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Hi all. Apologies if this has been asked before but I couldn't find this exact problem I'm having.
I have a few galleries that I sync to and it all works fine except if I ad to a bunch of photos it seems to then upload everything all over again. So if I have a gallery with say 30 photos in it and using Aperture I add another 5, it will synchronise and then upload 35 optimised images. It takes quite a long time to do this, and it all seems a bit pointless.
Am I missing something here or is this just a bug? I'm on the latest version of everything too btw.

It's a bug. I have an issue where if you cancel in the middle of these endless syncs it only loads a portion of the photos. For example the gallery contains 50, I add 5, get tired of waiting for the upload of 55, when I check later I only have 25 photos left in the gallery. I assume they delete everything before loading everything.
Notice also every time you select the gallery object (not the radio icon) it does a full update, changes the order to manual and the key photo to first in the list.

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