Icloud Photo Library Stuck Uploading Mac Sierra

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Aug 04, 2017  If this type if problem arises with the iCloud then there is one option to off the Toggle for the iCloud Photo Library from the phone settings and restart your device. If still there is any problem with it and the photo uploading on iCloud are stuck then consult with the Hotmail Customer Service get the permanent solution.

  1. ICloud Photo Library stuck on uploading. I turned iCloud Photo Library on and tried to upload it, even left it overnight thinking it'll be done. Well, it wasn't. When I go to icloud.com, I can see that not all my photos are there. But they are on the Photos app on my mac. And my iPhone is.
  2. ICloud Photo Library allows you to automatically upload and store your entire library in iCloud to access photos and videos from all your Apple devices or on the web. There are two ways to turn ON iCloud Photo Library on mac. Here are the steps to Turn ON iCloud Photo Library on.

If you want your Mac's photos to wirelessly sync to all your other iOS devices and computers, you want to set up iCloud Photo Library: Apple's photo sync service lets you back up your images on all your devices, as well as access them — online or offline — on said devices. If you're willing to pay for the extra iCloud storage space, you can store an incredible amount of photos and videos, all accessible at the touch of a button or multi-touch screen.

Here's how to set it up on your Mac and get everything configured to your liking!

How to set up iCloud Photo Library on your Mac

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  1. Launch the Photos app on your Mac.
  2. Select the Photos menu in the upper left corner of your screen.
  3. Go to Preferences.
  4. Click on the iCloud tab.

    Source: iMore

  5. Check 'iCloud Photos.' This will begin uploading any and all images you have stored in the Photos app to iCloud.

    Source: iMore

How to optimize your photo and video storage

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If you routinely shoot 4K video or high-quality images on your iPhone, iPad, or DSLR, you may run out of storage space fast. (I have a 1TB iMac, but also have almost a terabyte of 4K video stored in iCloud — it gets unwieldy, fast!) This is especially true if you have a Mac laptop with limited hard drive space: It's nice to look at your iPhone's gorgeous Portrait mode photos, but not necessarily always practical to store all of them locally.

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Thankfully, Apple offers an Optimize Storage option, which lets you store full-resolution photos and videos of only your most recently shot and accessed imagery; all older photos and videos are available to download via iCloud and are stored as low-resolution previews on your device to save space. You can switch between optimizing your Mac's photos storage or storing your full library locally: Here's how!

Note: If you plan on using Optimize Storage, we suggest having at least one device that stores your entire library locally (usually a Mac with a large local or external hard drive), so you have multiple backups of your photographs and video.

  1. Launch the Photos app on your Mac.
  2. Click Photos in the App menu in the upper left corner of your screen.
  3. Select Preferences from the drop-down menu.

    Source: iMore

  4. Click the iCloud tab.
  5. Click Optimize Mac Storage.

    Source: iMore

Full-resolution versions of your photos and videos will be uploaded to iCloud.

With the release of way back in 2011, Apple removed easy access to the user’s Library folder. There were still several to access or unhide the Library folder, but they weren’t immediately obvious or simple.Thankfully, recent versions of the Mac operating system make things easier. Although arguably well-intentioned, this change was frustrating for longtime Mac power users. Open library for other user mac.

Jan 12, 2020  With either the desktop or a Finder window as the frontmost application, hold down the option key and select the Go menu. The Library folder will be listed as one of the items in the Go menu. Select Library and a Finder window will open showing the contents of the Library folder. May 30, 2019  What is the Library folder on Mac? The Library folder In macOS is the system folder which keeps important support files, such as user account settings, preference files, containers, application scripts, caches, cookies, fonts and other service files. All these files help your Mac and applications to function as they should and work fast. What is the library on my mac. Sep 27, 2016  A lot of Mac tutorials mention the Library folder, which is where your macOS applications store things like settings and caches. Some settings can only be changed by editing files in the Library. But the Library is hidden by default.

How to share photos with iCloud Photo Library

Apple's photo service doesn't just provide online backups and sync for your images and video: The company also offers a free sharing service that allows you to send shared albums to friends and family (or create a publicly-shared website). Here's how to turn it on for your Mac.

Questions?

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Updated January 2020: Updated for macOS Catalina. Serenity Caldwell worked on a previous version of this post

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Hi everyone,
I'm having an issue that I'm completely stumped on and not sure how to proceed.
My mother-in-law ordered a new iPhone this last week so I thought it'd be a great opportunity to get her setup on iCloud photo library so we wouldn't have to do the usual backup/restore nonsense and could instead just sign in to the new phone and go. I was able to get all of the photos (about 7,000) uploaded from her old phone into iCloud no problem.
However, when I went to do the same to her Mac I ran into a somewhat frustrating issue. Her Photos library goes back to 2006 and has been migrated through multiple iterations of OS X and iPhoto. Her current setup is a late 2010 13' MBA with the latest Sierra. Her Photos.app library is 62.45GB and contains 18,000 photos/videos. We started the upload by turning on iCloud Library one night and the next morning it was stuck. We thought it might just be busy with a large video or the internet being slow so we waiting a few days but it still didn't move. I then brought the machine over to my house and attempted to kick-start it and ran into the same issue. The upload works until it gets to a certain state and then just stops. The progress bar will usually turn gray but sometimes it stays blue too.
I've tried turning the iCloud Photos Library option off and then on again. This restarted the upload process but again after a full night of uploading it gets stuck at the same position.
At this point I'm not sure what to do? Her longest video is only about 1:30 so it's not some super huge file in there. These are 99% iPhone snaps from over the years.
I've had a couple ideas of things I could try but I'm not sure how iCloud will handle it, so, some questions for the experts:
1. Is there anyway that I can find out what it's doing and why it's stuck? Like some sort of log or report?
2. Her new phone is 128GB so it has plenty of space. I've thought about using iTunes to cable-sync her entire Photos library over to her phone and then having the phone upload them to iCloud. Would there be any issue with this? What about all the duplicates that the Mac has already uploaded, will iCloud be smart enough to just keep 1 copy or will she end up getting duplicates downloaded back down to her Mac?
3. A similar idea, if the phone idea is dumb, what about exporting all of the photos to an external HD (or even just moving the Photos library file), opening it on a new user-account on my mac and then signing in to iCloud from that user account and trying to upload it from a different machine? I assume that if I do the 'export unmodified original' option in Photos.app that it would leave all the metadata intact so there'd be no downside to exporting them and importing them into a new library correct?

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