Re: iCloud Photo Library "Download and Keep Originals" not FULLY working
I totally understand how iCloud Photo Library should work, after so many testing I finally gave up on using this service, it just doesn't work as advertised. All the downloads and uploads that should run on background simply stop working for no reason, there is no troubleshooting other than turning things off and on again. I was never able to hold my entire library on my devices using the "Download and keep originals", as described above big part of my videos, including the ones shot with iPhone itself, never make from the cloud to my phone storage or computer storage, all I get are the thumbnails. This is true when I clean install the iOS on my phone and turn on iCloud Photo Library for example, after many days conected to Wifi I end up with most images but not all downloaded to my phone and most videos with thumbnails only once the original is never downloaded from the cloud, to make things worst the longer videos can never be watched because of an error message telling me that the larger version of the file is not available and I should try later. If I log in to iCloud.com the video is there, I can play it via Safari but the error message and the "!" on the video remains on my devices. Same behavior on my computer, but with different files been fully downloaded and others not for no reason, it is a totally random process. A complete useless service as it is now. Unfortunately I reverted to manual downloading of my pictures to OS Photos using USB, will keep my library update, organized and backed up to TimeMachine hoping for someday to be able to turn on iCloud Photo Library and see it finally work as advertised by Apple, all photos and videos uploaded to the cloud and ALL PHOTOS AND VIDEOS ORIGINALS downloaded to my devices, it is really frustrating to spend money on a 128GB device expecting to be able to have your 40GB library in it but because of a poor designed software things just won't happen as expected. So for now I give it up on iCloud Photo Library, wasted too much time and effort on something that should "just work" but it doesn't.
Thanks to everyone that tried to help.
Regards.