Photo stream strange behavior???

The last ten days I took some pictures with my iPhone 5! All of them have been uploaded to my iCloud according to my iPhone.
But in my Mac running mountain lion and iPhoto 9.4.3, photo stream is empty. (I tried turn off turn on). So I tried on my older Mac book running lion and iPhoto 9.3.2. After I created a new iPhoto library it started downloading photos from the cloud. BUT it wasn't the photos of the last days but some very old photos. It drives me crazy 3 devices and not a single image is the same (including Mac which has none)

. BUT it wasn't the photos of the last days but some very old photos. It drives me crazy 3 devices and not a single image is the same (including Mac which has none)
The photo stream may differ on all devices, depending on when it has been turned on. See:
iCloud: Photo Stream troubleshooting

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I have a selection of 109 photos from a recent holiday in a folder on my MacBook, which I would like in a folder on my iPad as a nice way to show them to friends. iTunes may work but seems so incredibly clunky and old-fashioned I hoped I could do it over the network or via the cloud. I would use (and often have used) Dropbox, which is reliable and logical but rather tedious as you have to save each photo one by one.
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In the Summer 2014 album, I briefly see “103 Photos” at the bottom of the album, but this quickly changes to 66 as photos that briefly appeared now disappear, leaving only 66 left in the album
Checking in Photos/Collections/Yesterday, I find there are now 66 photos (rather than 37 as there were earlier) - the same ones that are showing in my Summer 2014 album.
If I attempt to manually add any of the missing photos to the album, nothing happens - the album refuses to allow any more than the 66 it has.
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Yesterday, when I was playing with this, the album allowed 68 photos. I tried deleting one and adding one of the missing photos, but it wouldn't allow this either, so I don't think it's objecting to the number of photos so much as disliking particular ones.
I've got 7.7GB free space on the iPad so I don't think it's a space issue.
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Well done lumacj! This is a good workaround. Forgive me if I offer a simplified version here (this works if original photos are in Photo stream):
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The dates can be seen in the List View.
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Turn your iOS device off and on (restart) and reset
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