My Photos program (by the way the program name is so common makes it very hard to search for tips online) is always processing...removing duplicates, analyzing scenes, etc. Even left it on the entire day and overnight and still it is like that. What does that mean, and what should i do about it?
Mac mini 2018 or later
How long has it been doing this for? Have you made any major changes to your library recently, added a large number of photos, etc?
Generally you should just leave it to do its thing, it can be quite slow and if you have a large library 100GB+, it is not unusual for it to take more than 5 days to sync.
Yes I would take a short break somewhere hot and come back in a week! Irrespective of how fast your broadband connection is, I think Apple throttles the bandwidth used by an individual when re-syncing a very large library to ensure that its servers are not overloaded.
Make sure your Mac is left powered on overnight.
Yes sorry i left that very important part out. I had a 2-3 yrs old mac mini with a Photos library (on an external SSD), i purposely wanted to start fresh (not use time machine/backups) on a brand new M1 mac mini i just got yesterday, and had just set the system photos library to point to Photos library on external SSD, about 280GB. When i pointed to it, it keep processing.
Thanks I will check back in a week or so then!
My Photos program is always processing...removing duplicates, analyzing scenes, etc. What does it mean and what should i do?
