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    Question Partial Uploads on Google Photos app?

    Has anyone else had problems with the iPhone Google Photos app? I upload a lot of photos to my google photos account (to use them on a google nest hub) but lately there have been a lot of photos that say 'Partial Upload' and it only uploads the photo in 0.5 resolution...How can i fix this?
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    Question Is there a way to find out what the biggest files are everywhere in my iCloud?

    I am running out of storage (2 TB level) and ran out to storage....i know they just came out with a 6 tb option, however, that is $29 whereas the 2 tb is $9.99 so i would rather to keep it under 2 tb to save on money. Is there a way to find out the size of everything in my iCloud to try to...
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    Big Sur Photos screensaver not working...

    I am having some problems with the Big Sur Photos screensaver not kicking in and it seems to be using up all my RAM too. Any suggestions on how to fix it? I did a clean install on my iMac to fix these and other issues I have had since the update, but it didn't seem to help. Also, i looked all...
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    Is there a way to recover a deleted Shared iCloud Photo Album?

    I did something really dumb and accidentally deleted a Shared iCloud Photo Album and didn't think I could get it back. I have a couple of devices that I haven't turned on recently and thought maybe there was a way to 'trick' it into keeping the Shared iCloud Photo Album around by quickly turning...
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    Has anyone had any issues with Fusion Drives, Times Machines and Mojave?

    i am running Sierra roguish now and looking to upgrade to Mohave but i was afraid my Time Machine backup might have issues if I upgrade ..
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    The 'People' folder is stuck scanning...

    The 'People' folder in the Photos app is stuck...It says '4,935 Photos Scanned...To finish scanning your remaining 93,510 photos, lock your iPhone and connect it to power.' (I know that is a crazy large amount of photos...I had this problem before, but i solved it in a weird way...i made...
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    iOs 10 photos keep saying 'Uploading 100,000' items....

    I have a LOT of photos in my iCloud account...Over 100,000 actually (it is a combination of photos i took with my iPhone and ones that I took with my actual camera)....However, lately it keeps saying that it is 'Uploading 100,000' photos...then over the course of the day...the number it is says...
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    My iMac is stuck at scanning photos at around 9000 ...how can i get it to keep scanning?

    In MacOS when it scans your photos (i assume for the 'People" part of photos) it is stuck at around 9000 photos ...and I have 70,000 total....how can I get it to go? i've tried disabling different processes in the background but nothing seems to help.
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    I thought 9.3 would fix the spotty Spotlight issue, but it doesn't..how can I fix it?

    I thought 9.3 would fix the spotty Spotlight issue, but it doesn't.... I have been having a lot of problems with Spotlight search on my iPhone and iPad lately...i will enter a word and it doesn't even seem to try to find anything....I thought it would might be fixed with 9.3, but...
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    Anyone having problems with Time Machine not backing up in El Capitan?

    The last backup it made was on July 23rd and I try to back it up manually now and it says 'Preparing backup..." but then eventually does nothing.
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    Anyone having problems with iCloud and El Capitan?

    When I use iMovie on El Capitan, the 'iMovie Theater' it keeps saying 'Turn on iCloud Drive' in the upper left had corner. However, i have iCloud for iMovie turned on. I try to turn it off and on several times in the iCloud settings. Is this a known issue for it in El Capitan? is there another...
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    Different user and hard drive names & Time Machine, is it safe to rename the hard drive and user name on my Mac now?

    Different user and hard drive names & Time Machine It?s a long story, but i had to restore my computer from Time Machine after using El Capitan. When I restored it, i tried to reformat the hard drive and ended up having a different hard name and user name than I did before. Is it safe to rename...
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    Restored El Capitan via Time Machine...now I am missing 45 gb...how can I find out what's missing

    It is a really really long story, but i had to restore my iMac via Time Machine and I had around 200 gb of storage left originally....now after I restored it via Time Machine...i have 245 gb left. ...how can I figure out what of the 45 gb is missing? i mostly care about my photos