Please help with iPhoto

[sactjt]

Running latest osx 10.9 and newest iPhoto 9.5.
I recently noticed that my adsl upload speed was extremely slow. Emails etc a pain.
I recently imported some of my old photos into iPhoto. +- 60GB in total.
This morning I looked at the network tab under activity monitor and noticed that iPhoto was hogging my upload speed.
Opened iPhoto to have a look and saw that it is now trying to upload almost 10 000 photos to my photo stream.
Does iPhoto automatically upload photos from my library to iCloud or can I disable it? I am used to photos uploading to iCloud after taking a photo on my iPhone or iPad but not my entire library on my macbook.

 

[GforceD]

hell if i know tried to put music on a iphone the other day from my pc.

itunes is not a very helpful program.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Yes this is a feature you have Enabled as part of your Photostream settings.

iPhoto Preferences > iCloud > Automatic Upload

Switch that off and you'll be good to go.


It's so that you can have ALL your photos on Photo Stream and not just the ones taken with the iOS devices.

 

[sactjt]

Yes this is a feature you have Enabled as part of your Photostream settings.

iPhoto Preferences > iCloud > Automatic Upload

Switch that off and you'll be good to go.


It's so that you can have ALL your photos on Photo Stream and not just the ones taken with the iOS devices.

Thank you for your help!

I disabled "automatic upload" in preferences:
After disabling "automatic download", "iCloud photos" process was still running under the network tab. I quit the process in activity monitor and then restarted my macbook. After restart it just started back up again. Any way to stop this? Seems like it's trying to complete the 9000 plus photo upload.

 

[sactjt]

Thank you for your help!

I disabled "automatic upload" in preferences: View attachment 86709
After disabling "automatic download", "iCloud photos" process was still running under the network tab. I quit the process in activity monitor and then restarted my macbook. After restart it just started back up again. Any way to stop this? Seems like it's trying to complete the 9000 plus photo upload.

Nevermind. After some searches I found the following discussion and it solved my problem:

"I just dragged about 1000 photos into iPhoto, and PhotoStream is now trying to upload those. I tried changing the pref in iPhoto to not upload new photos in iPhoto and also resetting PhotoStream in iCloud, but they are still uploading. Any ideas?"

"I did the same thing and managed to fix it by canceling photostream integration in iphoto preferences, clicking through the ok's and then enabling it anew."

"Great Wizard's tip worked. Just cancel and re-enable photostream integration in iPhoto prefs.
That will make you download all the photos again, but that's better than uploading them.
iCloud needs fixing though, to be honest..."

 

[sajunky]

Delete iCloud account, problem gone.