Photos Application Not Indexing All Photo Locations?
Hello!
I just started using the Photos application in Monterey after many years without using a photo managing app. I have a USB hard drive with thousands of photos - all of them taken with some version of the iPhone. These photos are all in a single Photos folder on the USB hard drive, but within the main Photos folder there are some sub folders that I've made over the years to sub-organize my pictures. So I made the main Photos folder on this external hard drive my "library" in the Photos app. This seems to have basically worked, as all my thousands of pictures are now viewable in the Photos app. However, if I click the "places" option in Photos, only the first 3 pictures - which I imported first and separately from the rest - have a location on the map. In other words, except for those first 3 photos, all of the other "imported" photos do not show their locations in "Places". However, the pictures will show their location if opened individually in Photos, so they all have their GPS metadata included in the import. It seems that something happened with the import of the second, much larger batch of photos. Does anyone know if there's a way to fix this without a very time consuming re-importing of everything? Also, is there a "best practices for Photos app" way to import or perhaps arrange so many photos when they are stored on an external drive? I do have backups of my photos BTW. Any help is greatly appreciated!!
Mac mini 2018 or later