Photos not appearing in Mail
Hi,
I have a Macbook 15" mid 2010, 4gb memory and 1TB crucial SSD. There are 8,506 photos on the hard drive (as counted by Photos) and I use the Photos app to view them. I use Mail for all my emails.
When I compose a new email and I want to attach a photo I would click attach > media > photos and from there you can select whatever photo you want. The problem is that I can see that a lot of the photos are not shown, yet they appear in the Photos app. If I click on the "show or hide photo browser" button in Mail then I get the same results and the photo count shows as 5,506. The photo count in Photos still shows 8,506. The photos that are not showing seem to be random, regardless of when they were taken. For example, several photos I took 2 weeks ago are missing, yet a test photo I took today showed up.
I've noticed a similar thing in eBay. When I want to add photos taken on my iPhone to a listing (that have already been sent to iCloud and have downloaded successfully to Photos) it takes ages for them to load up into the photo browser, I'm sure it would take hours if I left it long enough.
Does anyone else have this problem and has found out what is going on? Would rebuilding the library help? I regularly use Onyx to help keep the machine running well but this has not helped with this particular issue.
Have just noticed while typing this that if I try and attach a photo using the "image insertion" button, I get the same missing photos in the browser, so doesn't seem like this issue is confined to something in the Mail app.
Any help appreciated!
MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.13