Photos application with Serious Issue

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Photos application with Serious Issue

I was trying to copy photos from my hard drive to an external drive and that was successful. I am not able to delete any photos from the Photos app. I have many about 25 thousand photos, so I was trying a variety of ways to delete them. Nothing would delete and every time I tried any function, the system would hang up and not move requiring me to close the program via Force Quit (which I hate to do). Anyway now it says :The library could not be opened" and "Photos was unable to open the library "PhotosLibrary.photoslibrary".

I am looking for help on how to manage this error. I have a macOS Catalina Version 1.15.7 running on my MacBook Pro.

Would greatly appreciate support from an expert on this issue.

Thanks so much,

Cathy

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jul 26, 2021 5:09 PM

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Jul 26, 2021 11:23 PM in response to Harmerc

Hi

How did you copy the photos to the external drive? File>export? Drag>Drop from the app? Drag/Drop using finder?

The most likely reason for a library to fail to open, is damage to the library caused by storing it on an incompatible volume. Using a clean up app/duplicate file app that doesn't work correctly with a photos library, or changing the contents of the library with finder.

Where is your library stored? In your pictures folder, or somewhere else?

Have you ever used any clean up apps, speed up apps, or duplicate file removal apps?

Do you want to now delete ALL the images from the library?

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