I suspect this is a Windows issue, but adding ucsm in case it's not. Apologies if it's OT.
My wife has the 50GB plan for iCloud, but now wants to have a copy of
all her photos on our home PC. Simple, I thought, install iCloud Photos
and let it do it's thing.
However, it seems to be stuck at ~12,000 photos sync'd and won't go any further. There should be ~19,000. The iCloud taskbar icon says there
~4800 downloading.
Also, File Manager is now practically unusable. Only a handful of photos
have thumbnails and right-clicking on any of them freezes file manager
which eventually crashes. It's a been like this for about a day and rebooted/restarted a few times.
CPU usage is minimal: icloud is using 25% and that's about it. There's
no network activity.
The overall aim is for her to able to look at photos on the PC (and
bigger screen) and to download and save some as local copies. We managed
to download a handful, but that's also not working now.
How to unstuck the process of syncing? And is File Manager just not up
to managing >12k files in one folder? Is there a way to optimise it? Are there alternative file managers that would be better?
I suspect this is a Windows issue, but adding ucsm in case it's not. Apologies if it's OT.
My wife has the 50GB plan for iCloud, but now wants to have a copy of
all her photos on our home PC. Simple, I thought, install iCloud Photos
and let it do it's thing.
However, it seems to be stuck at ~12,000 photos sync'd and won't go any further. There should be ~19,000. The iCloud taskbar icon says there
~4800 downloading.
Also, File Manager is now practically unusable. Only a handful of photos
have thumbnails and right-clicking on any of them freezes file manager
which eventually crashes. It's a been like this for about a day and rebooted/restarted a few times.
CPU usage is minimal: icloud is using 25% and that's about it. There's
no network activity.
The overall aim is for her to able to look at photos on the PC (and
bigger screen) and to download and save some as local copies. We managed
to download a handful, but that's also not working now.
How to unstuck the process of syncing? And is File Manager just not up
to managing >12k files in one folder? Is there a way to optimise it? Are there alternative file managers that would be better?
I suspect this is a Windows issue, but adding ucsm in case it's not. Apologies if it's OT.
My wife has the 50GB plan for iCloud, but now wants to have a copy of
all her photos on our home PC. Simple, I thought, install iCloud
Photos and let it do it's thing.
However, it seems to be stuck at ~12,000 photos sync'd and won't go
any further. There should be ~19,000. The iCloud taskbar icon says
there ~4800 downloading.
Also, File Manager is now practically unusable. Only a handful of
photos have thumbnails and right-clicking on any of them freezes file
manager which eventually crashes. It's a been like this for about a
day and rebooted/restarted a few times.
CPU usage is minimal: icloud is using 25% and that's about it. There's
no network activity.
The overall aim is for her to able to look at photos on the PC (and
bigger screen) and to download and save some as local copies. We
managed to download a handful, but that's also not working now.
How to unstuck the process of syncing? And is File Manager just not up
to managing >12k files in one folder? Is there a way to optimise it?
Are there alternative file managers that would be better?
Am 25.06.23 um 11:45 schrieb Chris:
I suspect this is a Windows issue, but adding ucsm in case it's not.
Apologies if it's OT.
My wife has the 50GB plan for iCloud, but now wants to have a copy of
all her photos on our home PC. Simple, I thought, install iCloud Photos
and let it do it's thing.
However, it seems to be stuck at ~12,000 photos sync'd and won't go any
further. There should be ~19,000. The iCloud taskbar icon says there
~4800 downloading.
Also, File Manager is now practically unusable. Only a handful of photos
have thumbnails and right-clicking on any of them freezes file manager
which eventually crashes. It's a been like this for about a day and
rebooted/restarted a few times.
CPU usage is minimal: icloud is using 25% and that's about it. There's
no network activity.
The overall aim is for her to able to look at photos on the PC (and
bigger screen) and to download and save some as local copies. We managed
to download a handful, but that's also not working now.
How to unstuck the process of syncing? And is File Manager just not up
to managing >12k files in one folder? Is there a way to optimise it? Are
there alternative file managers that would be better?
OT in a Mac-group. I never had issues to download my 40'000+ pics.
Do not forget to convert into .jpg.
I suspect this is a Windows issue, but adding ucsm in case it's not. Apologies if it's OT.
My wife has the 50GB plan for iCloud, but now wants to have a copy of
all her photos on our home PC. Simple, I thought, install iCloud Photos
and let it do it's thing.
