I've been using Photos since Apple released it this year - and it hasn't worked TOO badly. I access my Photos library from any one of 3 iDevices plus my Mac mini. The problem I have is that a week ago, several hundred photos popped up at the end of my "All Photos" album that weren't supposed to be there. They were much older and should have remained in their places earlier in the All Photos album (I have 14K photos there). Nearest I can guess is this happened due to some corruption caused when I bought a new iPad and tried to install a backup from my old iPad, because that's the day it happened (Nov 28).
But it doesn't really matter HOW it happened. I'd like to fix it, and i have two backups that I can work with. One is the backup of the Photos library on my Mac's Time Machine, that goes back to the day before the issue arose (Nov 27). The other is my older iPad which has not yet synched to iCloud since Nov 27th, so it's "All Photos" album is still okay. I have placed that iPad in Airplane mode so it won't get "contaminated" by a sync from the current iCloud database.
If I try to use the Time Machine backup, what will happen to the iCloud's current version of "All Photos"? Will it be replaced by my (correct) Nov 28th image, or will the result be a mishmash of both? Or will the current iCloud image just override my older backed-up image?
What I'm not clear about here, I guess, is whether the existing iCloud image will overide my good backup. I suppose, strictly speaking, I could somehow delete all 14K of the photos on the current version of iCloud's Photos section, and then either restore my Mac Backup or reconnect from the older iPad with it's pre-Nov 28 image - but that sounds pretty risky.
Any help would be appreciated,
Rob from AZ
But it doesn't really matter HOW it happened. I'd like to fix it, and i have two backups that I can work with. One is the backup of the Photos library on my Mac's Time Machine, that goes back to the day before the issue arose (Nov 27). The other is my older iPad which has not yet synched to iCloud since Nov 27th, so it's "All Photos" album is still okay. I have placed that iPad in Airplane mode so it won't get "contaminated" by a sync from the current iCloud database.
If I try to use the Time Machine backup, what will happen to the iCloud's current version of "All Photos"? Will it be replaced by my (correct) Nov 28th image, or will the result be a mishmash of both? Or will the current iCloud image just override my older backed-up image?
What I'm not clear about here, I guess, is whether the existing iCloud image will overide my good backup. I suppose, strictly speaking, I could somehow delete all 14K of the photos on the current version of iCloud's Photos section, and then either restore my Mac Backup or reconnect from the older iPad with it's pre-Nov 28 image - but that sounds pretty risky.
Any help would be appreciated,
Rob from AZ