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Photos beachballs - on Mojave

I have an iMac with plenty of storage and ram etc = run Mojave still = other apps running fine but Photos won't open = it's beachballing. Not sure of the next steps. I can force quit but did that before and it's still beach balling ==

iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 10.14

Posted on Apr 30, 2022 11:03 AM

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Posted on May 1, 2022 1:29 AM

Hi


Where is your library stored? If on an external drive, what is the format?


If on the internal drive, try a library repair (hold down CMD and OPT while starting photos) - note the repair can take a long time, hours or even a day or two for a large library.

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May 4, 2022 1:07 PM in response to Victoria Herring

I did just try to open a new library [create a new one] - the dialog box came up listing libraries and I selected Create NEW == and now Photos is trapped == I can't quit it [a box comes up that says you can't quit Photos while it is creating or opening a library] - and it's not doing anything -- Photos is on my main machine [iMac] as was the one I was trying to open == it's 116G

Photos beachballs - on Mojave

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