mediaanalysisd burning up CPU since upgrading to Catalina

Everything was fine until Catalina. Now the process mediaanalysisd is eating up CPU making my MacBook Air very laggy. I have to force stop it but I cannot trash it like Apple has suggested in the past. I see this as a chronic problem but Apple seems to have chosen to ignore it.

Anybody have a solution to this?

Jeff

MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 20, 2019 11:12 AM

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Barney-15E

Level 10

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Oct 20, 2019 3:44 PM in response to OptionGuru

It should stop when it has analyzed all of your photos for faces and such.

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