iBooks Not Synching on New iMac

[Dave297]

Greetings - I've just purchased a new 27" iMac. I restored the new iMac from a backup that I had from my previous 27" iMac (which I'll still be using). That process went well. Both computers are synched with iCloud which has also worked well with the exception of iBooks. My iBooks library never populated with my books. I am, of course, signed in with my Apple ID, updated my credit card information, and "Checked for Available Downloads'.

As I mentioned before, all the other apps are synching fine; Photos, Calendar, Mail, Contacts. Just no luck with iBooks. Any ideas?

 

[chscag]

Try signing out of iCloud and then back in. Sometimes this gets the iCloud syncing back on schedule.

 

[Dave297]

chscag - thank you for that suggestion. Signing out of iCloud and then signing back in did the trick. iBooks is now populated with my books.

Unfortunately, I discovered after signing back in to iCloud that, inexplicably, iCloud Photo Library had been turned off, which I definitely didn't want. I immediately turned it back on but not soon enough apparently. Now it says it's uploading my 50,000 photos already on my new iMac to iCloud, which are already there. I'm not sure this is actually happening however. When I go to Activity Monitor > Network, Data Sent/sec. values are only a few KB so maybe it's just running a file comparison. If it was truly uploading photos to iCloud it would reading about 1.5 MB/sec. based on my previous experience. But still very frustrating.

Thanks again for the iBooks help.