Thousands of my photos suddenly have had their Keywords disappear. I recently updated to OS 10.14.5. The timing is suspicious. Help. Hours and hours of time assigning Keywords to my photos have disappeared off into cyberspace.
iMac 21.5", macOS 10.14
Are all keywords gone from the photos, or only some? Are the most recently added keywords gone, or also keywords you added years ago?
Photos may have opened an older version of your Photos Library instead of your current library. This can happen, if Photos has a permissions problem with the location of the Photos Library. Try to open the correct library directly by double-clicking your Photos Library. You can also hold down the options key while launching Photos. Keep holding down ⌥, until you are seeing the Library Chooser dialog. Is there more than one library shown?
Mojave is more restrictive with the access to Photo Libraries because of the added security features. Is your Photos Library on an external drive? Then check, if the drive is suitable: Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac - Apple Support
Are all keywords gone from the photos, or only some? Are the most recently added keywords gone, or also keywords you added years ago?
Photos may have opened an older version of your Photos Library instead of your current library. This can happen, if Photos has a permissions problem with the location of the Photos Library. Try to open the correct library directly by double-clicking your Photos Library. You can also hold down the options key while launching Photos. Keep holding down ⌥, until you are seeing the Library Chooser dialog. Is there more than one library shown?
Mojave is more restrictive with the access to Photo Libraries because of the added security features. Is your Photos Library on an external drive? Then check, if the drive is suitable: Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac - Apple Support
Some of the keywords are gone. Some relatively new and many old. I tried to open an alternate library but there were none. There must be an older copy of my library in the cloud but I have no idea how to access it.
My library is on the iMac hard drive, not an external drive. I access my photos on the iMac, my iPad, and, my iPhone. I’m suspicious that this problem had something to do with updating OS to Mojave 10.14.5 recently? Help !!
iCloud Photos - keywords disappeared
