My Photos app has stopped syncing to iCloud, and I can’t export photos
My Photos app is screwy on my M1 MBP.
- First, this is a new problem; it was working until recently (perhaps 2 weeks ago)
- It stopped syncing with iCloud
- It hangs if I try to export an image
- If I try to quit it warns me that I will lose the export in progress
- If I say Quit Anyway the red dot to close the app turn maroon and the app hangs; I have to force close the app
- I have tried restarting the Mac
- I have checked system memory and it shows “green” in activity monitor
- My drive has 1.4 TB free
- The Preferences pane looks wrong also; the Use as System Photo Library is greyed out. The show in Finder works:
I assume the database is somehow corrupted. I tried to restore a Time Machine backup of the database, but the database doesn’t appear in Time Machine at all.
I can try deleting the database and resyncing it from iCloud, but I would like some advice before doing anything further.
Fortunately, all of my photos are also synced to Google Photos, Dropbox and backed up to LiveDrive, so I won’t lose anything, just time and grey hairs.