I bought a new iPad and I want to download all my photos from Photo Stream there. How do I do that?
Currently, it only syncs newly taken photos, but not all those taken in the past which are available in Photo Stream through my other devices.
IOS – How to download photos from Photo Stream onto a new iPad
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For the PC the way I got it to redownload the photo stream is first go to Control Panel then open up iCloud control panel.
Turn Photo Stream to off and close the iCloud control panel.
Just as a precaution, rename the old Photo Stream folder just to have a backup of what was in there before. This is up to you.
Then go to C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer and rename the MediaStream folder to something like MediaStream-old.
Then go back to Control Panel, open up iCloud control panel and renable the Photo Stream.
If you chose a custom download location for Photo Stream then you have to choose it again. The photos should start coming in, but just remember it will only grab the last 1,000 photos you have taken.
Thanks.
I have found a better way. One that doesn't involve resync'ing the entire stream.
- Quit iPhoto
- Open up Activity Monitor
- In the search field enter:
photostreamagent - Select all the
PhotoStreamAgentprocesses listed - Click the
Quit Processbutton - In the confirmation dialog that pops up click the
Quitbutton - Confirm that all the
PhotoStreamAgentprocesses are no longer alive by waiting for the Activity Monitor window to show no processes with that name - Re-start iPhoto
When you restart iPhoto it will re-start the PhotoStreamAgent process for your iPhoto session and kick off a new Photo Stream sync. You'll get your lastest pictures updated and you won't have to sit through a full re-sync of all your Photo Stream.
Update for Yosemite where the process name has changed to iCloud Photos. This is the what you want to kill:
Update for Yosemite 10.10.4 where the process name has changed to Photos Agent. This what you want to kill:
You can also do this, quickly, from the command line like so:
sudo pkill cloudphotosd
sudo killall cloudphotosd
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Best Answer
Photostream isn't really a synchronise mechanism, it's a push mechanism.
When you take a new photo on any iCloud enabled device with Photostream turned on, it will inform whatever gubbins sits in the cloud which then accepts an upload of that photo, and pushes it out to other devices which are also registered.
As such it can never cater for pictures that were taken before the device was registered to use the service. It has no way of performing the checking to see if you already have the photo, or options to perform what would effectively be 2 way sync at all, it has precisely no knowledge of your previous photos, and will merely start throwing down photos that are new after being registered to receive the updates.
So, in short, you can't. To give you an analogy, it's like iMessages. When you register a new device to receive messages, it picks up from that point onwards, and doesn't catch up on your previous history of messages.