However, it seems to be stuck at ~12,000 photos sync'd and won't go any further. There should be ~19,000. The iCloud taskbar icon says there
~4800 downloading.
Also, File Manager is now practically unusable. Only a handful of photos
have thumbnails and right-clicking on any of them freezes file manager
which eventually crashes. It's a been like this for about a day and rebooted/restarted a few times.
CPU usage is minimal: icloud is using 25% and that's about it. There's
no network activity.
The overall aim is for her to able to look at photos on the PC (and
bigger screen) and to download and save some as local copies. We managed
to download a handful, but that's also not working now.
How to unstuck the process of syncing? And is File Manager just not up
to managing >12k files in one folder? Is there a way to optimise it? Are there alternative file managers that would be better?
Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
I suspect this is a Windows issue, but adding ucsm in case it's not.
Apologies if it's OT.
My wife has the 50GB plan for iCloud, but now wants to have a copy of
all her photos on our home PC. Simple, I thought, install iCloud Photos
and let it do it's thing.
However, it seems to be stuck at ~12,000 photos sync'd and won't go any
further. There should be ~19,000. The iCloud taskbar icon says there
~4800 downloading.
Also, File Manager is now practically unusable. Only a handful of photos
have thumbnails and right-clicking on any of them freezes file manager
which eventually crashes. It's a been like this for about a day and
rebooted/restarted a few times.
CPU usage is minimal: icloud is using 25% and that's about it. There's
no network activity.
The overall aim is for her to able to look at photos on the PC (and
bigger screen) and to download and save some as local copies. We managed
to download a handful, but that's also not working now.
How to unstuck the process of syncing? And is File Manager just not up
to managing >12k files in one folder? Is there a way to optimise it? Are
there alternative file managers that would be better?
It's probably of little help, but I had a similar problem with the
Google Drive software on my Windows 11 system. In the end, I 'solved' it
by stopping the Google Drive software, End-ing all Google Drive
processes and restarting the Google Drive software.
As to File Explorer (I assume that's what you mean by 'File Manager'),
you could try something else to look at the *files* (not the photos in
them) with something as simple as a Command Prompt window, or/and you
could look at the files/photos with some other program, like whatever
photo viewer is included in Windows 10, or IrfanView, or some such.
And note Joerg's comment: Are the photos perhaps converted on the fly
from whatever 'Apple' format (HEIC?) to another format? Doing that for ~19,000 photos could be quite a load.
Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:[...]
As to File Explorer (I assume that's what you mean by 'File Manager'), you could try something else to look at the *files* (not the photos in them) with something as simple as a Command Prompt window, or/and you
could look at the files/photos with some other program, like whatever
photo viewer is included in Windows 10, or IrfanView, or some such.
I can't as File Explorer (thanks) freezes whenever I try to interact with
any of the photos. Even a right-click.
Is it possible to open or download the files from command prompt?
Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:[...]
As to File Explorer (I assume that's what you mean by 'File Manager'), >>> you could try something else to look at the *files* (not the photos in
them) with something as simple as a Command Prompt window, or/and you
could look at the files/photos with some other program, like whatever
photo viewer is included in Windows 10, or IrfanView, or some such.
I can't as File Explorer (thanks) freezes whenever I try to interact with
any of the photos. Even a right-click.
Is it possible to open or download the files from command prompt?
No, I mean open a Command Prompt window, 'cd' to the folder where the files should be and do a 'dir', to see if there's a general fodler-size problem or 'just' a File Explorer problem.
Likewise with the photo viewer, IrfanView, etc.. *Don't* right-click
in File Explorer, but start the photo-viewer/IrfanView and (try to) open
the folder/files from within *that* program. So for IrfanView -> File -> Open...
Windows 11 has both 'Windows Media Player Legacy' (probably without
Legacy in 10) and a 'Photos' *app*.
BTW, I see that the Photos app has a 'iCloud Photos' category:
"View your iCloud Photos here
Install iCloud for Windows from the Microsoft Store. Sign in to
iCloud and choose "Photos" to view your iCloud Photos here.
Learn more about setting up iCloud for Microsoft Photos.
[Get iCloud for Windows]"
Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> wrote:
OT in a Mac-group. I never had issues to download my 40'000+ pics.
Thanks for giving confidence that it should work.
Do not forget to convert into .jpg.
Yes, that's the default. Not using HEIC.
