Photos update taking forever in macOS Catalina

Its been a couple of weeks since I upgraded my MacBook Pro OS to Catalina. My photos update is taking forever to complete. So far only 4% despite leaving the machine on for several days!

MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 26, 2019 10:04 PM

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Posted on Oct 27, 2019 2:33 PM

my photos after "successful" Catalina upgrade #1 (meaning there are lots of problems, but the upgrade process seems concluded) has now been running for 2 weeks almost 100% of the time... "on power" and just stuck at 25% in a seemingly endless loop "gathering favorites, analyzing scenes, detecting duplicates, , curating best photos, composing layout".

How long should this go on for? i have 114GB of photos.

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Photos update taking forever in macOS Catalina

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