Photo's stuck on Catalina?

Will give this a shot

but I’m actually thinking if any of this is worth it?

is the curation even good?

For me an unfinished progress bar is probably the motivation...

im not a big fan of the new look either on iOS or Mac

Has any one had success in having their library finish Curating etc? My MacBook Pro is Mar 2019, with photos on Samsung SSD with 170,000 photos and 2,500k videos. It’s been updating now since Catalina update. Restarted it about 5 times during this period. Seems to be stuck at 90%

Lots of people are saying "just let it finish." That's not it. With 17,463 photos and 1,142 videos stored on my internal SSD (and plenty of other people have many more than that!), I've left it running for 13 days now and it never progresses beyond about 85%-90%. My computer never sleeps, and I never turn it off except for the occasional reboot. I've rebooted 3 times in the past week to try and unstick this, but that's no good.

Thinking that people with the no-longer-valid AVI thing are on the right track, I'm eager to try it out, but I can't seem to find the files on the hard drive. I can find them in Photos, but before I delete them within the application, I want to make a copy of the files on a thumb drive "just in case."

The older Photos and iPhotos programs had the "Reveal in Finder" option, but I no longer see that. So I've managed to find the actual file names by selecting a troublesome thumbnail and hitting COMMAND-I ("Get Info"). But then when I go searching for the file in the Finder, it's not found.

I tried the Terminal, too. Let's assume I'm looking for a file named MVI_0143.AVI. what I do is open up the Terminal (I'm using zsh) and execute sudo find . -name '[mM][vV][iI]_0143.[aA][vV][iI]*'. Notice the bracketed character pairs to account for case sensitivity. And in this example, I'm using sudo, but that makes no difference. Nothing's found.

So where the heck are these files, and how do I preserve them onto removable media before I use Photos to delete them?

I have tried all the solutions and nothing helps

i also repaired the library, removed unable to upload files and all of it for me was a massive waste of time.

the process of curation started again and got stuck at the same place as before...

I am just letting it be now and waiting for Apple to sort their **** out... there are so many bugs in the OS that still exist... these are bugs I have been reporting since beta 3 that haven’t been closed. I was surprised they actually released it in this state

I'm experiencing the same issues as others in this string. Wish Apple would weigh in. The curation process is stuck. I guess at the end of the day it does not impact me too much. Just disappointing that everyone has to work too hard to have Photos work as designed. I will wait until Apple gets its act together on the subject.

I tried exporting them en masse, and then one at a time -- no luck. On these AVI files, Photos always replies with "Export Complete 0 (of 0) files have been exported." But it exports other AVI files from its library without a problem.

I have about 20,000 Raw images on 2 external HDD's running PHOTOS every time I load my images onto them from my new MBP it takes ages to access the drives (beach ball job) and after I have uploaded my images I have to force eject the external drives.

Doing my head in now!

We all want to be as 'green' as possible these days, so I do my work and turn off the MacBook....not any more.... hardrive and MacBook been on solid for days trying to finish large photo library, times that by everyone else having problems....mmmm !!! a lot of wasted power and wear and tear on drives, come on Apple please help us all!!!!

Mine finished...

But the curation is awful... the most random photos of strangers feature in my years page as opposed to family members whose photos are far more numerous in that year. There seems to be know logic or poor logic in the curation. All it's doing is looking for duplicates and showing fewer images, probably to hide these images so that you don't even realise they are there and they still take up storage on iCloud and you eventually land up purchasing more...

What's best is that for the same library the "curation" is different on different devices... isn't that strange?

After updating to Catalina, I have startet Photo a lot of times.

Roning in the front, as well as running in the background, and overnight.

I hold around 70.000 photos, and it seems never to finish up. In total, it have been running for more that 7 days.

Approx 80% finished and never ending.

I have checked up on my videos, but there where only iPhone recordings. Some doublets have been deleted, but does not seem to have any influence either.

Would appreciate that the program would get some kind of time out, if it is struggling with a specific file.

/Jesper

Mine is now not cursing but instead is adding 372 photos ... 2 days ago it had uploaded everything... such a messed up process.

It needs to tell you what file it's actively processing then you can review it and if necessary delete it ..

That can't be too hard Apple

Thanks for all of the helpful posts everyone has made on this thread! It's nice to know (in a way!) that I'm not alone in this.

I was wondering if anyone is having difficulty importing photos onto their Mac using SD cards while the Photos app is "curating"? Or is that normal that one cannot import during this process? I've updated to the latest 10.15.1 with hopes that would solve the issue, but it hasn't completed yet after about 2.5 weeks. Thanks!

I have just been visiting one of my friends. Hi has an 4 year old iMac 21" with a harddrive only. He has 36.784 photos in his Photo app, and it was finishing all search in 4 hours.

What the heck is going on, my iMac is newer, faster (Fusion drive) an it has now been running for 3 weeks.

Can it have something to do with the fusion drive model, my neighbor with same issues is also a fusion drive model ???

Apple fix it now !

Thanks for your tips, MutantSquid! Just wondering if you happen to know if importing is not possible during the "curating" process? I can't import from my camera's SD card into Photos my MacBook Pro. It's the same SD card that's worked previously. Now, the Photos program recognizes the card, but it doesn't show any photo thumbnails for me to select and import anymore. I can find the jpg files through Finder and drag them to photos, but still nothing happens.

Thanks!

YOU are a GENIUS!! Thank you, MutantSquid! My camera is a Nikon Coolpix S9500 with a SanDisk 8GB card inside. Connecting my camera directly to my MBP worked like a charm! I may have to investigate Image Capture, on your suggestion. Now just to wait for the curating process as it inches towards completion! Thanks again!