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MacBook Neo Photos not syncing with iCloud

Photos on my MacBook Neo 512 says has just synced with iCloud, but it hasn't. Plenty of space on Mac and iCloud, perfectly good wifi connection


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"Plenty of space," isn't very useful information. What is your storage on this Mac? At System Settings>General> Storage, my Mac says 745 GB of 1TBB used. What does yours say?




Can you give us more?

  1. What macOS does your Mac use?
  2. What makes you think that the Neo is not synchronized with iCloud?
  3. Do you have other devices syncing with iCloud Photos?
  4. Where does your Mac's Photos Library reside-- in the Pictures folder of your internal drive, or on an external drive? or on a network? on iCloud drive?
  5. Do you have “Optimize Storage” checked in Photos’ Settings
  6. Do you see all your Mac’s Photos  pictures at iCloud.com? What's there and what's not?
  7. Have you checked to see if the Apple Account is really really the same on the Mac and at iCloud.com?
  8. What is your storage at iCloud.com? At System Settings>[name]>iCloud>Storage , my Mac says 176 GB of 200 GB used. What does yours say?
  9. What does your Library say at the bottom of the Library view? Like this:


Try these things:

  • Restart the computer (of course)
  • Re-start in Safe Mode. This bypasses certain potentially disruptive processes, and it often helps. Safe Mode is different for different computers, so see this: 

           Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support