Photo's stuck on Catalina?

Only 20,000 photos around 100GB and has been going for 3 days now and not advancing past 85-90% on the progress bar. What to do? Did try restarting but it just comes back to the same place scrolling around detecting duplicates, curating best photos, and composing layout etc. Also this library connected to iCloud which I think is a common element with all these. Maybe will have to try and rebuild the library.

Well I have about 280,000 Photos and it’s been updating for two full days day and night and I guess it’s gonna be at least another week. I need to travel on Thursday so I might be screwed. I also need my computer for the job I’m doing on Thursday. Fingers crossed that things speed up but my photos have been stuck in one place for quite a while.

Had the same problem which eventually resolved itself, now I went into photos loaded down 50 odd raw photos, did some editing - now it’s stuck, Catalina seems to have screwed photos, when will I learn to not trust Apple and wait for at least a month for their bug laden software to settle down.

38,125 Photos, 453 Videos and well over 2 days cycling through - Gathering Favourites..., Analysing Scenes..., Detecting Duplicates..., Curating Best Photos..., Composing Layout... - with no detectable movement of progress bar (sitting at c. 85%) ...

Have tried everything posted in this discussion, but nothing's worked so far ...

Isn't it about time we heard from Apple what they're going to do about this? - even if it does eventually finish, I can't wait to find it starts all over again next time I upload some new photos!!!

I've done the "Stop / Quit Photos, Restart Mac" but for me it's still stuck :(

I do have a pretty large Library of Photos but I'd think there would be some progress eventually. But it seems to be simply "stuck".

Same question from my side. I (only?) have ~8000 photos and ~250 videos, but it's running for several days already (with Photos either open or closed, with power on, and even with energy saving prevented in settings for a couple of nights.)

I do remember that Photos app crashed for me once, soon after upgrading to Catalina, but I don't know if that's related to this or not.

I also do remember that the analysis took a long time (but not >4 days like now) a year before, with Mojave upgrade.

For now I wish I knew about how much time I need to wait, or at least whether the process is actually doing anything and would eventually finish or is it stuck on some issue and it would remain analyzing forever? (Should I try to repair/rebuild the library?)

Come on Apple. If the curation process is getting hung up on a particular photo please move it to a special folder labeled "Unable to Curate" and be done with it. Waiting days for curation to complete without knowing why the delay is irresponsible on your part.

Similar story here. Videos don't look bad, have done the restart trick.. logged in and out of iCloud... turned photo sync on and off... still stuck at 80%.

Of all things my photos are too valuable to not be working and/or be at risk of some type of cloud wipe.

I trust Apple less and less with each update they put out.

Some,of us have less than that and it’s been stuck for 7 days or more ..so forgive me if I don’t agree it’s expected behaviour ..somewhere somehow it’s hitting an issue that either stops or slows it down ... just because yours was ok doesn’t mean others do not have problems .. if I could mark your answer as ‘not helpful’ I would ....

I have some blank (black) videos as well. Hey Apple, what happened to these blank videos? I sure as the heck don't want to delete them because they may be important. I can't tell. I will attached a screenshot of these. As I peruse my Photos library I see blank black squares and blank white squares. Hmmmm... This sucks Apple.

How did you find the problematic videos? I've got thousands of photos and hundreds of videos that I've taken over the years (especially at my kids' sporting events). I absolutely cannot sit down and watch them all back-to-back in an effort to find the one video that's borked the process....

You ruined my photo 500GB library, Apple. You made such a mess with this update!!! Every photo has been duplicated on a folder named photolibrary/resources/cpl/cloudsync.noindex/storage/filecache.

I left my computer processing for 7 days and started duplicating everything on this folder.

I save on external drive and now my 1TB SSD external has no space, it consumed every byte. The originals folder is about 500 GB and that was my photo library, after updating to Catalina this new folder appeared and stole my whole storage space. If I erase it, it keeps creating it and starts transferring every photo and video until there is no more space remaining. Nice job Apple!! Keep it up ruining people's whole life photos. We TRUST you our memories, pay a lot for your products and this is the return. People from support are googlers, they keep searching on databases for answers they don't know and mess you even more. Train people asap!! And start giving good and reliable answers, this is running out of your hands. BUUUUUUUUH for you all, I am so dissapointed!!

Now my only choice is to trust you keep everything safe on your cloud, which for I pay 10 dollars per month. I want all my data on my hands asap. Hope you contact me with an answer Apple!!

We miss you Steve..

This is insane. What was Apple thinking. I have been toying with using Lightroom for some time and this has pushed me over the edge. The reason I have not previously done it is because it is more complicated. However having to deal with this non-sense is intolerable.

How/where did you look for those AVI files? (I'm good with command line work, I'm just not sure where I should be looking....)

Update: In my home directory's Pictures folder, I found two subfolders:

Photos Library.photoslibrary

iPhoto Library.migratedphotolibrary

I'm assuming that Photos is using at least one of those, and that's where I should be looking. But which one?