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Photos app crashing on startup

Dear all,

Recently when I'm trying to start the Photos app on my iMac (OSX Mojave 10.14.6) it crashes at startup.

I can see a window opening up, but it immediately closes again.

I tried to start it when pressing CMD + Option, but this also doesn't seem to help.

It also seem to be a system wide problem, as on another account on the same device the problem also occurs.

I checked the console when trying to start the app and added the message attached to this post.

Does anyone have an idea on how to solve this?

Regard,

Michael

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Sep 13, 2019 12:24 AM

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Posted on Sep 14, 2019 3:12 AM

I was able to solve the issue by holding only the option key at startup. Then i got the window where you can choose your library.

I created a new library and started up from this one. Then the Photos app did open and didn't crash anymore.

As all my pictures are on iCloud, I just switchd on iCloud again in this library and everything seems to be back in order.

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