Sign in to iCloud to access your photos, videos, documents, notes, contacts, and more. Use your Apple ID or create a new account to start using Apple services. For example, users can not opt to have only their iOS device photos synced to their Mac via ‌iCloud‌ ‌Photos‌ but not have their full library of photos in the ‌Photos‌ app for Mac.

However Mac Photos is only showing 11,535 for this total and when I look at Preferences/iCloud in Photos it says that it's uploading 12,231 items!

How to download iCloud photos to your Mac using Photos. If you just want to make sure that you have a full-res copy of a photo on your Mac before deleting it from your iPhone, you can download the.

Photos on your Mac will start downloading the new photos from iCloud Photo Library, once it has finished uploading the photos from your Mac to iCloud Photo Library.

and why is it apparently trying to upload 12,231 items?

Your Mac will restart the upload of the complete Photos library whenever it is uncertain, if the library on your Mac is not identical to the library in iCloud, for example:

• The Photos Library will be uploaded again if you toggle the sync with iCloud off and on again.
• The Photos Library will be uploaded again after you restore the Photos Library from a backup drive or move the library to a new location.
• The Photos Library will be uploaded again, if you run the Photos Library First Aid Tools and repair it.

Mac Not Downloading Icloud Photos

Uploading again will not result in duplicates. Photos will just compare the libraries and merge the library from your Mac into the iCloud Photo Library. It is not causing duplicates, it is just taking a very long time and a waste of bandwidth.

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Jan 8, 2017 11:30 AM