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Updating Photos Library stalled at 5%

I had moved my photos library from system drive to an external drive due to its size, about 400 GB.

4 TB external, formatted OS Extended (Journaled). This under Yosemite and Photos worked okay with the library on the external drive, even though a USB 2 connection.

I just updated to High Sierra 10.13.6 and when I started photos, immediately the Updating Library screen came up and it has been stuck at 5% for a few hours. My fear is that it created a Photos library on my internal drive and is copying back my photos from the external drive. I had assumed it would use the previous settings from Yosemite for Photos which has the external drive as my Photos library. If this is happening, how can I interrupt the program without damaging anything?

Mac Mini mid 2011 2.7 GHz i core 7.

Posted on Feb 2, 2019 5:04 PM

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léonie

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Many users reported this problem. The progress bar simply does not update and after many hours of showing 5% it will jump to 100% and finish.

Posted on Feb 3, 2019 10:06 AM

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