Pics from iCloud update question

New photos made with my iPhone are transferred to iCloud almost immediately. But how is this transfer being triggered to my Mac?
I wanted to send an e-mail including a pic I had made before on my iPhone. It was in the Cloud already. But it did not appear in my Mail.app media window. It seems I have to start up iPhoto to trigger the pic transfer. Which is annoying.
Is that true?
Thank you!

Yes it's true. WHat's going on is that for the image to appear in the Media Browser iPhoto needs to write to the xml file that governs that, and it can only do that when running.
Regards
TD

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