Hi Callum, Glad to hear you have your photos synced with iPhoto. Once you get the pics in iPhoto they are saved on your computer (as you probably know) so you don't really need to proceed with saving the photos on all your portable devices as well. If you do also want to save Photo Stream photos to the camera roll on an iPhone or an iPad there is a bit of clicking involved but with the correct sequence you can reduce the click count to around one click per photo, and seeing there is a maximum of 100 photos in Photo Stream that is not too onerous.
For an iPad, for instance, you can proceed as follows 1. Open up the Photos app and select the Photo Stream tab at the top of the page. 2. Click the share button. Its icon is a square with a curved arrow exiting up and to the right. 3. Click each photo of interest, or in your case all the photos. As you touch each a check mark will appear on it. 4. Click the Save button to save the selected photos to Camera Roll. I'll post some thoughts later on your Photo Stream mismatch. I have seen something similar but not as extreme as in your case. Do you have more than one Apple ID? Regards, Carlo On 01/06/2012, at 19:00 , Callum Prior wrote: > I've run a test with that method and it's worked a treat. > > On my iPhone I resaved a couple of photos from Photostream to the camera > roll. For some reason I thought you couldn't attach an iOS device to the > iMac while they were set to sync to the Cloud, and I'm still confused as to > why each device appears to be seeing a different stream. > > My next question is if there's a way to mass select and save photos in > Photostream on my iPad/iPhone to the camera roll, or do I have a lot of > tapping ahead of me? > > Thanks again! > > Callum > > > On 01/06/2012, at 6:47 PM, cm wrote: > >> Hi Callum, >> >> One way is to connect your iPhone to a Mac with a docking cable and then >> open iPhoto. You will be prompted to save the photos as an event within >> iPhoto. Alternatively if you do not own iPhoto you can use Image Capture >> which comes with the operating system. >> >> C >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On 01/06/2012, at 18:37, Callum Prior <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thanks Carlo, >>> >>> That bit I get, but I don't understand why each device is showing a >>> different number of photos available from the cloud, or where the >>> duplicates came from. Nor how to dump the photos from each device back into >>> the iMac. >>> >>> Cheers! >>> >>> >>> On 01/06/2012, at 6:29 PM, cm wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Callum, >>>> >>>> This could turn into a long thread but I will start the ball rolling by >>>> saying that iCloud Photo Stream stores at most 1000 photos and only stores >>>> your new photos for 30 days. So you might find iCloud has significantly >>>> fewer photos than the devices it is used to sync. To preserve a photo from >>>> Photo Stream you need to download it to a local device, be it a Mac, >>>> iPhone or iPad. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Carlo >>>> >>>> On 01/06/2012, at 18:19 , Callum Prior wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>> >>>>> Last month I had a massive technological failure resulting in the loss of >>>>> my main drive and backups. Data recovery hasn't gone that well so I'm in >>>>> the process of rebuilding everything I need. >>>>> >>>>> At the moment the only record of my photos exists in iCloud and in the >>>>> camera rolls and folders of my iPhone and iMac. What's confusing me is >>>>> that they all show different numbers of photos when they should be >>>>> synced. A fair number of duplicates have also appeared. >>>>> >>>>> Is there a way to resync all my devices or push the photos to the iMac >>>>> without losing anything? >>>>> >>>>> Cheers! >>>>> >>>>> Callum >>>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>>> >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
