photos crashing on catalina

I'm not entirely sure if this will work for everybody's library but the crashing on my MacBook Pro has reduced significantly upon disabling 'Autoplay Videos and Live Photos' in Preferences for Photos. I repaired my library thereafter and I'm only seeing the crashes every 40 photos or so, as opposed to every other photo beforehand. This shouldn't have to be a compromise we have to make but it's a temporary workaround in my case. Let me know if this changes anything in your use cases!

For each MacBook download and run Etrecheck. Etrecheck is a diagnostic tool that was developed by one of the most respected users here in the ASC and recommended by Apple Support  to provide a snapshot of the system and help identify the more obvious culprits that can adversely affect a Mac's performance.

Copy the report

and use the Add Text button to include the report in your reply. How to use the Add Text Feature When Posting Large Amounts of Text, i.e. an Etrecheck Report

IMPORTANT:

Before running Etrecheck assign Full Disk Access to Etrecheck in the Etrecheck's Privacy preference pane so that it can get additional information from the Console and log files for the report:

Also click and read the About info to further permit full disk access.

Then we can examine the report and see if we can determine what might be causing the problem.

Same issue. Recently ‘upgraded’ to Catalina and now Photos crashes all the time! Never had the issue before in all the last 8 yrs using a Mac

It’s definitely an issue with Catalina because it does it on both MacBooks in my house

Its a terrible update and it’s ruined my Mac’s

Hi,

Please find attached Etre report - in my desperation I did download Onyx, but it hung when I tried to run it, so I deleted it straight away.

Thks

Russ