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ndpitch

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Before I delete my photo library from iCloud and re-sync it (100+ gigabytes), I figured I'd ask here if anyone has any suggestions.

I bought a new MacBook in July. I just noticed that since I bought the new MacBook, my iPhone HAS been uploading photos I've taken to the iCloud photo library, but that they're NOT downloading to my Photos app on the new MacBook.

In the settings on my Mac, it says the iCloud photo library is disabled. When I enable it, it says there's not enough space in the cloud to upload the library. It appears that it wants to upload my entire 100 GB library on the mac into the cloud rather than only the missing photos, and because I only have 90 GB free, it won't turn on. I suspect this happened when I manually transferred my photos library from my old MacBook to my new MacBook (because I didn't want to wait for it to download from the cloud).

Photos ARE syncing from my iPhone to my iPad, just not to the Mac, because for whatever reason the iCloud photo library is disabled there, and I can't turn it back on.

Any ideas?
 
Any ideas?

Before I deleted and re-uploaded all that, I would upgrade iCloud to whatever limit I needed for a month and see if that let me turn on iCloud Photo Library.

I suppose there is a risk that because you manually moved your library to the MacBook it will see those photos as unique. I am confident that you have backups. 🙂

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