iCloud photos sync - photos there but where are the folders/albums?

[bribri99]

So I decided to take the dive and use icloud photos sync and sync my entire library from my photos app on my mac to the cloud and then to my phone.

My question though, I see my photos on my iphone populating, but I don't see the folders I used to organize my photos in the mac iphotos program.

Is there something wrong or is that going to happen when everything finished syncing? It's weird that they won't be organizing it as it goes.

I don't want to spend days uploading the pictures and then having to delete it all again due to a bad sync.

Thanks.

 

[JHov!]

So I decided to take the dive and use icloud photos sync and sync my entire library from my photos app on my mac to the cloud and then to my phone.

My question though, I see my photos on my iphone populating, but I don't see the folders I used to organize my photos in the mac iphotos program.

Is there something wrong or is that going to happen when everything finished syncing? It's weird that they won't be organizing it as it goes.

I don't want to spend days uploading the pictures and then having to delete it all again due to a bad sync.

Thanks.

You need to use the Photos app, as opposed to iPhoto. iPhoto is no longer supported. Simply open the Photos app and if you have not previously utilized the App, it will populate with the iPhotos Library including folders. Once this library syncs with iCloud you'll see your folders on the phone.

 

[bribri99]

Sorry I do use the photos app not iphoto. Sorry typo. In the photos app I don't see the folders yet but I see photos coming in. is it because the folder structure doesn't happen until the end of the sync?

 

[itsmilo]

Yeah the folders appear last

 

[bribri99]

Thank youuuu!

 

[IowaLynn]

I learned that with Google and MS OneDrive that folders merely point to the target photo that is contained in the massive cloud library. All your folder likely has even with apple is a link. You can have multiple links, but just one of the actual image or file.

Due to errors and changing naming conventions I had old file photos with acceptable names for today's conventions - special characters being one. Duplicate names (different folders).