Downloaded icloud photo zip file doesnt open

Whether one photo or many this creates a. Error 2 no such file or directory". I tried installing another decompression app called Decompressor and that did not work either, another similar error message. What is wrong here?

Posted on Oct 12, AM. By the way, I found the answer to my own problem! When you download from the iCloud you have to download into the downloads file. Selecting another file as I did at first will not work. Posted on Oct 16, AM. Page content loaded. Oct 16, AM.

Solution does not work for me. The compressed zipped folder is empty. See Keep photos and videos downloaded in iCloud for Windows. After you set up iCloud Photos, new photos and videos you add to iCloud Photos on other devices are automatically downloaded to your PC.

Double-click the Downloads folder or the location you chose during setup. To see photos and videos that were added before you set up the feature, click the Notification area in the taskbar, click Download Photos in the iCloud Photos notification, then choose the photos and videos you want to download. To enable the feature, simply head over to the Photos Options pane again, and then check the box next to My Photo Stream.

Once done, click Done to save the changes. You need to remember that with My Photo Stream, only photos, and not videos, are synced between devices. Also, the photostream should appear directly under the Downloads folder — instead of sub-folders by year — once you access iCloud Photos.

Force-quitting these processes from memory forces iCloud to shut-down, which is pretty useful since the application provides no way to exit normally.

If any downloads don't occur simply due to a matter of an instance of iCloud Photos malfunctioning, then doing so should resolve the issue for good. That should quit iCloud from memory. Simply load the application again, and it should sign in automatically. Hopefully, any stuck downloads should now resume automatically. Sometimes, the best way to get iCloud Photos to work properly is to force the application to re-initiate a download. However, any photos that were already downloaded earlier aren't replaced — instead, iCloud Photos tends to create duplicate folders.

But since downloads are grouped by year, however, you can choose to delete the original duplicates easily afterward. Step 1: Click the iCloud icon on the system tray, and then click Download Photos. Step 2: You should now find a Download Photos and Videos pop-up box, where you can select photos available on iCloud for download grouped by year. Simply select All to select the entire iCloud Photo Library for download. Click Download to initiate a download. It should take a while, but your photos should start appearing within the Downloads folder in iCloud Photos.

Visit iCloud Photos, and you should see new folders created by year — for example, 2 if you re-downloaded the photos for a certain year. Any subsequent downloads should appear within this folder, and not the original folder, which you can delete if you are certain that all images are present inside the new folder.