How to delete Photo Stream drive content?

[HaythmA]

Hi,
I am using Parallels Desktop 10.2.1 and I have both Window 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04 installed on my MacBook Pro Retina and I can see a device called "Photo Stream" on both machines with pictures from my iPhone. The problem is, I did not enable Photo Stream on my iCloud account and I can not access these pictures from Mac OS.


When I try to delete these pictures it says in Windows "This action can't be completed because the file is open in another program" And in Ubuntu the move to trash option is grayed out.

How can I delete these pictures?

Thank you.

 

[Manoj@Parallels]

Hi HaythmA,
With Parallels Desktop you can easily share you favourite Cloud services like iCloud, PhotoStream, DropBox, GoogleDrive and SkyDrive between your Mac and Windows Virtual Machine without duplicating your data.
For the additional information, please refer to http://kb.parallels.com/116987
Note : This article applies for Parallels Desktop 10 also.

 

[HaythmA]

Hi Manoj D.,
Thank you for your reply. I have read the article, however, it only shows how to enable or disable could services sharing. I need to share Dropbox across my machines, but I want to delete the content of PhotoStream driver. I tried to disable cloud services sharing, restarted both machines, the enabled it again and that did not solve the problem.
Thank you.

 

[PaulChristopher@Parallels]

Hi HaythmA,
Please submit a Problem Report ID http://kb.parallels.com/9058 and provide us the ID number here, so that we can check and assist you better on this issue.

 

[HaythmA]

Hi Paul,
Thank you for your reply. The Report ID is: 65254659.

 

[Maria@Parallels]

@HaythmA did you try to disable the "Shared profile" option? (VM confoguration -> Option -> Shared)

 

[HaythmA]

@Maria@Parallels Yes, I did. When I enable it again the content is not deleted and I need this option for Dropbox.

 

[Maria@Parallels]

Ok, @HaythmA and did you try to change Shared Folder option from "All disks" to "Home folders only"?

 

[HaythmA]

@Maria@Parallels Yes, I just did, still have the pictures in Photo Stream folder and can't delete them.

 

[Maria@Parallels]

@HaythmA I've just tested it and would like to let you know that the Photo Steam is a part of iCloud service please look at this Apple KB article
In this case you will be unable to turn off the Dropbox and Photo Steam at the same time (because in VM configuration we have only one option for Cloud sharing).
But you may try to turn off the Photo Steam in your iCloud account using the same article

 

[HaythmA]

@Maria@Parallels Thank you so much. I did that and the problem was solved. iCould Photos was not enabled in iPhotos app, I enabled it, then got the pictures downloaded into my Mac and deleted them.
Do I need to do something now like closing this thread or something?

 

[Maria@Parallels]

Glad to know, @HaythmA.
I think we and our discussion may help other users, let's just leave it