{"id":20322,"date":"2018-01-26T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T21:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20322"},"modified":"2018-01-26T16:51:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T21:51:05","slug":"icloud-photo-library-re-uploading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/26\/icloud-photo-library-re-uploading\/","title":{"rendered":"iCloud Photo Library Re-uploading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/17757\">Adam C. Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/17757\"><p>Messages wasn&rsquo;t getting or sending messages, Wi-Fi calling wasn&rsquo;t working, and after upgrading to 10.13.3, I was unable to enable auto-unlock with my Apple Watch. To solve these problems, I turned iCloud off and back on. Despite the iCloud preference pane throwing an ominous error, the problems did indeed disappear.<\/p>\n<p>However, there&rsquo;s a nasty side effect of turning iCloud off and back on: iCloud Photo Library needs to re-upload all your photos. It does this in order to compare the library&rsquo;s contents to the synchronization &ldquo;truth&rdquo; at iCloud. Fair enough, except that this process can take days, depending on the size of your Photos library and the speed of your Internet connection. Bad Apple! We don&rsquo;t see that sort of poor performance with Dropbox or Google Drive, and this behavior is both unnecessary and driving people away from iCloud Photo Library.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that there are quite a few actions that can cause your entire Photos library to be re-uploaded to iCloud[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Why should Photos say at one point that my library is 113.03 GB, and then 94.6 GB at another? And do I have 30,875 photos, 30,879 photos, or some larger number that caused the iCloud progress count at the bottom of the Photos screen to report that it had 33,726 items to go, even though adding the number of photos and videos together never results in a number higher than 31,471. Come on, Apple, this is basic math, and discrepancies like this reduce user confidence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkville.com\/bad-apple-1-icloud-photo-library-re-uploading-tidbits\/\">Kirk McElhearn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.kirkville.com\/bad-apple-1-icloud-photo-library-re-uploading-tidbits\/\"><p>Adam suggests that not all the data is uploaded, but I watched it cripple my internet access for a week, since I could only allow it to upload overnight.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam C. Engst: Messages wasn&rsquo;t getting or sending messages, Wi-Fi calling wasn&rsquo;t working, and after upgrading to 10.13.3, I was unable to enable auto-unlock with my Apple Watch. To solve these problems, I turned iCloud off and back on. Despite the iCloud preference pane throwing an ominous error, the problems did indeed disappear. 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