My System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver has a menu item called "Photos" which has submenus of "Favorites," "People," "Shared," and "Albums"; but all of these have no content on the right side when I click on them. See attached screenshots.
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.6
SOLVED IT.
In Find Any File app, I searched for files named "desktoppicture"; and one of the files was DesktopPictures.prefpane, contained in the following folder:
"/System/Library/PreferencePanes/DesktopScreenEffectsPref.prefPane/Contents/Resources/DesktopPictures.prefPane"
I double-clicked on it, and the System Preferences opened with a window saying that I had to install this before using it ("Do you want to install this for all users?").
I clicked OK, and now the Photos.app albums contents are listed.
SOLVED IT.
In Find Any File app, I searched for files named "desktoppicture"; and one of the files was DesktopPictures.prefpane, contained in the following folder:
"/System/Library/PreferencePanes/DesktopScreenEffectsPref.prefPane/Contents/Resources/DesktopPictures.prefPane"
I double-clicked on it, and the System Preferences opened with a window saying that I had to install this before using it ("Do you want to install this for all users?").
I clicked OK, and now the Photos.app albums contents are listed.
Start with this...
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode? Could take 10 minutes or more.
Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.
To find out if it's system wide or user specific, try this...
Open System Preferences>Users & Groups, unlock the lock, click on the little plus icon, make a new admin account, log out & into the new account.
Does it work in the new account?
I tried using EasyFind to search for the string "Photos Library" on my MBP, and most of the results were localizable language files, but I found two that mentioned "errors" with the library:
In the file "/private/var/log/install.log", there is this:
2022-10-31 17:47:22-05 MacBook-Pro-2019 mbfloagent[795]: Photos: found System Photo Library: /Users/[my name]/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary
2022-10-31 17:47:22-05 MacBook-Pro-2019 mbfloagent[795]: Photos: findURLToUpgrade /Users/[my name]/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary, error: (null), upgradeType: 2
2022-10-31 17:47:22-05 MacBook-Pro-2019 mbfloagent[795]: Photos: findURLToUpgrade /Users/[my name]/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary, error: (null), upgradeType: 2
2022-10-31 17:55:56-05 MacBook-Pro-2019 mbfloagent[795]: Photos: findURLToUpgrade /Users/[my name]/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary, error: (null), upgradeType: 2
In the file "/Library/Application Support/com.bombich.ccc/fcy_debug.5191F29F-B880-4465-9319-330D1709F45D.log," there is this, relating to a Carbon Copy Cloner backup of my photos library:
CCE_SIGL| 03/03 15:56:11 Physical size mismatch: /Volumes/Bootable Backup CCC/Users/photoshare/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/resources/derivatives/thumbs/4132.ithmb_WTYk: source: 6152, dest: 5944. Unpunched holes: 0
I have no idea whether this is relevant.
All right, these are the files found that have the word "photo" in their names:
com.apple.cloudphotod.plist
com.apple.photolibraryd.plist
Photos.sqlite
Photos.sqlite
com.apple.Photos.plist
Photos.sqlite.aside
Update_Images_from_Photos_Library.scpt
com.apple.Photos.CPLDiagnose
com.apple.Photos.Migration
photolibraryd
com.apple.Photos.librarychooserservice
com.apple.photoanalysisd.plist
com.systweak.Duplicate-Photos-Fixer-Pro.plist
keyedobjects-101300.nib
keyedobjects.nib
keyedobjects-101300.nib
keyedobjects.nib
Find Larger and Smaller by Selected Size.zip
com.apple.PhotoLibraryMigrationUtility.plist
And these have the word "desktop":
desktoppicture.db
DesktopPictures
To find out if it's system wide or user specific, try this...
Open System Preferences>Users & Groups, unlock the lock, click on the little plus icon, make a new admin account, log out & into the new account.
Does it work in the new account?
I restarted in safe mode, but got the same result.
While I was in safe mode, I ran Onyx and executed all of the maintenance scripts:
Nothing changed.
Rebuilt my Photos library. No improvement.
It does not work. Albums are listed, but no photos appear.
Find Any File...
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.php
Hold Option or alt key when selecting Find to Find All.
You already posted this.
Great work my friend! :)
Photos do not appear in Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane
