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prvt.donut

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Jan 1, 2008
525
26
I am worried about using photo stream, when it was first launched, I enabled it and lost a bunch of photos from my wedding anniversary.

That sucked!

Immediately turned it off after that.

Has that been reported by anyone else? I think the photos and
Videos were taken from the lock screen camera for those 'on the spot quick photos and videos'. I remember checking them out and being happy at the time, but the next morning, they were gone!

I was expecting them to have been stored and saved on the apple servers but I never saw them again, I only found a thumbnail of an image when using the file browser software to search the iPhone file structure.

Another question is that apple says the photos stay in the photo stream for
30 days, what happens after that?

Do they auto save to iPhoto?

Finally, what's the point of upgrading my cloud storage? Photo stream doesn't count, and why would I care about my apps being backed up?

Oh! And what happens to video I take, non cloud, they just load into iPhoto during a sync. But if I recall correctly, they don't load into the photo stream!
 

GR33NIE

macrumors 6502
Jul 9, 2008
283
3
UK
I am worried about using photo stream, when it was first launched, I enabled it and lost a bunch of photos from my wedding anniversary.

That sucked!

Immediately turned it off after that.

Has that been reported by anyone else? I think the photos and
Videos were taken from the lock screen camera for those 'on the spot quick photos and videos'. I remember checking them out and being happy at the time, but the next morning, they were gone!

I was expecting them to have been stored and saved on the apple servers but I never saw them again, I only found a thumbnail of an image when using the file browser software to search the iPhone file structure.

Another question is that apple says the photos stay in the photo stream for
30 days, what happens after that?

Do they auto save to iPhoto?

Finally, what's the point of upgrading my cloud storage? Photo stream doesn't count, and why would I care about my apps being backed up?

Oh! And what happens to video I take, non cloud, they just load into iPhoto during a sync. But if I recall correctly, they don't load into the photo stream!

They won't auto save to iPhoto you have to drag them off of PhotoStream to permanently save I believe, after the 30 days they are gone. 30 days being the timeframe you should do something with them e.g. back up

- Video is not uploaded to PhotoStream, photos only
- The point of upgrading storage is because some people have a ton of apps across multiple devices which will easily use up 5GB
- I would back up Apps, if you ever lose your device and get another one it restores everything from the cloud
 

MonkeySee....

macrumors 68040
Sep 24, 2010
3,858
437
UK
Videos don't back up to iCloud just photos.

They do auto save to iPhoto. Will probably list an Event like "February Photo Stream" or "January Photo Stream".
 
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