Getting 'Cocoa error 66800' when adding to Photos library

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Getting 'Cocoa error 66800' when adding to Photos library

Hi, can anyone please help me resolve this 'Cocoa error 66800' when I try to 'share' photos to my Photos library on my MacBook Pro?

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Posted on Dec 18, 2018 10:09 PM

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Hughsart Author

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Dec 19, 2018 3:33 AM in response to léonie

Hi, thanks for responding. I'm running macOS Mojave. Actually, Photos crashed and when I restarted it, it had loaded the two photos. I had Airdropped them from my iPhone as Photo stream hadn't transferred them (must have had too many photos, or too little capacity perhaps) and was then using the 'Share to' feature to get them to the Photo library. They are jpegs I think but am not totally sure what format the iPhone uses.

Anyway, all is good now thanks for whatever reason :)

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Hughsart Author

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Jan 7, 2019 7:22 PM in response to J-Dub8

Hi J-Dub8,

It fixed itself after Photos crashed. I had also deleted photos off my iPhone and the laptop. So I'm not sure what actually made the difference, but when I re-started Photos, the photos were there that I had tried to share. Perhaps try shutting down Photos, and re-starting your computer. Good luck.

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nhcarter

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Feb 24, 2019 8:44 AM in response to Hughsart

Cocoa error 66800. In Preview I found that this error notice came up when I went to File-share-photos but if I used the share icon at the top of the photo, then it worked without a problem. So press icon-share-photos and hopefully it should be fine.

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léonie

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Dec 19, 2018 1:53 AM in response to Hughsart

Which version of MacOS X and Photos are you using?

Which application are you sharing from?

And what is the file format of the photos you are trying to share? JPEGs, RAW files, other formats?

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ewalr

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Dec 29, 2018 9:43 AM in response to Hughsart

I have restarted my computer but still have this error message. Any help is appreciated - this is very frustrating.

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Hughsart Author

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Dec 29, 2018 1:47 PM in response to ewalr

Not sure what more you can do. I also deleted some photos off both my phone and laptop. Good luck!

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ewalr

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Dec 29, 2018 2:35 PM in response to Hughsart

Thanks, found a work around. If you send a photo to your computer and want to share to Photos - right click the photo and export to Photos.

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Dec 31, 2018 10:23 AM in response to ewalr

same error message when sending from DXO to Photos. Worked well before.

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J-Dub8

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Jan 7, 2019 1:55 PM in response to Hughsart

I have the same problem. Did you find a solution?

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Jan 20, 2019 3:32 AM in response to Hughsart

I'm was trying to save a png file to Photos, and I assume the Cocoa error 66800 error message means that I can't save a png file in Photos.

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Hughsart Author

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Jan 20, 2019 3:47 AM in response to sknipfromOhio

In my experience you can. The reason why you’re having trouble is due to something else I’d say. Try closing photos and restarting your computer, which is what I did.

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léonie

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Jan 20, 2019 3:48 AM in response to sknipfromOhio

Photos for Mac can handle PNG files. But files can become incompatible, if a third-party application embedded an unsupported color profile.

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Hughsart Author

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Jan 20, 2019 4:08 AM in response to léonie

Arh, thanks Leonie

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