After upgrading to 12.0.1 the Photos app shows 0 Photos scanned / 12,110 remaining. It's been 3 days. The power is plugged in. Activity Monitor shows the CPU is 97% idle.
I need to find photos for a celebration of life event tomorrow. Is the "People" feature no longer supported? Does this reset for every n.0.x update? Is there a way to force Photos app to use some of the 97% CPU idle to scan faces?
MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
Hi elizabethfromcambridge,
in my case, for "scanning Photos/Faces/People", it worked to activate the Energy Saver feature "Prevent your Mac from automatically sleeping ...". The screensaver was active, and the screen of my iMac was off over night.
What I did in detail:
For me, this has worked several times (e.g. after using the Repair function of Photos.app) to get about 40.000 photos/pictures scanned.
Reset Suggested People doesn't seem to fix the problem either.
But one questions is unanswered yet: are there any log messages of photoanalysisd to check and if so how can one see that?
And why has that worked for me on Big Sur? Or have they removed the exFAT access logic?
> Or have they removed the exFAT access logic?
Later Big Sur versions have an error alert when a user tries to open a Photos library on a non-Mac volume.
> Later Big Sur versions have an error alert when a user tries to open a Photos library on a non-Mac volume.
Can I see these errors in some log? How can I achieve that?
The exFAT thing is irrelevant to this issue. But, if you keep your library on an ExFAT volume you *will* lose data.
@bwadma, thank you for the clear steps. I'll report back with results later!
sitelog wrote:
If only it was easier.....and reliable.
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Ok.
And how can I get the process' log messages? Is that maybe
tail -f /var/log/com.apple.xpc.launchd/launchd.log | grep photoanalysisd
?
And how can I increase the verbosity? Maybe with launchctl?
Btw: the test photo library I created today with that single picture in it not lying on an external drive is still not parsed. Maybe you try it out by yourself. Install macOS 12.0.1 and create a new photo library. Make that new library to your new system library. Add one picture with some clearly visible faces in it. Close your Photo app and wait. You will see the photoanalysisd process nearly immediately consume CPU resources but hours later you will still see "0 Photos scanned" in your Persons section..
NAS is the store to backup the taken photos and videos from the phones -> rsync to external T5 -> import photos and videos into media library. No reference from the media library to the NAS at all. And works. At least worked until Monterey.
> I just launch the app and look. Have you tried that?
Of course. And also after closing it. But no message at all. That's why I asked how to raise the verbosity.
> ExFAT
Photos libraries should be stored on MacOS Extended or APFS volumes. Non-Mac formats or network shares are not supported and might corrupt the library.
0 Photos scanned