

I haven’t run into this problem again and am now up to 25,000 photos and just under 900 videos. Original files couldn’t be found three of them were duplicates of Upload to iCloud Photo Library” as the matching condition. Solution: you can create a Smart Group in Photos using “Unable to But damned ifĮventually, I found this support thread which suggested a Situation would want to know those two things. It didn’t do anything - I wanted to know which five itemsĬouldn’t be uploaded, and why. The main “Photos” view, where it tells you exactly how many photosĪnd videos you have, it said “Unable to Upload 5 Items”. You can also ctrl-click or right-click selected photos in an album or the moments and then use the command Edit > Delete. Except, a few weeksĪgo, I noticed that on my primary Mac, in Photos, at the bottom of This will move the selected photos to the Recently Deleted album, and there you can delete them finally. or disable iCloud Photo Library completely on your. or use a small Photos Library on your internal drive without iCloud Photos Library enabled and use the web interface to access your Photos in iCloud. Photos are available from all those devices. either use a library on an external drive with Photos and iCloud Photo Library. IPads, and Macs - all using the same iCloud account. If you use your Mac to back up your iPhone or iPad, you can delete old backups. Also choose Mailbox > Erase Deleted Items. If you use the Mail app for your email, choose Mailbox > Erase Junk Mail from the menu bar in Mail. And I’ve got a slew of devices - iPhones, Open this folder from the Dock, or by choosing Go > Downloads from the menu bar in the Finder.

I’ve got over 18,000 photos andĪlmost 400 videos. What to Do When Apple Photos Is ‘Unable to Upload Items’ to iCloudĪdam Engst’s aforelinked piece on iCloud Photo Library problems reminded me of this piece I wrote two years ago, that might still be of use to anyone who encounters this bug:
