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gradient · Jan 25, 2013, 10:04 PM

Running Mountain Lion.

I created a new user and wanted to migrate my iPhoto library over to it. Just did a simple copy. Everything works fine except that I can't connect to Photostream with this new user.

I've tried logging out of iCloud and deleting the iCloud keychain entries, the logging back in but that didn't help.

I opened up console and see that I'm getting the following errors when iPhoto tries to connect:

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2013-01-25 7:34:26.918 PM iPhoto[43647]: Timeout launching photo stream agent

2013-01-25 7:34:26.941 PM com.apple.AppSandboxSMLoginItemEnabler[43658]: FAILURE: Failed to open property list at file://localhost/private/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.504/overrides.plist for reading. (The operation couldn’t be completed. No such file or directory)

2013-01-25 7:34:26.950 PM com.apple.AppSandboxSMLoginItemEnabler[43658]: FAILURE: Failed to write property list at file://localhost/private/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.504/overrides.plist. (The operation couldn’t be completed. No such file or directory)

2013-01-25 7:34:26.956 PM com.apple.AppSandboxSMLoginItemEnabler[43658]: FAILURE: Could not repair overrides database: 0x2

2013-01-25 7:34:26.966 PM com.apple.AppSandboxSMLoginItemEnabler[43658]: FAILURE: Failed to open property list at file://localhost/private/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.504/overrides.plist for reading. (The operation couldn’t be completed. No such file or directory)

2013-01-25 7:34:36.918 PM iPhoto[43647]: Timeout launching photo stream agent

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504 is the UID for my user, so I went and looked in launched.db and sure enough there isn't a file there for my user (though there are 18 other ones).

Am I on the right track? Any ideas what to do next to sort this out?

Thank you!

gradient · Jan 28, 2013, 01:39 AM

Huh, suddenly today it started working - I decided to try enabling photostream again and it connected. Went and checked launcehd.db and now there's a peruser.504.....no clue what happened but I guess I'll take it!

Spheric Harlot · Jan 28, 2013, 12:16 PM

My iPhoto had difficulty on January 26th, as well. Last synched photo from Photo Stream was from the 25th (early a.m. US time).
Worked fine again yesterday evening (27th).