Installed Catalina on a 2018 Macbook Pro. Ran photos and it has been sitting at :"gathering favorites, detecting duplicates, curating best photos, composing layout, etc." about 30% complete without progress bar moving for the last 30 mins. How long should it take to setup Photo's in Catalina?
Had the same problem. Photos stuck on 80-90 % for 4 days. 45000 photos and about 1100 videos in library. Today a had a little time to do some debugging. Noticed that I had 3 old avi movies in the video library that was not supported (i.e. they would not play). Deleted them from the library and voilá, Photos finished “curating....” in seconds. This worked for both my 2016 Macbook Pro and an older 2012 iMac that both had been stuck at the same percentage for 4 days. How I wish Apple would just put up an error message and tell me which files are the problem...
Hi.
There seems to be no search criteria for the corrupted pictures.
most probably they are caused by an old device, in my casa iPhone 5s.
I have also 82.000 photos and videos. It was no easy decision to start searching one by one. But you have to.
My iMac was on since mid November. It does not seam to sort itself out..
Best of luck!!
That's something I already did and I only have photos, no video. It was stuck at 90% for 3 days, so I recovered the entire library with the "repair tool", then restarted the computer and launched Photo. It went to around 70% in 9 hours and then it stopped progressing for days.. that's where I still am now.
My library is 230gb for 92.000 photos.
Further to my earlier post, I've spoken again to Apple Support. Next step was to instal something to System Preferences, the downloaded file was named <MacPhotos.configprofile>, then from within Photos, generate a diagnostic report, which when complete was a 772MB file named <Photos-Diagnostics-T20200122-111930.tgz>.
The report was then uploaded to Apple, and according to the Apple Support representative, she will call me in a day or two.
In my case, I need to have MacBook 16 with Catalonia connected to power and connected by cable to my home net if I want to update my Photos Library, if not it keeps "downloading 60 pictures".
Something wrong is happening.
something else i've noticed. I import without copying, leaving them where they're at on my external ssd. and for my library, 250k items, the library file is 85 gigabytes!!! i assume that's just thumbnails and whatnot, but dang, it's no wonder that photos is kind of unwieldy in dealing with all of that..
trying something different. Mac OS is on my boot ssd, my photo collection on another ssd, and my apple photos library file is on its own ssd. trying to see if it makes a difference as far as speeding up the process, as you know, if they are all on one drive, then all the overlapping read and writes slows things down, but if the drive load is spread out, should speed up things. I know that importing into photos library puts a lot of work as evidenced by the non stop activity on the photos library ssd, while all the photos are on its own drive. seems to be mainly down to cpu speeds, this way, now. from previous iterations, my ~670GB photos collection, results in the apple photos library file ballooning up to over 1GB, just because of thumbnails and all that data to keep track of the photos, and all the facial recognition metadata that also fills out that library.
It's been more than 6 months and I still suffer from this issue. This is annoying as ****.
The latest updates for Catalina didn't solve it (tested from 10.15.3 - 10.15.6), and apple did not provided any kind of valid answer for this issue. I think I will switch from apple in the future since they don't care at all about users.
I found a very nice app to check image files, it's called badpeggy and you can check for currupted jpg files in your library. In my case found five corrupted files but that did't solve the problem either. I tried EVERYTHING.
Good luck for everyone that suffers from this.
Thanks - took a bit longer after restart but it did finish!
I have one of each... MacBook Pro optimized, iMac full downloads. Both still running after a week, stuck at 80%.
I do have 35k photos and 900 videos.
If you can find them in photos use the export option to copy them out of photos to a directory on your hdd
Kessler I had some pdf files that were giving me that issue. I just deleted from the library for now and will convert them to pdf and reimport later.
Agree ... mine finally completed ..goodness knows how many weeks it took but I do think the last update to Catalina helped ...all done and dusted....
hope others are finding the same now ..
Spotlight search for the image extension/s.
JPG, JPEG, RAW, PNG etc.
That ought to find all your files. It did for me.
Mine took 4 weeks for about 9000 photos plus 50 videos.
I had the same, but have closed/opened Photos several times - I still get a bit of the above, but now I've got "Uploading 4,432 Items" which I've had for a couple of hours now - how do I get through this process, just wait?
Also, I can see my albums, but my shared albums aren't showing - again, will this come in time?
Really need Apple to say something on the topic!!!
Photo's stuck on Catalina?
