Hi Callum, I think I may be able to explain what is happening here but it is only my best guess. My understanding is that photos in Photo Stream will remain on the iCloud server for 30 days to give all your devices a chance to sync. Each individual portable device will retain the 1000 most recent photos regardless of their age, and on your Mac you can configure iPhoto to retain Photo Stream photos indefinitely. A quick aside, I have iPhoto set to retain my Photo Stream and I strongly recommend that everyone do the same. This can be configured in iPhoto > Preferences > Photo Stream.
So you lost your main Mac, iPhoto repository and thus lost your continuous store of all Photo Stream photos. I could be wrong here but perhaps an iDevice Photo Stream contains the last 30 days photos in plus any any photos that were taken on that particular device whether they be older than 30 days or not. So at a guess, 294 of your photos where taken within the last 30 days and they are currently stored in iCloud and thus were restored to your Mac when you reactivated iCloud on your new install. Your iPhone has these 294 photos taken in the last 30 days plus all the other photos taken on your iPhone. This number would normally be trimmed to 1000, but since you have 844 photos in your iPhone Photo Stream, you have not yet hit that limit. So in principle your iPhone has all the photos ever taken on it (plus those taken on any device in the last 30 days). Lastly the iPad shares these 294 photos plus 188 other photos that were taken on the iPad itself. Again this number is less than 1000 so not photos have been lost. Let me know if these tallies with reality. :-) Regards, Carlo On 03/06/2012, at 17:52 , Callum Prior wrote: > Hi Ronni, > > Prior to my data loss on my iMac and iMac backup last month both my iPad and > iPhone were set to iCloud backup, and remain so, and everything functioned as > you, Carlo and Daniel describe below. > > My issues at the moment: > Given the data loss I've experienced on my iMac, I'm very keen to repopulate > it with the photos from both my iPhone and iPad. I tend not to delete photos > on either device unless I'm short of space, so I've a fairly decent backup > between the both of them. > iPhoto on the iMac is currently recognising a limited number of photos in the > photo stream as compared to both my iOS devices. As my understanding was that > the photo stream was a shared resource I'm unclear as to why each device is > showing a different number of photos available. It also hasn't recognised any > of the albums set up on both iOS devices. > The photo stream on all devices are also showing photos far older than 30 days > Duplicate photos have appeared, sometimes three or four copies of each once I > had tried the initial re-sync when my hard drive was replaced. > > iMac photostream = 294 photos > iPhone photostream = 844 photos > iPhoto on the iPad photo stream = 482 photos > iPad photo stream = 482 photos > > I have only one iTunes account. > > Cheers! > > > > On 02/06/2012, at 10:19 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> Hi Callum, >> >> Carlo, I'm sure you meant to type 1,000 photos not 100 :) >> Just to add a bit to Carlo's reply. >> >> Apple assumes most people will manage their photos on a Mac or PC, and as >> long as your computer is set up to use Photo Stream, it preserves all your >> downloaded photos indefinitely—no 30-day limit. >> You can then sync any photos you want to carry around to your iOS device. >> For example, you can create an album in iPhoto, and then, in iTunes, make >> sure your iOS device is configured to sync that album. >> >> However, if you don’t regularly use a Mac or PC that’s set up for iCloud, >> you should take the precaution of reviewing your Photo Stream photos every >> week or two and saving those that you want to keep in your Camera Roll (if >> they’re not already there) or another album. >> >> Callum, are you using 'iCloud Backup' on your iPhone, or are you backing up >> your iPhone using iTunes? >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> On 01/06/2012, at 9:38 PM, cm wrote: >> >>> 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>
