Photos

[Jagsfish]

I am using iMac mid 2011 with El Capitan 10.11.4. iCloud backup and an iPhone 6 Plus

Lets see if I can make this clear. I back up my photos to the cloud (as well as backing to an external hard drive) I have over 13,000 pictures and about 500 videos.

When I migrated from windows, I have a lot of folders that have no pictures. I have gone into my photos on my mac and cleaned up/delete those folders thinking it would clean them in the cloud. It did not. I also went to iCloud and deleted some of them and they came right back. So, my question is, how can I clean photos and delete the empty folders and have them show up on my iPhone?

In addition, I have two folders with mostly the same pictures. I have edited them into one folder and deleted the other in photos. How do I get that new folder to sync on my iPhone? I have sync'd twice and I still get the two old folders.

It's confusing I know but hopefully someone will under and offer a solution.

Thanks

 

[mrplow]

The iPhone photos app doesn't have folders... do you mean Albums?

On the iPhone in Settings - iCloud - Photos is iCloud Photo Library on?

When you say you've tried syncing twice.... how?

 

[Jagsfish]

Yes, albums. I had two folders with basically same pictures. I made sure all were in one folder and deleted the other. When I looked at the saved folder there were only two pictures instead of 149. How do I go back and restore from backup or cloud? I have an external backup in addition to backing up in iCloud.

Yes iCloud photo library is on.