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Imported RAW images and now sync is broken - help...

About a week ago I imported images from a Nikon D7000 SD-card into Photos (running Catalina 10.15.7) I didn't notice that the D7000 had shot the images in JPEG+RAW so half of the files were actually RAW-photos.

The import and upload seemed to have been working fine initially, but yesterday I noticed that my Mac and iPad no longer syncs new photos. My iPhone still syncs fine (meaning I can see the recent photos on icloud.com but they don't show up on the other devices.)

Both my iPad and Mac said "transferring" stuck since September 7 (the day I imported the images).

Yesterday I tried to repair the Library on the Mac as indicated here - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204967 - and Photos on the Mac has been stuck on "Restoring from iCloud..." since then.

My library contains ~7000 images and the Library file local on the Mac is 28 GB in size so it can't be super slow to download over a 250 MBps fiber.

What should I do and what can I do not to lose my images?

Any help greatly appreciated!

/Mattias

Posted on Sep 16, 2021 9:58 AM

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Mattias Sandstrom Author

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Posted on Sep 22, 2021 11:32 PM

Finally found a solution on MacRumours forum that worked after creating a new Photo Library and assigning it System Photos Library.

Logged out of iCloud and restarted the Mac while zapping PRAM.

Now all my libraries (Mac, iPhone and iPad) are in sync and updating properly

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/cloudphotod-going-crazy-with-cpu-usage-disk-writes.2209412/?post=28191652#post-28191652

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