Photos acting weird

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Photos acting weird

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On my MacBook Pro (13 inch, 2017) I have about 40mb worth of pictures. However, when I'm accessing the "users and groups" categories, I have about 800 pictures to choose from. I have tried deleting the master files including these pictures using "Clean My Mac", the master files have disappeared, but not the size. When I'm checking my "imported pictures" in photos, they are about 1.5 mb of size, so I'm wondering where the rest is, so I can get rid of them? I do not have iCloud pictures on.

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Posted on Aug 26, 2019 2:26 AM

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léonie

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Aug 26, 2019 2:44 AM in response to anevas

If you let CleanMyMac touch the library, it may have become damaged and need repairing. Deleting images from the Masters folder will create inconstancies and the internal database files of the library will point to the wrong files. You will not be able to tell how much storage the photos on your Mac are really using, if the Photos Library is damaged.

I would restore an older version of your Photos Library from your backup and then use only Photos to delete images.

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léonie

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Aug 27, 2019 2:31 AM in response to anevas

That is good to know. iCloud is a great way to restore a library to a working version.

The only problem I noticed after restoring from iCloud is that manually added faces may not sync back to my Mac.

Only the automatically detected faces survived the round trip to iCloud.

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anevas Author

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Aug 27, 2019 2:22 AM in response to léonie

Thank you! I couldn't get photos back to a restored version, so I saved everything important in the cloud and did a total reset of my Mac. Everything is back to normal now!

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