Photos scanning stuck after upgrade to Big Sur?

Hey everyone,

I've upgraded to Big Sur and looking to get Photos to finish scanning. I do have access to the library, but it's showing scanning statuses in the Library and People tabs that are seem stuck (screens below). The 'photoanalysisd' process has zero activity even when leaving the computer idle over many nights. Does anyone have some tips on how to get Photos to complete these tasks?

I've tried various ways of 'idling' to get 'photoanalysisd' to kick in, with the app open and focused, app open and minimized, app closed,... many restarts.

Thanks, in advance, for your thoughts!

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.0

Posted on Nov 21, 2020 3:57 AM

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eRosso Author

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Posted on Feb 17, 2021 11:07 AM

I think I've solved this. Of course, it was corrupted photos, but scanning them visually would not have helped as the photos we're not obviously corrupt. Here's what I did:

Exported all unmodified originals of my entire (40k+) library to an external drive.
Paid for and Downloaded "Corrupt JPEG Checker" from the Mac App Store
- There may be a free way to do this, but $10 bucks was worth it for me to try
Scanned the exported library on the external drive with the JPEG Checker App
When the scan was done, I used the discovered list of photos on the external to point me to the ones that remained in my actual library
Once removed, the scanning continued on and completed.

I hope this helps.

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Feb 17, 2021 12:42 PM in response to doncarlosdon

Hi to all followers,

last day I hoped I had it.

When synchronising my entire Photos to my phone, I experienced some new behaviour.

I was told, it couldn't fullfill a complete Sync because there where some photos with a wrong format. "their format can't be converted.

13 photos out of nearly 74.000.

The corrupted files was written to a log, and I should tell the system where to save it.

"Great"/"Super" / "finally" ....

But but but ...

“” blev ikke kopieret til iPhone “jesper's Xs Max”, fordi dens format ikke kunne konverteres.

In English:

“” wasn't copy'ed to iPhone “jesper's Xs Max”, because it's format couldn't be converted.

Like standing with your pants down - and can only feel the cold wind ....

/Jesper

léonie

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Dec 2, 2020 6:39 AM in response to Jesper_Hansen

For my small libraries only a few thousand photos the cycle of "Curation Photos, creating layout, ..." takes only two days or so, but for my main library it has never finished since Catalina came out last year. It gets stuck at roughly 90% after each system update. The library seems just to be too large. I ignore the irritating message below the "Days". I rarely look at the "Days" anyway. It is least useful view, since it only is showing cropped versions of the photos and I cannot recognise my own photos by the cropped sections and the photos I am looking for are usually missing from the curated view.

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