Apple - How do I force iPhoto to download new photos in my Photo Stream?
I have found a better way. One that doesn't involve resync'ing the entire stream.
- Quit iPhoto
- Open up Activity Monitor
- In the search field enter:
photostreamagent
- Select all the
PhotoStreamAgent
processes listed - Click the
Quit Process
button - In the confirmation dialog that pops up click the
Quit
button - Confirm that all the
PhotoStreamAgent
processes are no longer alive by waiting for the Activity Monitor window to show no processes with that name - Re-start iPhoto
When you restart iPhoto it will re-start the PhotoStreamAgent
process for your iPhoto session and kick off a new Photo Stream sync. You'll get your lastest pictures updated and you won't have to sit through a full re-sync of all your Photo Stream.
Update for Yosemite where the process name has changed to iCloud Photos
. This is the what you want to kill:
Update for Yosemite 10.10.4 where the process name has changed to Photos Agent
. This what you want to kill:
You can also do this, quickly, from the command line like so:
sudo pkill cloudphotosd
sudo killall cloudphotosd
In iPhoto, turn Photo Stream off then on.
Go to Preferences > Photo Stream. Uncheck "Enable Photo Stream". Close the preferences window. Click Photo Stream in the left-hand navigation pane and confirm there are no photos. Turn Photo Stream back on in preferences (check "Enable Photo Stream"). After a few seconds, iPhoto will start to download all the photos again. Depending on the number of photos, and your bandwidth, it may take awhile.