photos freezes when delete 20000 pictures

Spring cleaned OS Photos Catalina, tried to permanently delete 21000 pictures and Photos freezes all the time.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jun 1, 2020 11:09 AM

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léonie

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Jun 1, 2020 11:40 AM in response to stevefromcholet

It is aver to delete photos in smaller batches. I had never problems with deleting a thousand photos at a time, but I had it occasionally happen, that the Recently Deleted album could not be emptied, if it has been very full.

Try to empty Recently Deleted in smaller batches by selecting no more than thousand items at a time to delete them permanently.

Jun 1, 2020 12:35 PM in response to léonie

Thanks I'll do that so far per 2000 it works

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