I get this error when I want to export some old photos from my library.
"missing cpl resource required for cpl download"
The photos are also not uploaded to iCloud like all the rest of my library.
I have seen many threads with this error, but you seem not to come up with any solution?
iMac 27″, macOS 11.5
Hi
Are you able to export the files? Or open them for editing?
If not, it is likely the original files are damaged or missing from the library, or are in a format no longer compatible with photos.
Try also exporting unmodified original.
Im unable to edit or export Them in any format.
I managed to find the original file located inside the iphotolib file. Then import that file and delete the dublicate.
But this is an error in the program and will take me hours to do with the 2124 files that have this error.
The error message "missing CPL resource" means, that Photos cannot find the original image file in iCloud Photos Library.
You wrote "The photos are also not uploaded to iCloud like all the rest of my library."
Do you mean, you checked on your iCloud webpage at www.icloud.com, if the photos are in iCloud? If they are not there, you have to recover them from your backups.
A common reason for this problem is, that you may have used "Optimize Mac Storage" and you local copy of the library has been incomplete, when you saved a copy of the library. And when you then switch to the incomplete copy of the library, Photos will be looking for the missing originals. If they have been deleted from iCloud in the mean time, you cannot reconnect them from iCloud. The same may happen, if the Mac with the Photos Library has been offline for a long time, and you have deleted photos from iCloud using a different device. Then you will get this error message, if you try to work with Photos before the library is again fully in sync with iCloud.
If you are using "Optimize Mac Storage" for your Photos Library, you have to be very careful to back up all original image files manually by downloading them from iCloud, as your Time Machine backup cannot save the optimized images.
Where is your library stored? If on an external drive, what is the format?
Do you or have you ever used any speed up, clean up or duplicate file removal apps? EG Clean my mac
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