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Why does it take iCloud photo library so long (3 days & counting) to move 22 pictures from the Cloud to my new iMac? #1

I have a very large photo library that are stored on my new 27-inch iMac (3TBHD) of over 34,000 photos and 799 videos (totalling 223 gigabytes) but it is taking forever (now going on 4 days) to get the only photos I am missing from the iCloud library – just 19 iPhone screenshots & 3 iPhone photos – down on to my iMac. Three days ago, I migrated all data from my latest backup of my old iMac to my new machine and it took only 2 hours to move 800 gigabytes which was impressive. Next, I began the process of getting Photos in gear, starting a standard repair/rebuild of my Photos Library which also took just 5 minutes. Then – we are talking 3 days ago – Photos starting sorting the photos I have on my iMac with what is on my iCloud photo library. The number of photos on my iMac and the iCloud photo library are virtualy the same. The only difference is that my iMac is still waiting for those 19 iPhone screenshots and 2 iPhone pictures that are up on the Cloud and that were were taken in the 3 days since I got my new iMac.

Those missing photos are on the iCloud, they are on my old iMac, my MacBook Pro, my iPad and my iPhone, but they are not on my new iMac yet, because, as a Senior Level Apple Tech explained, because iCloud has to go through its photo library and compare it to the one in Apple Photos first to make sure the libraries are the same, and then and only then will it move down the 22 missing photos from the iCloud to my iMac.

The Mac Photos app works well for most users, but occasionally a variety of hiccups can be encountered when interacting with photo libraries, ranging from crashes, to hanging on Photos app launch, a failed import, thumbnails missing from an image library, pictures missing from a library that was imported, or even a completely empty Photos app. Now you will see all kinds of files. Find the one called ‘Originals’ and click on it. Now you will see a new folder with a lot of years. Click on a year, then a month, and you will see all the pictures from your iPhoto library from that month. You can then open the photos one by one, copy them, or do what you like with each. Copy the library to an external drive with sufficient free storage and set it as the primary Photos library, then enable iCloud Photo Library, and, after syncing, copy it back to the main drive. The iCloud Photos Library syncs all your Camera Roll photos to the iCloud driver so that you can access them on all your devices. If you fail to sync photos, here are some quick solutions to fix the 'iCloud photos not syncing' issue. Tap on 'Settings' your name 'iCloud.' (For iOS 10.2 or earlier, simply tap on 'Settings' 'iCloud. Regardless, to create a new System Photo Library, first open the location where your current system library is and drag it to a backup spot if you want to keep it (recommended). Drag it to the Trash if you don’t. Next, open Photos, which will spur the following prompt. Click “Open Other” to either find an existing library or create a.

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It is really madness the way the iCloud Library was designed to work with the Photos Library. Even the so-called ”progress message” at the bottom of the Photos “Moments” screen announce that it is either ”uploading” “downloading” & “adding” photos between my iMac and iCloud is misleading. The tech told me that it wasn’t really downloading, uploading and adding pictures but merely sorting and matching to see if what you have on your iMac matches what is on the iCloud library. When I started this 3 days ago, there were 42,000 items being sorted, 24 hours later the number dropped to 36,000, today we are down to 11,000.

My point is, when the numbers of pictures stored on your iMac Photos library and the iCloud photos library are essential identical, why does it take the iCloud so damn long to get them on to my new machine. Why wasn’t the program designed to prioritize getting the newest pictures down from the Cloud to your iMac, and then finish by comparing both libraries. The iCloud & Apple Photos Library system is really a badly broken, extremely frustrating system.

This among other issues with any cloud platform is a reason why I turned off iCloud Photo Library.. I just keep the Photo Stream option on as it makes syncing my iOS device photos to my Mac easier.. if I see the pictures have not synced through Photo Stream for some time, I just plug the device and hit import..

Maybe , if these are a lot of files in the iCloud backup , the scan program will take long time when you restore deleted data ,unless you have other backup files , you can extract data from backup files not use third-party tools to scan your phone ,

As i know ,these are some methods on Google ,like the iPhoto tool can be used to recover deleted pictures , but it can take long time to do ,

Actually I prefer to moving photos from my iPhone instead of iCloud to my Mac, it will be easier and I can free some space of my iPhone, use this tool: https://www.mobikin.com/free-assistant-for-ios-mac/

hello, my friend, usually, how long it takes iCloud backup depends on three factors: The amount of data that you need to back up on your iPhone/iPad, the speed of your Wi-Fi and device conditions. If you are complaining that Why wasn’t the program designed to prioritize getting the newest pictures down from the Cloud to your iMac and then finish by comparing both libraries. I recommend you use a third-party backup tool to help you reduce the backup time.

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I know that's a shocking headline, but that certainly seems to what they're saying for a certain group of users (red emphasis added):

By default, your System Photo Library is stored in the Pictures folder on your Mac, but you can move it to another location on your Mac or store it on an external storage device.
WARNING: If a Photos library is located on an external drive, don’t back up the drive using Time Machine. The permissions for your Photos library may conflict with those for the Time Machine backup

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Jan 23 2018 update: Thanks to reader Brian for commenting below that Apple has updated this page with much clearer wording. It now reads (emphasis added):

If a Photos library is located on an external drive, don’t use Time Machine to store a backup on that external drive. The permissions for your Photos library may conflict with those for the Time Machine backup.

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That just means you shouldn't use the same external drive for both your Photos library and as a destination drive in Time Machine. This makes much more sense; continue reading only if you care about my feelings on the original incorrect wording.

That's taken from the System Photo Library overview, part of Photos' help. In a nutshell, Apple recommends that if you've moved the System Photo Library to an external drive—as nearly anyone who takes lots of pictures will have done, given space-limited solid-state internal drives—you do not use Time Machine on that drive. Not just 'don't back up the Photos Library folder with Time Machine,' but 'don't back up the entire drive with Time Machine.' Yikes!

Think about that for a bit…this affects anyone with limited internal storage space who has their photos stored on an external drive. And in today's Mac world, that could be a lot of people—while you can configre some machines with up to 2TB of solid state storage (and iMacs with bigger Fusion drive