Running Photos on macOS Catalina on MBPro 2016, I have had the following message for the past 48 hours: "Updating People.... People will finish updating when Photos is in the background". I need to re-tag some of my pictures which were mis-identified, but seem stuck with the above message. How do I solve?
Is there also a button "open People album" in this panel? If yes, click it. If not, you will have to wait for the faces scan to finish. It may take a few days for a large library. Do as Phots says "People will finish updating when Photos is in the background" - minimize Photos to the Dock overnight, while you are not working with your Mac, but keep the Mac connected to power and he internet.
My photos library has less photos than yours, only 53000 photos and videos, but still it took Photos more than two weeks to finish the the scan for faces and to recognize all all objects in the scene after each major upgrade of the system. Particularly scanning the videos for faces takes a very long time. I let Photos do its thing, as long as I am seeing some progress.
Thanks leonie. I don't seem to locate an "open People album" button when I run Photos on my MacBook Pro. While I am aware that it is a compute intensive task to consolidate faces, my MBPro is pretty powerful and has plenty of memory. It still seems to me that it takes Photos an incredible amount of time to do the work. I admit that my library is huge (70K pictures), but I regularly tag People in Photos since I started using the App (several years ago) and this time around, it appears that Photos is somehow "spinning" indefinitely. Once a week has passed running Photos in the background, I will get really worried.
That is somewhat reassuring. I will keep waiting and trust that Photos will do its magic. Thanks
Photos - Been in the following state for 48 hours "Updating People.... People will finish updating when Photos is in the background". How to resolve?
