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Q: Error while repairing permissions

Just upgraded to the new Photos app, during the 'Preparing Library...' phase I received the following error "An error occurred while repairing permissions"

 

I rebooted to the recovery console (⌘R during a restart) and ran Disk Utility to repair permissions and repair the disk. After rebooting the same error appears after starting photos.

 

My console log shows the following:

 

2015-04-08 5:33:49.369 PM Photos[550]: Attempted pid lock for: file:///Users/jj/Pictures/iPhoto%20Library/, <PLPHgPIDFile: 0x61000024e400>, 1, retries: 3

2015-04-08 5:33:49.398 PM Photos[550]: Running permission check before migration

2015-04-08 5:33:49.398 PM Photos[550]: Begin Library Permission Check

2015-04-08 5:33:55.533 PM Photos[550]: End Library Permission Check, error: Error Domain=com.apple.library-repair.error Code=4 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.library-repair.error error 4.)"

2015-04-08 5:33:55.533 PM Photos[550]: PLMU migration failed: Error Domain=RKRepairLibraryPermissions Code=3 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (RKRepairLibraryPermissions error 3.)" UserInfo=0x600000270f00 {NSUnderlyingError=0x610000255b70 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.library-repair.error error 4.)"}

2015-04-08 5:33:55.541 PM Photos[550]: PLMU migration failed permission check: Error Domain=RKRepairLibraryPermissions Code=3 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (RKRepairLibraryPermissions error 3.)" UserInfo=0x600000270f00 {NSUnderlyingError=0x610000255b70 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.library-repair.error error 4.)"}, underlying error: Error Domain=com.apple.library-repair.error Code=4 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.library-repair.error error 4.)"

 

Anyone else see this already, or know how to report an issue directly to Apple?

Posted on Apr 8, 2015 4:46 PM

by Josho the mac,Solvedanswer
Josho the mac Josho the mac
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A:

Fixed it. My Photos library is now updating. Here is what worked for me.

 

The Photos app seems to import every image from your iPhoto library. Over the last 7 years it turns out that a few of my photos became corrupted at the system level (even low level tools fail to read from the file). So, when Photos fails to open a file, it simply reports an error and quits. Not the most robust error handling, but what can you do.

 

I resolved the problem by watching my system console (Spotlight Console to open the app). Next start Photos, and wait for the Photos app to fail. Look for something like the following in the console:

 

2015-04-08 6:40:33.000 PM kernel[0]: /SourceCache/AppleFSCompression_kexts/AppleFSCompression-68.1.1/Common/ChunkCom pression.cpp:264: /Users/jj/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2009/22-09-2009/Lighthouse Heceta.psd: invalid resource map

 

In my case above the kernel (the operating system) couldn't open one of my images. I deleted the file through Finder (Control-Click on the iPhoto folder using Finder and choose 'Show Contents'). I repeated this process until Photos imported my iPhoto library.

 

I'll try to restore the lost photos from a backup, but depending on when the corruption occurred to the file, I may have simply been backing up a corrupted file for years.

Posted on Apr 8, 2015 6:01 PM

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  • by dstrickler,

    dstrickler dstrickler Jun 14, 2015 3:09 PM in response to APizz
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    Jun 14, 2015 3:09 PM in response to APizz

    Knowing that I had seen thumbnails corrupt in previous versions of iPhoto (I'm now using Photos in Yosemite), I found my Photos library under my user dir and the sub-dir called Pictures. I shift-clicked on it and chose Open Package Contents. This will show you all the files of the photo library "database". Then I found the thumbnails and deleted them. I then launched Photos with Option-Command pressed, and the repair went well.

     

    You'll loose your thumbnails, but photos will detect they are missing and rebuild them. Be patient!

  • by natejames,

    natejames natejames Jul 5, 2015 11:37 AM in response to Josho the mac
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    Jul 5, 2015 11:37 AM in response to Josho the mac

    @josho the mac ----- THANK YOU

     

    You put me on the right track by using console to see the problem at hand, wasn't aware of that feature and as a mac newbie this is going to be my favourite goto from now on!

     

    With Console i was able to see I had a problem with iPhoto Faces, this would freeze my photo import session, and all attempts to repair the database would fail. To fix my problem i open iPhoto via view contents, and just deleted the faces folder within ----I don't recommend people just arbitrarily deleting files without using a tool like console.--- Anyways problem solved and my 300+gig of photos are now converting over

     

     

    @Mr. Luigi

     

    I own a copy of iPhoto library manager, it did not fix the problem i was seeing after monitoring with console, and for the record i ran a complete repair with the iPhoto library tool. Even the built in repair database tool in iPhoto would not fix the faces issue i was getting

  • by MOTU88,

    MOTU88 MOTU88 Oct 28, 2015 9:22 PM in response to Josho the mac
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    Oct 28, 2015 9:22 PM in response to Josho the mac

    i had this problem over and over.  i deleted the photos app entirely, thinking i could just download another fresh copy.  found out you can't.  it comes with the OS.  got it back when i updated to 10.11  worked for a couple of weeks, then went back to "can't repair permissions" and have to quit out.  so, reading these solutions, i went to restart Photos with Option key down, but actually held down Option and Command keys.  Photos opened and said "about to repair permissions - OK?" had to enter admin password and it started a progress bar.  in my case, it gets to 5% and "can't repair..." comes up again and have to quit out.  Console reports "...Sandbox Error..."  i'm done messing with it for now, but maybe others will have better results.

     

    UPDATE:  I just gave up, held down just the option key and started Photos - it asks what library to use or create New.  I made a new one, it's finding all kinds of photos and importing them.  call it good.

  • by MOTU88,

    MOTU88 MOTU88 Oct 28, 2015 10:30 PM in response to Josho the mac
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    Oct 28, 2015 10:30 PM in response to Josho the mac

    UPDATE to my previous post.  after Photos scanned my drive and found a zillion photos i didn't know were there, it came up with an error message for three photos.  i wrote down the filenames and deleted them.  based on earlier comments for this problem, i'm thinking that previously Photos would open, encounter these bad files, error out and quit. hope this helps someone.

  • by chrisnel,

    chrisnel chrisnel Jul 1, 2016 5:54 PM in response to Josho the mac
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    Jul 1, 2016 5:54 PM in response to Josho the mac

    This worked for me. Went to Terminal, navigated to the photos library and changed the owner to me via a chown command.

     

    I suspect that many of us are trying to access an old library on an external drive, created in a past life when we were a different user  .

     

     

    [change directory to your external drive]

    cd /Volumes/EXT_DRIVE_NAME


    [navigate further as necessary to the folder where your photos library is]

    [at the folder, change permissions]

    [note that the "\ L" bit  below is the way to handle the space in the filename]


    sudo chown -R MY_USER_NAME Photos\ Library.photoslibrary


    [quit terminal, hold the alt/option key while double clicking the Photos icon, choose the library]





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