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I've had iCloud for some time; I have Photostream enabled for iPhoto. Up until last week all was fine. Tonight I opened iPhoto on my Macbook & saw that photos taken today, and the past three days, had not been imported into Photostream on the Macbook.
The photos do show in Photostream on my iPad. Just not in the Photostream of my Macbook.
I confess to being frustrated by Photostream in general (and annoyed in general at the loss of MobileMe). But is there some way I can manually import the missing Photostream photos into Photostream on my Macbook? Or do I wait for the iCloud gods to smile upon me and magically transport them in time?

I had the same problem. To work around it I just turned off photostream in iPhoto, and then turned it back on. My most recent photos, which weren't showing up before, finally showed up.

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