Aperture 3.2.3 Update—Delete From Photo Stream
As expected, an update to Aperture, (3.2.3) has dropped allowing us to delete individual images from the Photo Stream. Other than “minor issues related to performance and stability”, there are no other stated changes.
I’ve updated mine, and I’ve successfully deleted single photos from Aperture’s Photo Stream.
However, I’m not seeing them sync (delete) to my iPhone. In fact, I’m having loads of iCloud related issues at the moment. I had to reset my Apple password a couple of weeks ago and my iCloud experience hasn’t been the same since. I’m in the process of turning off iCloud completely on my iPhone, then I’ll reset Photo Stream, turn it off in Aperture as well, and then turn everything back on. Let’s see if that makes a difference. I read somewhere that as a performance tip you could disable iCloud to get some extra speed on your iPhone. That’s ridiculous, since iCloud is so integrated into everything you do, so clearly that’s not an option. However the statement got me thinking that it could be related to the speed issues I’ve been having, and now seeing this problem with Photo Stream syncing, I’m going to try resetting it all.
There’s a conversation on the 3.2.2 update over in the forum; chime in there if you want to comment. I’ll close comments here to keep duplicate conversations from happening.
I posted yesterday that I was having various iCloud issues and was going to basically reset it all, and I’ve done that now, so I wanted to share my results.
Photo Stream and iCloud in general is working much better now. I was seeing mismatches in Aperture vs the iPhone on Photo Stream, and I couldn’t figure out which was right. If you see the same number of photos in both, then just disabling and re-enabling Photo Stream will be enough to gain the ability to delete any single photo from any device across all devices, but I had to take it a step further.
- I completely deleted my iCloud account from my iPhone. Mail, Calendars, everything.
- I disabled Photo Stream in Aperture. (If you do this, ensure all Photo Stream photos have synced to Aperture, ‘cause in the next step, you’ll delete them all).
- I logged into iCloud.com and reset my Photo Stream (log in, click your name in the top right, then Advanced > Reset Photo Stream). That wiped everything out of the Stream.
- I enabled Photo Stream in Aperture. Of course it was empty, so I dragged in a couple of photos.
- I enabled iCloud on my iPhone, and turned on Photo Stream. The initial sync does take some time while it re-downloads all your mail, calendar, etc. settings, and does a backup if you turn that on, so be patient.
- Once that was done, the photos I’d added in Aperture were showing up on the iPhone, and deleting one photo from anywhere deleted everywhere—as it’s supposed to.
You probably won’t have to go through all that, but I did, so rest assured that if you are having issues, just reset it.
The other day I was in a local Mac Users Group meeting, and someone commented that they felt the Mac was advancing so fast that it was getting harder and harder to understand everything and keep things working. I responded that I felt they had this backwards; Apple is going to great lengths to make things easier for anyone to use their devices, and for those of us that have been doing this for a really long time, sometimes we over think it.
Just step back, and think of the easiest possible solution, the solution that you would think of first if you knew nothing else.
You know, turn it off and back on.
Works a treat.