Photo Stream not syncing properly

I have had issues with this from the very beginning but after reading about others issues and trying their solutions I have had some success. However it's still not working exactly as it should.
I have turned it off and on - on both my computer and iPhone as well as reset it on the website. This finally did allow the phots on my phone to download to my computer but I still haven't had any success with the upload from computer to iPhone. Everything is in the proper folder for uploading. I have even tried changing the folder it uploads from within the iCloud Control Panel but still no success. I have since changed it back to the original upload folder. I just cannot get them to upload even after waiting 2 hours after each change. I have even gone in to my firewall and given permission to all the apple files I can find.
Anyone have any ideas of what to try next?

trying their solutions I have had some success. However it's still not working exactly as it should.
Did you try resetting > iCloud: Resetting your Photo Stream

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My Photo Stream not syncing properly

When i delete photos from 'My Photo Stream' on my Iphone, it deletes it from 'My Photo Stream' on my laptop. Is this correct? The reason i ask is that my understanding of this is that it should all sync 'live'. But, if i delete photos from 'My Photo Stream' on my laptop, it remains in 'My Photo Stream' on my Iphone.
Confusing.
I would prefer it if ''My Photo Stream' on my laptop was static so i have a backup of all photos taken. Is this possible?

See this document: iCloud: How to delete photos from Photo Stream
The reason i ask is that my understanding of this is that it should all sync 'live'. But, if i delete photos from 'My Photo Stream' on my laptop, it remains in 'My Photo Stream' on my Iphone.
Deleting the photos from Photo Stream will delete them from iCloud, if that photo is still in iCloud. The photos will only be in iCloud for a month. So if you delete an older photo from Photo Stream, the change may not be applied to other devices, since they will see no change in iCloud.
Also photos you already saved from the Photo Stream will not be deleted, if you delete a photo from Photo Stream.
I would prefer it if ''My Photo Stream' on my laptop was static so i have a backup of all photos taken. Is this possible?
Set the preferences on your Laptop to automatically download from the PhotoStream. Are you using iPhoto on your Laptop? All photos saved from the Photo Stream to monthly events by automatic download will stay in your iPhoto library, when you delete photos from the Photo stream on your devices.

Photos in iphone 4s photo stream not sync all with macbook air in iCloud

why the photos in my iphone photo stream not sync all to macbook via icloud? Its like when i have 20 photos in iphone photo stream, then only 15 photos sync to macbook. Under one apple ID, do not understand why is that. Is anybody else have the same issue or anyone can help out?

Exactly what suggestions have you followed and what was the result?
First, be sure that you are logged into the same iCloud account on both devices.
Settings > iCloud

Why do my photo stream not sync between iPhone 4S & iPad? Some pics do but not all

Why does the photo stream not sync between iPhone 4S & iPad? Some pics do, some don't.

Welcome to the Apple Community.
    1.    Photostream only syncs photos over Wi-Fi, make sure you are connected to Wi-Fi to begin with.
    2.    Photostream only syncs when the camera app is closed, ensure it is closed.
    3.    Photostream only syncs when the battery is above 20%, try recharging the device
Try disabling photo stream on your device (settings > iCloud), restarting your device and then re-enabling photo stream.
Note: disabling photostream and re-enabling it will result in any photos that are currently in the photostream album on your device, that are older than 30 days old, not being added back.

Windows 7 Photo Stream not syncing after iCloud 3.0

HELP! I am a relatively new to the IPhone community. My husband bought me one for Christmas 2013. I have the IPhone 5s . Like many users, I want to be able to back up the pictures I take and or receive on my phone to my computer. I have a Dell laptop running on Windows 7. I downloaded iCloud 3.0 and have the checked off the box next to Photos. I also have Photos turned on in the ICloud settings on my phone. I experienced this problem back in April, where my photos were not syncing to my computer. I contacted Apple Support, and he ran several tests. I took a couple of pictures, and they started syncing. While I was not able to get all of my photos, I had the majority of them and I figured the problem was solved and would continue to sync from there on out.
I just checked this past weekend and saw none of my recent photos were there. I proceeded to google the subject, tried deleting the ICloud control panel and redownloaded it, and then forced a backup on my phone. It only backed up 87 of the 517 photos I have in my Photo Stream. I tried these trouble shooting options below but once again, only have 90 of the 517 photos I have:
1. Open Task Manager (ctrl, alt and delete) and end ApplePhotoStream.exe and AppltPhotoStreamDownloader.exe if they’re running.
2. Go to your Users folder and navigate to the following path: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MediaStream\
3. Delete everything in that folder.
These files are a local cache of what has already been synced but it appears to get stuck so deleting these files forces it to resync again from scratch.
4. Open iCloud Control Panel and make sure “Photos” are checked.
The above steps force re-downloading of images after any stuck point. It should make sure that your newer images are downloaded.
My husband has an IPhone as well, and his photos sync no problem to his IPad. I am assuming this works better since they are both Apple Products. Can someone please help me resolve this issue as I would like to be able to get my photos on my computer so I can delete some of them off my phone?

