Large Photos Library on external drive
On new iMac, OS 12.1, my Photos Library is on an external hard drive. I recently Ejected it, and connected it to a different iMac to update the library. When I connected it back to the new iMac again, and tried to open Photos, an Updating Library... window opened with 0% completed and no movement for a long time, eventually it got to 5%.
The library is very large, over 400 GB, is that why it is taking so long to update? Will Photos eventually work from this external hard drive? (I will not use iCloud Drive for Photos)
I never had this problem on my old Mac OS 10.15.7.
Is this an issue with OS Monterey?
Is there a workaround?
BTW: my new Mac (Name: Amanda's 2021 iMac JS) does not appear on Devices list. How to add?
ARD 27"iMAC 2014 JS, iMac 27″