I have been trying to get the pictures from my Photo Stream on my iPhone onto my MacBook Pro. I connected them via iCloud and only some of the pictures uploaded into my Photo Stream on iPhoto. I have 949 pictures on the Photo Stream on my iPhone 4 and only 278 on my MacBook. All the pictures seem to be random, some of them are from all the way back to when I first got my iPhone, and the others are just random. I even tried creating another Photo Stream that I can access online, but it only showed 25 of the pictures. I want to get all of my pictures onto my laptop so that I can free up more space on my Photo Stream so that I don't loose some when I reach the limit (1,000). Please get back to me as soon as you can. Thank you.
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Problems with Photo Stream
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It might be your wifi. With that many pictures (at once), you should use the cable to transfer them.
I understand that it is a lot at once, but wouldn't it upload more over time? I have had my computer and phone under the same wifi for weeks and the pictures have not synced.
It is a mac, and I have pictures on my photostream (on my iPhone and a few on my mac) from over a year ago. So, there is no way that it is only stored for 30 days. I just don't know how to get them onto my laptop! ):
Probably a dumb question: Are the photos still on your iPhone? If so you probably know what to do. 
If not you can save the photos from Photo Stream into a new Album on the iPhone and transfer them out.
If not you can save the photos from Photo Stream into a new Album on the iPhone and transfer them out.