Big Sur Photos Upgrade

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Big Sur Photos Upgrade

I decided to leave the land of 32-bit applications yesterday so I updated Mojave -> Big Sur (skipping Catalina altogether because System Update didn't list it as an option).

I took a few hours to download and install, but there were no irregularities.

When I opened Photos, it wanted to update the library (of 40K+ photos) which took a few more hours. After it finished the upgrade, it started examining the photos and the progress bar has stopped about 25% complete. It keeps cycling between: Detecting Duplicates, Curating Best Photos, etc.)

It's been doing this for over 18 hours.

What do I do?

iMac 27″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Oct 3, 2021 12:57 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 3, 2021 2:06 PM in response to Nello Lucchesi

When I looked at Activity Monitor, I was reminded that I run BOINC (https://boinc.berkeley.edu/) in the background.

When I quit BOINC, the review process seemed to speed up. Photos is still getting only 4-8% of the CPU time (80-90-% idle) but the photos displayed at the bottom are flipping much faster so maybe Photos was CPU constrained.

I'll just let it keep running.

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Answer 2

Oct 4, 2021 6:50 AM in response to Nello Lucchesi

Finally finished.

Activity Monitor reports CPU Time 29:35.71

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Answer 3

Oct 3, 2021 3:13 PM in response to Nello Lucchesi

It seems to be cycling the same pictures on the bottom.

Activity lists the Photos process as having used 23:32.35 in CPU Time. Seems like a lot to me.

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