• Photos and syncing . . .

    From RJH@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 11 09:58:24 2022
    Does anyone know what neeeds to heppen for (i)Mac Photos to sync with iCloud? Sometimes it happens near instantly, other times it can take days. At the moment, it's reporting 'Last Synced Friday' (today's Sunday), and in no apparent rush to do anything soon.

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    Cheers, Rob, Sheffield UK

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  • From Martin S Taylor@21:1/5 to RJH on Wed Dec 28 11:19:44 2022
    On 11 Dec 2022, RJH wrote
    (in article <tn49jv$1tp3g$[email protected]>):

    Does anyone know what neeeds to heppen for (i)Mac Photos to sync with iCloud? Sometimes it happens near instantly, other times it can take days. At the moment, it's reporting 'Last Synced Friday' (today's Sunday), and in no apparent rush to do anything soon.

    Simlarly with Contacts. I've been on the phone to Apple support trying to
    work out why my Contacts weren't synching. It turns out they *are* synching, but sometimes it's nearly instant, at other times it takes the best part of
    an hour.

    MST

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  • From Andy Hewitt@21:1/5 to Martin S Taylor on Wed Dec 28 14:04:06 2022
    On 28/12/2022 11:19, Martin S Taylor wrote:
    On 11 Dec 2022, RJH wrote
    (in article <tn49jv$1tp3g$[email protected]>):

    Does anyone know what neeeds to heppen for (i)Mac Photos to sync with iCloud?
    Sometimes it happens near instantly, other times it can take days. At the
    moment, it's reporting 'Last Synced Friday' (today's Sunday), and in no
    apparent rush to do anything soon.

    Simlarly with Contacts. I've been on the phone to Apple support trying to work out why my Contacts weren't synching. It turns out they *are* synching, but sometimes it's nearly instant, at other times it takes the best part of an hour.

    Yeah, it can be a bit random as to how long it can take. One thing I
    have learnt with using iCloud syncing stuff, is patience. It's the
    biggest single fix for most things that seem to not work as expected
    (expected rather than documented).

    Certainly with Photos, it can take seconds, or many hours, sometimes
    even days if you've done a lot of work in a short space of time (like
    add a lot of photos with locations and faces in them). It also depends
    on the size of the library too (60,000 images here, around 600GB).

    It's not always simply syncing, often it's curating stuff in the
    background too, and all that just slows it down. Eventually, it usually
    does catch up with everything.

    Some of it can depend on the performance of the devices, some depends on
    the network speeds (and reliability), some of it depends on what's
    happening up in iCloud itself, and then propagating down to the devices.


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    Andy H

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  • From Chris Ridd@21:1/5 to Andy Hewitt on Fri Dec 30 06:39:59 2022
    On 28/12/2022 14:04, Andy Hewitt wrote:
    On 28/12/2022 11:19, Martin S Taylor wrote:
    On 11 Dec 2022, RJH wrote
    (in article <tn49jv$1tp3g$[email protected]>):

    Does anyone know what neeeds to heppen for (i)Mac Photos to sync with
    iCloud?
    Sometimes it happens near instantly, other times it can take days. At
    the
    moment, it's reporting 'Last Synced Friday' (today's Sunday), and in no
    apparent rush to do anything soon.

    Simlarly with Contacts. I've been on the phone to Apple support trying to
    work out why my Contacts weren't synching. It turns out they *are*
    synching,
    but sometimes it's nearly instant, at other times it takes the best
    part of
    an hour.

    Yeah, it can be a bit random as to how long it can take. One thing I
    have learnt with using iCloud syncing stuff, is patience. It's the
    biggest single fix for most things that seem to not work as expected (expected rather than documented).

    With contacts and calendar, it is very helpful to be able to go to
    icloud.com and look at what's there as it is effectively the master copy
    of the data. At least it narrows down the problem.

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    Chris

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