Apple Photo non-stop for the last 3 hours

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Apple Photo non-stop for the last 3 hours

I have no issue with Photo app before upgrading to Catalina. But now (Catalina is installed completed), the photos app when launched, will begin to "gathering favorites / curating best photos / analysing scenes / composing layout" and it repeats these 4 tasks over and over and over again for hours. The status bar is somewhere at 85%

I want to know if it is actually working on something and is there a way I know how long more it will take.

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iMac 21.5: late 2013

MacOS Catalina 10.15

iMac 21.5", macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 28, 2019 12:32 AM

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jameshoty Author

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Oct 28, 2019 3:05 AM in response to jameshoty

It will do Analysing Scenes... Gathering Favorites... etc etc repeating for comic to more than 4 hours. And it hang the second time. The whole Mac is frozen. I can't switch windows, can't access to Apple menu, can't force quit. But I can Force shutdown.

I don't mind let it run for few days but it freeze after running for few hours and I feel my effort is wasted. There is no feedback about how much more they will do or at least the status bar showing the percentage (e.g. 89%).

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jameshoty Author

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Oct 28, 2019 6:24 AM in response to Lurkums

I exit Photo app and the photolibraryd is still appearing in Activity Monitor. Is this normal?

This problem happen after upgraded to Catalina. Is this a bug or that my photo library is too large that it cannot handle?

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Lurkums

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Oct 28, 2019 4:33 AM in response to jameshoty

Open Activity Monitor and look for tasks starting with photo. These tasks are not active all the time, and are given low priority. It will take as long as it takes, I'm afraid

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jameshoty Author

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Oct 28, 2019 6:42 AM in response to jameshoty

When I am about to give up, the process completed!

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Apple Photo non-stop for the last 3 hours

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