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[mavis]

For the second time in less than a month, my iPhone X has decided to re-upload my entire iCloud Photo Library, which is downloaded in full-res (I got the 256GB iPhone specifically for this reason - to be able to store my entire library on the device) and despite having a 100Mbit fiber connection (I have an Orbi wifi system, with full bandwidth available throughout my house) it is, once again, progressing at a snail's pace. My iMac's Photos app is unaffected, and my iPad Pro (also 256MB; full-res pics downloaded) is fine as well. The iPhone, however, continues to have this problem. I've restored, but yesterday it decided to do it again - is this happening to anyone else?

edit: it keeps alternating between "Upload Complete" and "Uploading 20,xxx Items." Since I started composing this post, it's done about 100 items. At this rate, it's going to take several days (again) to finish. In the meantime, nothing is synced to the iPhone - edits, crops, new albums - they all sync just fine between the iPad and iMac, but not the iPhone. Any ideas?

 

[mavis]

OK, a quick update.

After waiting about 5 hours for less than 1% of my photo library to be re-uploaded, I disabled iCloud Photo Library on my iPhone, rebooted, confirmed that it was still disabled, and then began deleting all of my photos from the phone, so that I could re-enable iCloud Photo Library and start over. Unfortunately, photos cannot be deleted all at once (at least, not as many as I had on my phone) so after selecting 1500-2000 at a time, I was able to chip away at it over the course of 20 minutes or so, and get them all deleted. And then I deleted my (now empty) folders.

I then re-enabled iCloud Photo Library, and waited for the pictures to start syncing. And ... they did! Except, no albums synced.

Checking my iMac, MacBook and iPad Pro, I found that the albums were missing on those devices as well. No worries, because I had the foresight to also assign keywords for all of the pictures in the albums, just in case this sort of thing ever happened ... except, the keywords have all been removed from my pictures as well!

This is un****ingbelievable. After spending HOURS UPON HOURS carefully categorizing, keywording, and grouping 20,000+ images and videos, iCloud Photo Library has completely nuked all of that metadata, and left me back at square one. So now I'm paying $9.99/month for yet another Apple product, one that works like ****. /rant

 

[4492865]

I have seen that too. You can delete the photos, and that is fine, they won't be deleted from iCloud, but for some stupid, dumb and weird reason that only Craig knows, it you delete albums after disabling photo library and enable it again, those albums get deleted everywhere.

 

[BrianBaughn]

My current thought is that one can’t currently rely on any database-based cloud syncing service for photos in anything more than a general way. Your post is good information and reinforces my decision to avoid iCloud Photo Library.

 

[UnifiedMelody]

OK, a quick update.

After waiting about 5 hours for less than 1% of my photo library to be re-uploaded, I disabled iCloud Photo Library on my iPhone, rebooted, confirmed that it was still disabled, and then began deleting all of my photos from the phone, so that I could re-enable iCloud Photo Library and start over. Unfortunately, photos cannot be deleted all at once (at least, not as many as I had on my phone) so after selecting 1500-2000 at a time, I was able to chip away at it over the course of 20 minutes or so, and get them all deleted. And then I deleted my (now empty) folders.

I then re-enabled iCloud Photo Library, and waited for the pictures to start syncing. And ... they did! Except, no albums synced.

Checking my iMac, MacBook and iPad Pro, I found that the albums were missing on those devices as well. No worries, because I had the foresight to also assign keywords for all of the pictures in the albums, just in case this sort of thing ever happened ... except, the keywords have all been removed from my pictures as well!

This is un****ingbelievable. After spending HOURS UPON HOURS carefully categorizing, keywording, and grouping 20,000+ images and videos, iCloud Photo Library has completely nuked all of that metadata, and left me back at square one. So now I'm paying $9.99/month for yet another Apple product, one that works like ****. /rant

they screwed up icloud photo library so bad lol. i used to multiple select without much issue just shift click and shift click easily... now it's like back to square old one.

thinking about just ditching iCloud photo library & using itunes sync altogether with dropbox for hard copy back up [camera upload] & Google photos for high quality unlimited cloud image storage