And note Joerg's comment: Are the photos perhaps converted on the fly
from whatever 'Apple' format (HEIC?) to another format? Doing that for ~19,000 photos could be quite a load.
Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
And note Joerg's comment: Are the photos perhaps converted on the fly
from whatever 'Apple' format (HEIC?) to another format? Doing that for
~19,000 photos could be quite a load.
They're all jpegs.
I suspect this is a Windows issue, but adding ucsm in case it's not. Apologies if it's OT.
My wife has the 50GB plan for iCloud, but now wants to have a copy of all her photos on our home PC. Simple, I thought, install iCloud Photos and let it do it's thing.
However, it seems to be stuck at ~12,000 photos sync'd and won't go any further. There should be ~19,000. The iCloud taskbar icon says there ~4800 downloading.
Also, File Manager is now practically unusable. Only a handful of photos have thumbnails and right-clicking on any of them freezes file manager which eventually crashes. It's a been like this for about a day and rebooted/restarted a few times.
CPU usage is minimal: icloud is using 25% and that's about it. There's no network activity.
The overall aim is for her to able to look at photos on the PC (and bigger screen) and to download and save some as local copies. We managed to download a handful, but that's also not working now.
How to unstuck the process of syncing? And is File Manager just not up to managing >12k files in one folder? Is there a way to optimise it? Are there alternative file managers that would be better?
Am 25.06.23 um 15:06 schrieb Chris:
Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> wrote:
OT in a Mac-group. I never had issues to download my 40'000+ pics.
Thanks for giving confidence that it should work.
I'm talking about my Macs
Do not forget to convert into .jpg.
Yes, that's the default. Not using HEIC.
You could also download them in batches: Year by year or something like
that.
On 25/06/2023 14:44, Frank Slootweg wrote:
Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:[...]
As to File Explorer (I assume that's what you mean by 'File Manager'),
you could try something else to look at the *files* (not the photos in >>>> them) with something as simple as a Command Prompt window, or/and you
could look at the files/photos with some other program, like whatever
photo viewer is included in Windows 10, or IrfanView, or some such.
I can't as File Explorer (thanks) freezes whenever I try to interact with >>> any of the photos. Even a right-click.
Is it possible to open or download the files from command prompt?
No, I mean open a Command Prompt window, 'cd' to the folder where the >> files should be and do a 'dir', to see if there's a general fodler-size
problem or 'just' a File Explorer problem.
Likewise with the photo viewer, IrfanView, etc.. *Don't* right-click
in File Explorer, but start the photo-viewer/IrfanView and (try to) open
the folder/files from within *that* program. So for IrfanView -> File ->
Open...
Ah, I see. Will give it a go when I'm back in front of it.
Windows 11 has both 'Windows Media Player Legacy' (probably without
Legacy in 10) and a 'Photos' *app*.
BTW, I see that the Photos app has a 'iCloud Photos' category:
"View your iCloud Photos here
Install iCloud for Windows from the Microsoft Store. Sign in to
iCloud and choose "Photos" to view your iCloud Photos here.
Learn more about setting up iCloud for Microsoft Photos.
[Get iCloud for Windows]"
Will see if that complicates things or not.
Thanks!
On 6/25/2023 10:11 AM, Chris wrote:
On 25/06/2023 14:44, Frank Slootweg wrote:
Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:[...]
As to File Explorer (I assume that's what you mean by 'File Manager'),
you could try something else to look at the *files* (not the photos in >>>>> them) with something as simple as a Command Prompt window, or/and you >>>>> could look at the files/photos with some other program, like whatever >>>>> photo viewer is included in Windows 10, or IrfanView, or some such.
I can't as File Explorer (thanks) freezes whenever I try to interact with >>>> any of the photos. Even a right-click.
Is it possible to open or download the files from command prompt?
No, I mean open a Command Prompt window, 'cd' to the folder where the >>> files should be and do a 'dir', to see if there's a general fodler-size
problem or 'just' a File Explorer problem.
Likewise with the photo viewer, IrfanView, etc.. *Don't* right-click >>> in File Explorer, but start the photo-viewer/IrfanView and (try to) open >>> the folder/files from within *that* program. So for IrfanView -> File -> >>> Open...
Ah, I see. Will give it a go when I'm back in front of it.
Windows 11 has both 'Windows Media Player Legacy' (probably without >>> Legacy in 10) and a 'Photos' *app*.
