I’m obviously running my own reality here! Sorry for reading what you’d not written ...
I had over 10,000 photos and felt that 79p a month to fit them in to iCloud was worth it and so far I really love being able to browse all my photos on my iPad. However, I digress … I wonder if you moved, rather than copied, the photos onto the Google drive and somehow Photos is left with aliases to the originals and if Google Photos app isn’t live then the originals are no longer accessible. I’m guessing here as I’ve never even looked at Google Photos! One thing that may shed some light is to launch Photos, select a photo and then click on your File menu. If the menu item “Show Referenced File in Finder” is black then Photos contains aliases to photos stored elsewhere whereas if it’s greyed out then the Photo is stashed in Photos’ library. Stephen "This [Assange] episode teaches some lessons. Essential among them is the fact that analysis in the corporate media is now crippled beyond repair, its credibility a smoking wreck.” ~ Simon Wood, daily99998271.blogspot.jp > On 9 Feb 2016, at 14:09, PHILIP TOMLINSON <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Stephen, > Thanks for your advice. I never ticked the option to upload all my photos > onto iCloud, just the "Photo Stream". I have a lot of photos (6,783) and > didn't want to pay for extra storage. > Actually I can now access my photos in "Photos"again but I don't feel that I > completely understand what's happened. Mac "Photos" seems to work again if > "Google Photos" app is live on my menu bar. Do you think that the Google app > has relocated all the files of my photos? If I look at Photos Library on my > Mac it shows 37.08 GB used. > Phil > > > On Tuesday, 9 February 2016, 13:21, Stephen Watson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Ooooo errrrrr. > > I'd start by logging into your iCloud account and seeing what photos are in > there - if they all appear then I'd think that your Photos are safely on > Apple's servers. If you start photos with the alt/option key down it asks if > you want to rebuild your Mac Photos library so I suppose you could try that. > > When I used the iCloud Photo Library I loaded up everything from my Mac > photos onto iCloud, which took about a week. Then switched it on on my iPad > and I asked if I wanted to merge my pics as I still had some in the iPad's > camera roll that weren't in iCloud. I said yes to that and they were added to > the pot and now they're all on iCloud and iPad. > > I'm sure others will have sensible suggestions. :-) > > Stephen > > We are Costa of Borg. We will add your vibrancy and distinctiveness to our > own. Your town and your customers will service us. Resistance is futile. > > On 9 Feb 2016, at 11:41, PHILIP TOMLINSON <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> >> Dear Friends I really need advice. >> This morning I tried to open “Photos” on my iMac and, although its name >> appears on the menu bar, no screen appears. If I click on “photos” in the >> “window” menu, a screen does appear but it is blank and empty. Most of the >> other menu items are greyed out. >> Several things that I did recemtly may possibly have a bearing on this >> awful, terrible event:- >> 1. I installed “BeetleCam” duplicate cleaner first on my iPad, then on my >> Mac and used it a couple of times. All seemed well. >> 2. I purchased some file space on Google Photos and backed up all of my >> pictures in Photos onto it. It finished backing up yesterday. All seemed >> well. This morning Photos is empty!!! >> I still have all my pictures in the iOS version of Photos on my iPad, thank >> God, but I worry that if I sync my iPad with my iMac, they too will >> disappear…. All my pictures are available on Google’s “Photos” but the >> quality isn’t as good as on Mac Photos. >> I want my Photos back!! >> >> Phil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
