iCloud Photos. How long to complete.
Hi. Over the weekend I decided to take the plunge and switch over to iCloud Photos, enabling it on out 20year+ library.
At there start of the process our library was approx. 200GB in size with ~43k photos.
The first problem was that the update stalled with no errors. This turned out to be because the local copy of the library had filled up the external drive. I moved the library to my local drive and the process seems to have completed. The bottom of the "All Photos" has the image count and "Updating..."
After 48 hours of updating the local library size on disk is current 205GB - yesterday it was over 300GB.
According to iCloud preferences Photos are using ~95GB on the Cloud.
I've also switched over to iCloud Photos on my iPhone and iPad (all images from both had been manually imported into Photos before turning on iCloud Photos)
Those have had 2 nights of updating and are listing ~21k photos - more than they had before the switch on - but are missing photos from approx. 2000 - 2013. Both devices show "Update Just Now" under the "All Photos" tab
I'm assuming that the Macbook is still in the process of updating the Library (the only evidence being the shrinking Library size) and that the iPad and iPhone will catch up over the next couple of days.
Should I just leave the Macbook plugged in with Photos open in the background?
MacBook Air, macOS 12.4