If the missing photos were added to photo stream more than 30 days ago they are no longer in iCloud (although they may still be on your your phone). In that case, to get the older photos to stream to your computer you can add them to a shared stream on your phone (see http://help.apple.com/icloud/#/mmc0cd7e99). (Note: when creating the shared stream, you don't have to invite any subscribers. As the owner of the shared stream you are automatically subscribed to it; just skip that step.) Another option is to save them to the camera roll on the phone and import them to your computer using your usb cable, as explained here: iOS: Import personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer.

Photo stream not syncing to other devices

I have an iPhone, iPad and Macbook but can not get my photo streams to sync on all my devices. Example I have 5 different streams on my phone but they are not visible on my macbook and iPad

Hi Carolyn Samit & Kyled75,
I'm having almost a similar issue with my two iDevices. I have an iPad 3 and an iPhone 6 Plus and both of them have exactly the same settings for iCloud as well as "Photos & Camera". Photo Stream is enabled on both devices.
But when I go to "Photos -> Albums -> My Photo Stream" or simply in the main Photos Section, I cannot see all my previous photos and videos on my iPhone. However, on my iPad, I can see each and every photo and video perfectly without any hassle.
I really hope to get some help on this issue.
Thanks & Regards,
Abid
+966-50-4666-839

Photo stream not syncing

so i have a iphone 4s a ipad2, apple tv and i have recently downloaded icloud for pc. My problem is that my photos are not syncing to each device. they all have different images under photostream although they are logged in under the same icloud account. The main pictures are taken from my iphone so what i have done is copied the images from the camera roll on my iphone and copied them into the photostream folder in the icloud software on my pc. when i then turn the photostream software back on on my ipad it only brings back a few clipart images that were saved locally on the ipad months ago from a colouring app.
on the applt tv it is the same thing it will only bring in a few images but these are not the same as what opens on the ipad they are from my phone but only a few. also since i copied the pics from the camera roll on my phone the photostream on my phone has reduced in size also but nothing like the ipad or apple tv
any help would be appreciated

Here's a little more detail on what happens. When you take a photo on your phone it's saved to the camera roll. When the photo app is closed, you are connected to wifi and your phone has at least 20% battery life remaining, it will then upload to photo stream in iCloud. Once there, iCloud will stream a "device optimized" copy of the photo to your iOS devices and Apple TV, and a full resolution copy to your computer. Once on your devces, a rolling collection of up to 1000 photos will remain on your devices until deleted. However, they only stay in iCloud for 30 days (even though they remain on any device that has already received them). Because of this, when you connect a new device to your photo stream, it downloads all the photo stream photos still in iCloud; which are only the phtoos from the last 30 days. This creates a situation where you may have old photo stream photos on your phone than the ones you have on other devices, which were connect to your photo stream at a later date.
To get these older photos to appear on your other iOS devices, you can add them to a shared photo stream and invite yourself. To get them to your PC, save them to your camera roll (tap Edit, tap the photos, tap Share, tap Save to Camera Roll), then import them using your usb cable as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083.

Photos do not sync properly

I am having some curious trouble with photos syncing properly from an iPhoto album to my iPhone 3GS.
I have an album with 6 photos. I edited all six photos in iPhoto using "Edit in External Editor". After editing and saving, the photos show in the iPhoto event the way I want them, as well as in the album in question.
However, when I sync the phone in iTunes, the photos in the album show up as before they were edited. They do not sync properly. They look fine in iPhoto, but not on the phone.
I have tried the following things to make this work.
I have deleted all the photos in the album, unchecked the album in iTunes under Photos, and synched. Then I added the edited photos to the album again, checked the album in iTunes under Photos and synched again. This did not work. The photos still show up as before the edit.
I unchecked the album again in iPhoto, synched the phone and then did a reset of the phone by pressing the sleep/wake button and the Home button at the same time and waiting until the Apple logo appeared again. I then checked the album in iTunes again, and synched. This also did not work.
Lastly, I deleted the album entirely in iPhoto, and recreated the album from again by choosing the edited photos in question inside the event, and then hitting the "+" button in the lower left of the iTunes window. This also did not work.
The weird thing is, that I have also edited at least one other photo in a differnt album, which then synched properly.
I hope somebody has an idea as to how to fix this.

