Photo stream update frequency on Windows 7

Photos seem not be showing up in my photo stream location on my PC for the last few days. I hadn't really been paying attention to how often the PC syncs up with the photo stream. How quickly are photos supposed to show up in the photo stream location? I am not seeing photos from a couple of days ago at this point.

First make sure iCloud and Photo Stream are installed on your PC. Connect the iPad (or iPhone) to your PC with the USB cable and start iTunes on your PC. Once your iPad/iPhone shows up under "Devices" in the sidebar (which you may have to enable), click it. Then click "Photos" at the top of the iTunes screen on your PC. Check the "Sync Photos from" box, and then under that, click "Selected folders." (Ignore the pulldown menu to the right of "Sync Photos from" -- the important thing is to tick "Selected folders.") A pane should open up below that with a list of folders including "Photo Stream." Choose that and then at the bottom of the screen click Sync. This worked for my Windows 7 box.

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mlvov,
I did as you said and went to the icloud control panel on my Windows 8 Laptop to be sure I was looking at the correct folder for my photo stream. All my "shared" albulms pushed to my Laptop and are up-to-date with the exception of the "photostream" album. If I create a "shared stream album" and place photo's in it on the phone; I can see the photos on my laptop. I dont get it. I had a iphone 4s and had zero isues and now with my new nifty iPhone 5s it doesent work.
What am I not doing correctly.
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Up until recently I have been able to take pictures with an iOS device and have it sync to my photostream, then to a folder on my Windows PC. Once in my Windows folder the photo would stay there forever. Deleting the photo from iOS Photo Stream would not delete the photo from my Windows PC. Deleting the photo from my Windows PC would not delete the photo from iOS Photo Stream.
Very recently the Photo Stream folder on my Windows PC has been deleting copies as I delete them from my iOS Photo Stream. On the apple website it says:
"Master photo library. On your Mac or PC.
Keeping a complete set of your photos on your Mac is as simple as turning on Photo Stream in iPhoto or Aperture. Every new photo you take appears in a Photo Stream album just as it does on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. But since your Mac has more storage than your iOS device, it automatically imports every picture from your Photo Stream into your photo library so you can edit, delete, and share the ones you want. Want to get the photos you’ve taken on your point-and-shoot or DSLR camera into your Photo Stream to view on all your other devices? The photos you import to your library from a camera or SD card are automatically uploaded to your Photo Stream. If you have a PC, you can auto-import and upload pictures, too. Just turn on Photo Stream, grab a camera, and start shooting."
How can I set up Photo Stream to PERMANENTLY save every photo taken with my iOS devices on my Windows PC FOREVER AUTOMATICALLY like it used to last week?
I want to be able to delete photos from Photo Stream to free up space on my iOS device and know that the photos won't delete from my Windows PC. I could do this literally last week.
Any way to do this?

[b]Fixed it, had to delete the folder where the My Photo Stream was. I just created a backup of it and then deleted it, let iCloud re populate the folders and it came back.[/b]

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Hi dDub_DW,
Welcome to the Support Communities! The article below will help you troubleshoot the issue you are having with Photo Stream on your PC:
iCloud: My Photo Stream troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3989
Cheers,
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First make sure iCloud and Photo Stream are installed on your PC. Connect the iPad (or iPhone) to your PC with the USB cable and start iTunes on your PC. Once your iPad/iPhone shows up under "Devices" in the sidebar (which you may have to enable), click it. Then click "Photos" at the top of the iTunes screen on your PC. Check the "Sync Photos from" box, and then under that, click "Selected folders." (Ignore the pulldown menu to the right of "Sync Photos from" -- the important thing is to tick "Selected folders.") A pane should open up below that with a list of folders including "Photo Stream." Choose that and then at the bottom of the screen click Sync. This worked for my Windows 7 box.

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First make sure iCloud and Photo Stream are installed on your PC. Connect the iPad (or iPhone) to your PC with the USB cable and start iTunes on your PC. Once your iPad/iPhone shows up under "Devices" in the sidebar (which you may have to enable), click it. Then click "Photos" at the top of the iTunes screen on your PC. Check the "Sync Photos from" box, and then under that, click "Selected folders." (Ignore the pulldown menu to the right of "Sync Photos from" -- the important thing is to tick "Selected folders.") A pane should open up below that with a list of folders including "Photo Stream." Choose that and then at the bottom of the screen click Sync. This worked for my Windows 7 box.

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I've noticed that Photo Stream does not match my Camera Roll. Often, many of my photos that I take (in the same session of shooting images) will not make it into Photo Stream (if any get in).
I just experimented again at home all connected to my home, Wi-Fi network. Weirdly enough, when I take pictures, the new photos correctly land in the Camera Roll but they don't go into the Photo Stream on my iPhone.
Instead, what gets added to the Photo Stream are images that I've added via the web, emails from others, or WeChat. It starts with the most recently added image and goes backwards in time, adding increasingly earlier added images from these sources -- but not the camera roll.
For each new shot taken by the camera, an old previously imported image will add into Photo Stream.
Photo Stream is ON on both my iPhone 5s and MacBook Pro -- all have the most up-to-date OS releases for OSX and iOS.
I've even turned OFF the Photo Stream on my iOS device, cleared out the old Photo Stream, and then turned it back on.
Any help on this strange behavior would be greatly appreciated!
Chris

FIXED!
Okay, I had tech help stumped! He'd never heard of this problem.
Solution:
- I had to connect my 4s to iTunes.
- Select photos tab and then click on: Select sync photos/ Select albums and events, but DON'T SELECT ANY ALBUMS.
- Then sync/apply to iPhone. This sync the photos with no albums selected. After sync your phone's photos should only the camera roll, no albums showing.
- Then reselect a couple of albums, sync, check photos on iPhone to make sure they display correctly. Then load the rest.
Hope this helps someone in the future!
-Dooki

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