Aperture 3.5 and iPhoto 9.5 no longer connect to iCloud Photos

[maverick28]

Hello,

After reformatting the drive and reinstalling Mavericks, I cannot start using my Shared Streams, which require iCloud. Aperture tells me to sign into iCloud despite my being signed into it. I use two Apple ID accounts; however, until the drive reformation, I had no issues using the Shared Streams. I signed out of both accounts, then deleted and re-added them. All services operate in a normal mode. No matter what, Aperture shows the message that I need to sign in and opens the iCloud control pane.

Has anybody run into this problem?

 

[iPodNano3]

i am having the same problem with both aperture 3.5 and iphoto 9.5, although it has never worked for me in the past
could this be related to photo stream being shut down, or is that a seperate feature from the one you are trying to use?

 

[DurltazorOSXPower]

I downloaded it but the same problem. Maybe if I log out of iCloud on the machine and log in again it will work?

 

[maverick28]

It won't make a difference. The main issue lies in the parent application. A helper tool, the iCloud Photo Agent, an app inside the Aperture bundle, still runs, especially when you disable proxying. I confirmed that by uploading several photos from my iPhone to one of the shared iCloud streams. The agent picked up on this event and raised a notification on my Mac. The shared streams reside in the subfolder assets inside the iLifeAssetManagement folder of the ~/Library/Application Support folder. That's where Aperture put the downloaded photos. User-added photos have some murkiness about their location, however, there might be some relevant directories inside the Aperture Library file package.

These directories have an extremely complex structure. The process of uploading and downloading to/from iCloud involves unique ID generation, updating SQL databases and similar stuff going on in the background. It's impossible to work around it manually, especially if you don't know what you're doing and lack professional expertise.

 

[iPodNano3]

if we were able to get the "agree" button in the setup assistant to work while signing in with an apple id, will that fix most of our unable to log in issues, such as facetime, iphoto, and ibooks?

 

[DurltazorOSXPower]

It won't make a difference. The main issue lies in the parent application. A helper tool, the iCloud Photo Agent, an app inside the Aperture bundle, still runs, especially when you disable proxying. I confirmed that by uploading several photos from my iPhone to one of the shared iCloud streams. The agent picked up on this event and raised a notification on my Mac. The shared streams reside in the subfolder assets inside the iLifeAssetManagement folder of the ~/Library/Application Support folder. That's where Aperture put the downloaded photos. User-added photos have some murkiness about their location, however, there might be some relevant directories inside the Aperture Library file package.

These directories have an extremely complex structure. The process of uploading and downloading to/from iCloud involves unique ID generation, updating SQL databases and similar stuff going on in the background. It's impossible to work around it manually, especially if you don't know what you're doing and lack professional expertise.

interesting then unfortunately there is no way to continue with this joy... For me it doesn't make much difference but I would like it to be working