPhoto my images are replaced with a grey box and an ! . I can't see the images on the page. All my photos are high quality. What am I doing wrong?

The ! turns up when iPhoto loses the connection between the thumbnail in the iPhoto Window and the file it represents.
Option 1
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. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. .
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Hey Adam..........thanks for responding to me. This issue started last week as I was backing up my gallery photos over to Dropbox from my S4. I have not made any changes to my device or plan, nor have I done any updates, downloads or damaged my device. The images in the thumbnails at the bottom are clear and visible, however when I tap the photo it pops up for an instant and then a grey box covers the photo. All my photos are on the SD card- none are in the cloud, which is why I sent them to my dropbox to back them up. It appears that there are about 5 or so of over 700 photos that this has happened to. I am attaching a few of them so you can see the problem. Let me know what I need to do to fix this. Please reply to my email (removed)
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Trying to get my photos from iCloud restored. Just showing a grey box just now even for video.

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I have a large document that I am putting in many screenshots. I use the standard format (picture1, picture2, etc), then drag and drop them to my document. This has worked fine overall but yesterday I opened my file and received the error message that files were missing, specificlaly images. If I accept this and look at my document, there are grey boxes with a question mark in the center. What happened? The grey box shows the proper file name, just no image. Show contents shows that I have no files in there, I am at a loss (to fix this and my graphics).
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Ok, I too got scared with this problem today! But apparently managed to fix it!
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You probably mean a yellow question mark. That means that the photo is "missing" or "disconnected" from the PSE catalog. That is, the photo no longer resides at the location recorded in the catalog for that photo. Most likely, you used Windows Explorer to move or delete the photo after you imported it into PSE. See this FAQ for what to do:
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Broken grey box in the local files

Whether I place the image in the site folder
or copy it there when prompted by DW, I get a broken grey box IN the file folder.
I click on assets to see the photo and the preview is a grey box.
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/Which version of DW?/
DW CS6
/Which operating system?/
Windows 7
/Is your local site defined in DW?/
Yes
/Is your image saved for web as an optimized JPG?/
Yes
Strange thing is, I loaded into Photoshop, saved it as a PSD.
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So I did. Then it showed up. I don't want to have to go through all that
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Grey boxes!

help! Today I was uploading photos of my newborn baby. iphoto had trouble importing all the photos from my camera, I had to do it several times and it still didn't import all the photos. Now when I look at the photos they disappear and are replaced with grey boxes.
What can I do? Thanks!

dgoodfeuer:
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One way to recover some real estate is to run Monolingual to remove the unneeded language modues. I recovered nearly 2G on my new MacBook Pro the first time I ran it. Just be sure to not remove the English module or bad, bad things will happen.
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Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
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