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Photostream storage time?
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Me too. The 30 day limit probably applies to heavy users. After all no one can start a class action suit because you misrepresented your ToS by offering MORE than you said.
I'm pretty sure that the 30 days means that the photos are available to be synced to your photo stream for 30 days. It's more than enough time since our computers are always online, however, if your device didn't have access to the internet for 30 days after a picture was taken, it would not show up in your photo stream.
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I had a similar issue except my iPhone deleted photo stream pics after a month, but both my iMac and MBP kept photos that were up to 3 months old.
Im now testing it again since iPhoto was updated.
I had a similar issue except my iPhone deleted photo stream pics after a month, but both my iMac and MBP kept photos that were up to 3 months old.
Im now testing it again since iPhoto was updated.
I believe this is normal as the Mac/PC should store the photos downloaded from Photostream indefinitely, without restrictions. Only in the cloud and on the idevices these restrictions should apply.
I don't think so but could be wrong. I believe that the photos will only be stored on the device that they were taken on or were originally on. So if you take a pic with your iPhone after it's deleted from Photo Stream it will only be on your iPhone (not your Mac) unless you copied it. Of course I still have all of mine in Photo Stream so I can't verify but in iPhoto I only seem them in Photo Stream Events. So one Photo Stream delete the photos it would seem that the iPhoto Event would also be removed (although it may remain)
.I don't think so but could be wrong. I believe that the photos will only be stored on the device that they were taken on or were originally on. So if you take a pic with your iPhone after it's deleted from Photo Stream it will only be on your iPhone (not your Mac) unless you copied it. Of course I still have all of mine in Photo Stream so I can't verify but in iPhoto I only seem them in Photo Stream Events. So one Photo Stream delete the photos it would seem that the iPhoto Event would also be removed (although it may remain)
I'm using iCloud for PC and it's so far downloaded all the photos from all my idevices.
Ditto on that here. I'm using iCloud on my PC and all of my photos ar downloaded to my pictures folder. Some photos go back to december. They only seem to delete on my iPhone.
And that's how it should be. On my iphone however they go back to December. Maybe it's because I only have a total of 150 of pics taken (i.e. nowhere close the 1k limit)?
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Well, you can set the computer (iPhoto) to automatically add photo stream pics to the library, so I don't see why I'd need my computer to keep iCloud photos that aren't in true sync with my iPhone/iDevice?
As of now, if you delete a photo from photo stream, it gets deleted on everything. So conventional wisdom would suggest if the 30 day window expires a certain picture, it should do so across all apple products.
I want all my devices to stay in sync.
Well, you can set the computer (iPhoto) to automatically add photo stream pics to the library, so I don't see why I'd need my computer to keep iCloud photos that aren't in true sync with my iPhone/iDevice?
As of now, if you delete a photo from photo stream, it gets deleted on everything. So conventional wisdom would suggest if the 30 day window expires a certain picture, it should do so across all apple products.
I want all my devices to stay in sync.