Large photos album problems syncing
I have 1.3tb of photos (about 80,000 images and videos)
I have eventually managed to get my Mac mini running Mojave to keep the photos library up to date.
i have a dual boot on my Mac mini and I have the second boot on Catalina but on here I can't get in to my Apple account so my updated photos library will not update.
i also have a MacBook Pro with a 5tb external drive - it had a full copy of the Mojave photo library. This has now been updated to work with Catalina photos app - but i ham having a problem with the library updating. It has been trough several stages but never completes any of them after days of constant running.
it said it needed to upload them all to iCloud but there wasn't enough space and I can't buy more than 2tb so it runs and doesn't take up more space but never completes
after several reboots and killing processes it now says it is restoring from iCloud (which it doesn't need to do but) it is showing a full 100% blue line indicating it is about finished and has been like that for several days. I have also shut down and restarted and it still shows 100% restored but says it is still restoring.
Photos I have taken since this started are not yet showing on the MacBook Pro but are showing everywhere else.
I have tried repairing the album and everything else I have been able to find online - killing processes several times.
I am going away in a couple of weeks and want to spend some time editing my original photos and creating a new photo year book and holiday book. So I need photos on the Mac book pro to be working.
any additional ideas please.
apple needs to get iCloud and particularly photos sorted. Syncing full resolution photos when they are already synced is totally unnecessary - let's have some decent fixes from Apple support for these issues.
MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.15