look, in all these 2000 things you tryed there is one thing i don't thing you did actually try, which is to rename the photos in the album.
This did not work either.
sometimes it may hapen that you cannot sync properly if you have strange names or sometimes the itunes doe not see the files properly.
Strange names? What do you consdider to be strange names? "Sometimes iTunes does not see the files properly"? Where do you get that idea?
try renaming 'em and see if it works. you can also rename the folder with the photos.
Renaming the photos does not work. Renaming the event (that is what you mean I think) does not work either.
also, another thing; try to select your photos in iphoto and take them off with the mouse and put them in a folder in some other location in teh computer (like for example the desktop) and sync them from taht location in itunes, it may help.cheers!
This is complete nonsense. Photos have to be in an album in iPhoto in order to be synched with the iPhone via iTunes. Putting photos anywhere else on the computer does not allow them to be synched with the phone. They must be in iPhoto.

The New Photo App Not Syncing Properly

I've been pulling my hair out over the last week or so with the new Photo's in the iCloud and how the online database won't sync properly.
This is how I went about the upgrade.
I have a Mac Mini which has been for the past several years drawing down my family's photo's and video etc from all out devices using iPhoto. This has worked very nicely. I've been adding pictures from my stream into albums etc with about 200 or so. All files are stored locally of course in organized folder which is then back up on to a external drive.
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How did you import the photos?
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Hi Blackk05,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like your Photo Stream may not be appearing on your iPhone 6. I know it can be worrying to not see your photos, and I can help you find the My Photo Stream album.
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I've been trying to work out a way to import photos on my iMac and have Photo Stream push them to my MacBook so they end up in the same Event on both computers. If I have Automatic Upload turned on, the photos I import on my iMac get uploaded to Photo Stream before I get a chance to place them into my intended Event. So I tried turning Auto Upload off, importing photos, placing them into their proper Event, turning Auto Upload back on, and then dragging them to Photo Stream to upload them.
First, it seems like there should be an easier way. But also unfortunately, even though Help in iPhoto 11 (9.2) seems to say this should work (see below), my photos end up in my MacBook's Photo Stream folder, but not in the Event (with Automatic Import turned on on my MacBook). This is what is written in the Help documentation -
Note: If iPhoto automatically imports a Photo Stream photo that was originally uploaded from a different iPhoto library, or from an Aperture library, iPhoto adds the photo to the Event that matches the one in the original library. If a matching Event isn’t in the destination library, iPhoto creates a new Event with the same name.
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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.
When I open iTunes and connect my iPhone, I have selected to sync photos from all Events in the last 12 months. This should include all the projects that were created in Aperture. This is where I hit the problem. Some of the projects sync just fine. Others do not. When they don't sync, 2 things happen:
1. The Events don't appear on the iPhone
2. When I look in iTunes, all the affected Events have the same item count. The item count is correct for one project, but not the others. So, for example, I have 4 projects at the moment that won't sync, and all show in iTunes with an item count of 1. Only one project actually contains 1 photo, the rest have many more.
I have tried all sorts of things in Aperture, such as rebuilding the data, deleting the iPod Photo Cache etc.
Does anyone have any idea?
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.
- turn off automatic import for Photo Stream;
- identify 'the ghost'-projectfolders, select and delete them;
- close Aperture (this saves the current setting and condition of your library);
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- turn on automatic import for Photo Stream.

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Hi, am using Aperture 3.4.3 on OS X 10.8.2 but had the same issue below when using iPhoto...
Have Photo Stream enabled within settings but when I use Aperture, not all of my photos are being synchronised.
Simply, my iPhone shows I have 231 photos in 'My Photo Stream' but through Aperture is shows just 129 - it is the older photos that aren't sync'd.
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Any ideas?
Thanks.
Pete.

The Photo Stream is not really a method to sync photos - it is a method to buffer the most recent photos for import, and it may look differently on all devices, depending on when the photo stream has been enabled on the device. On each device it will show the most recently added 1000 photos, and photos older than a month may not show at all.
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Photo Stream not syncing all photos

Hi,
I'm experiencing some issues where Aperture Photo Stream is not syncing every photo to iCloud. I've successfully shared a number of projects but there are a few that just get stuck and only seem to sync some of the photos and the same ones each time. For example I've a project with 36 photos of which only 22 will sync which I've recreated a few times with exactly the same result each time.
I'm fully up to date with OS and Aperture and I've rebuilt permissions and the library and have deleted and recreated the Photo Stream a few times. All the photos are referenced and I've rebuilt the image previews in the project(s) concerned.
Looking in the Console log the only message I'm seeing which is indicating a problem are these which look related but give no further information or indication:
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WOW! That font is difficult to read. But, see if this support document helps you http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3989. Photos stream is based on date and photos more than 30 days old are removed. Photostream is designed as a temporary storage to allow you to download the photos to the computer.

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