My Photo Stream in the new Photos App

I'm not really understanding what is going here.

I am trying to figure out the new Photos app. Right now I do NOT have iCloud Photo Library turned on, but I do have My Photo Stream.

In the Photos app, I can see My Photo Stream.
I can drag an image from My Photo Stream to an album.
However, when I delete the photo in My Photo Stream, it removes it from the album?!?!

This wasn't how it worked in Aperture.

Any ideas?

-Kevin

So unless I'm missing something....there is NO way to import a photo from your My Photo Stream into your local Photos library.

Seems odd?!?

I have a 350GB Aperture library and I don't intend to use iCloud Photo Library.....so the easiest way for me to get photos locally was to use Photo Stream.

-Kevin

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So it looks like in Photos, it automatically adds any photos from My Photos Stream to the local library.

- If I delete the photo from My Photo Stream in Photos, it's gone everywhere.

- If I delete the photo from My Photo Stream in Aperture, the photo in Photos is removed from the Photo Stream, but remains in the other albums.

- If I delete the photo from My Photo Stream on a device like an iPad that isn't using iCloud Photo Library, then it's removed from photo stream but remains in other albums.


Not sure what good this is if there is no way to save locally photo stream photos.

-Kevin

So another "bug" I've found that I see other people have is, sometimes you have to go into the Preferences to get the Photo Stream album to appear by toggling Photo Stream on and off.

musio said:

This sounds like a big flaw. Can you export your photo stream to a folder and then reimport?

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Yes, I can export and reimport. But what's weird is....it reimports back into Photo Stream!!! Seems this is default behavior of Photo Stream where any imports get auto added! Are you kidding me Apple?!?

bushido said:

that is odd. I don't have iCloud Photo enabled either but when I delete pics from the Photostream on my mac they remain in the "all photos" list

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Definatley not what I'm seeing here. When I remove a photo from photo stream, it's gone everywhere.

KALLT said:

This bug has been there since beta 1 and it’s been reported several times, to no avail it seems.

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Oh goody. I see Apple is laser focused on their damn iCloud Library and forgetting people have large libraries. Guess it's off to Lightroom for me.

-Kevin

zorinlynx said:

From what I can tell, anything that goes to your Photostream is imported automatically into your library.

That's it.

The only strange thing is that deleting a photo from "My Photostream" will also delete it from the library. I strongly believe it shouldn't; the Photostream has always been just a temporary online storage location and deleting photos from there should never cause the main library to be touched.

I wonder if it's a (very bad) bug.

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I agree.....and hope that it's a bug because at this point they are making Photo Stream act like iCloud Photo Library.

If you delete a photo from Photo Stream on say your iPhone....it's NOT removed from the local library on Photos.

Also, I can't believe they removed the option to NOT upload any imported photos to Photo Stream. Now, if you plug in a point and shoot and import 150 pictures....they are all getting uploaded to Photo Stream.

-Kevin