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klatox

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Dec 24, 2015
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I just got a new iMac and I'm having trouble with my Photos library. I copied it over to my iMac and I'm able to see my Photos just fine. I use iCloud Photo Library on both my iPhone and my previous Mac. When I turn on iCloud Photo Library on the new iMac, it attempts to upload an erroneous number of photos to iCloud. Any idea what's going on here? I really don't feel like starting over and re-downloading my Photo library as it is over 100GB.

Update: So as a test I renamed my Photos library and created a new one. It's now trying to download over 12,000 items even though I only have about 8,000. Even weirder is that my earliest photo is showing as being from 1945...

Final update: I ended up just letting it run overnight and it seems to be correct now. Strange...
 
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