photos missing on desktop & screen saver menu
Hello! I use a MacBook Air (M1,2020) and a few months ago an issue appeared - photos from the Photos app suddenly weren't showing on the desktop & screen saver menu anymore. Only a few of them are showing but most are not. On the second screenshot, you can see that a few photos from a week ago are showing. It's like it chooses at random to show some photos, but the rest is missing. Thаt's the case in the other folders too, but there are completely empty ones also. I use iCloud and all photos are backed up there and nothing is missing from the Photos app.
Unfortunately, I procrastinated on searching for a solution and now I don't remember what I did or what happened right before the issue appeared. I updated my MacBook recently, now I'm with Monterey 12.0.1 and it did not fix this issue.
And literally just now another random photo from a while ago appeared:
And I don't understand what the iCloud symbols mean either. There was one next to "Monterey Graphic" which disappeared and now there are two on some of the photos: