Photos App - Slow iCloud Photos upload?

[Gizmotoy]

Is it typical for uploads to iCloud Photos to be really slow during the initial sync operation from the desktop Photos app? I have a ~500GB photo archive I'm bootstrapping, which is admittedly rather large. That said, I'm on symmetrical 1Gbps Up/Down fiber and can sustain that rate for hours. I pulled the entire 500GB archive back down from Google Photos in about 2-3 hours, but have been uploading to iCloud Photos nonstop for 5 days now and am only halfway done.

Interestingly, my iPhone had previously uploaded 80GB and finished in 2 days, which is a similar pace to what I'm now seeing on my desktop.

Is Apple throttling uploads? Will this be an ongoing problem, or is it related to this initial sync operation?

 

[stacie296]

For what it’s worth, if anybody is dealing with this issue on their Mac, it helped me to go into the energy saver under system preferences and then make sure that the hard drive does not go into sleep mode. As soon as I fixed that setting, things moved along just fine. It doesn’t matter if the display goes into sleep but you just don’t want the computer to go to sleep so you want to put it into the never category.