Thumbnails in my Photo Albums do not show up even after i rebuilt the library. what am i doing wrong

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Thumbnails in my Photo Albums do not show up even after i rebuilt the library. what am i doing wrong

I have had some problems recently with the Albums in my Photos Library not showing up....I have tried everything that I can think of. I have tried rebuilding my Photos Library several times, it would recreate the thumbnails (I believe it did it correctly) but the Albums that I have created show up with nothing in them. I have a HUGE amount of photos in my Photos Library (over 100,000) but not sure what I should do. Right now it is uploading (again) all 100,000 photos & videos.

iMac with Retina 5K display, macOS 10.14

Posted on Mar 30, 2020 7:49 AM

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léonie

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Mar 30, 2020 9:09 AM in response to burdell1

As far as I can tell, Photos will be showing the photos in the albums only after the upload to iCloud has been compleated. When you repair an iCloud Photos Library, Photos will treat the repaired library as a completely new library, that needs merging into the existing iCloud Photos Library. It will upload the library again to compare it to the items in iCloud and solve conflicts between duplicates and the local albums and the albums in iCloud. Most of the albums returned after the synced library has been downloaded again to my Mac. I would wait for the current sync to finish, before you try anything. Repairimg again will just start the upload again.

Can you still see your albums at www.icloud.com in the Photos.app?

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Thumbnails in my Photo Albums do not show up even after i rebuilt the library. what am i doing wrong

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