Daniel Pietzsch

Personal blog. Mostly photos.

Fixing iCloud Photo Stream

For some reason my Mac suddenly stopped downloading photos from iCloud’s Photo Stream. The folder at ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/sub/ didn’t contain any photos taken after a certain date.

The following steps fixed this for me:

  1. Go to System Preferences -> iCloud.
  2. Disable “Photo Stream”.
  3. Wait a few minutes (this seems to be important, because the first time I tried, I turned it back on after a couple of seconds already and that didn’t fix my problem).
  4. Enable “Photo Stream”.

After this, the Photo Stream folder started filling up again with all the photos my Mac hadn’t downloaded so far.