BTW, I see that the Photos app has a 'iCloud Photos' category:
"View your iCloud Photos here
Install iCloud for Windows from the Microsoft Store. Sign in to
iCloud and choose "Photos" to view your iCloud Photos here.
Learn more about setting up iCloud for Microsoft Photos.
[Get iCloud for Windows]"
Will see if that complicates things or not.
Thanks!
Google has a service calls "Google Takeout", which allows bulk transfer
of things like a GMail account, to your machine. The Takeout has various
tick boxes, for what you want bulk transferred. These could be in a ZIP file, as output.
So I decided, for fun, to see if Apple offered "Apple Takeout", because
you know, competition is good. [Adjust link locale as you see fit]
"Transfer a copy of your iCloud Photos collection to another service"
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT208514
That's not the convenience of Google Takeout, but you could do a
"two hop" transfer, Apple to Google, Google to earth. I don't
really consider this to be clever as such, but if you've run out
of options, it may be an option of last resort.
My wife has the 50GB plan for iCloud, but now wants to have a copy of
all her photos on our home PC. Simple, I thought, install iCloud Photos
and let it do it's thing.
However, it seems to be stuck at ~12,000 photos sync'd and won't go any further. There should be ~19,000. The iCloud taskbar icon says there
~4800 downloading.
On 25/6/2023 5:45 pm, Chris wrote:
My wife has the 50GB plan for iCloud, but now wants to have a copy of
all her photos on our home PC. Simple, I thought, install iCloud Photos
and let it do it's thing.
However, it seems to be stuck at ~12,000 photos sync'd and won't go any
further. There should be ~19,000. The iCloud taskbar icon says there
~4800 downloading.
Maybe that 19000-12000=7000 photos were so old that they had vanished during a recent hardware upgrade in the Cloud's data centers.... :)
On 25/6/2023 5:45 pm, Chris wrote:
My wife has the 50GB plan for iCloud, but now wants to have a copy of
all her photos on our home PC. Simple, I thought, install iCloud Photos
and let it do it's thing.
However, it seems to be stuck at ~12,000 photos sync'd and won't go any
further. There should be ~19,000. The iCloud taskbar icon says there
~4800 downloading.
Maybe that 19000-12000=7000 photos were so old that they had vanished
during a recent hardware upgrade in the Cloud's data centers.... :)
Am 26.06.23 um 06:38 schrieb Mr. Man-wai Chang:
Maybe that 19000-12000=7000 photos were so old that they had vanished
during a recent hardware upgrade in the Cloud's data centers.... :)
Troll and no clue of anything.
What can we expect from trollish Windows-user?
On 25/06/2023 14:44, Frank Slootweg wrote:
Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:[...]
As to File Explorer (I assume that's what you mean by 'File Manager'), >>>> you could try something else to look at the *files* (not the photos in >>>> them) with something as simple as a Command Prompt window, or/and you
could look at the files/photos with some other program, like whatever
photo viewer is included in Windows 10, or IrfanView, or some such.
I can't as File Explorer (thanks) freezes whenever I try to interact with >>> any of the photos. Even a right-click.
Is it possible to open or download the files from command prompt?
No, I mean open a Command Prompt window, 'cd' to the folder where the
files should be and do a 'dir', to see if there's a general fodler-size
problem or 'just' a File Explorer problem.
Likewise with the photo viewer, IrfanView, etc.. *Don't* right-click
in File Explorer, but start the photo-viewer/IrfanView and (try to) open
the folder/files from within *that* program. So for IrfanView -> File ->
Open...
Ah, I see. Will give it a go when I'm back in front of it.
Windows 11 has both 'Windows Media Player Legacy' (probably without
Legacy in 10) and a 'Photos' *app*.
BTW, I see that the Photos app has a 'iCloud Photos' category:
"View your iCloud Photos here
Install iCloud for Windows from the Microsoft Store. Sign in to
iCloud and choose "Photos" to view your iCloud Photos here.
Learn more about setting up iCloud for Microsoft Photos.
[Get iCloud for Windows]"
Will see if that complicates things or not.
Thanks!
Am 25.06.23 um 15:06 schrieb Chris:
Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
And note Joerg's comment: Are the photos perhaps converted on the fly
from whatever 'Apple' format (HEIC?) to another format? Doing that for
~19,000 photos could be quite a load.
They're all jpegs.
That means you have chosen to store them as .jpegs?
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