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dingaling12 Author

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Photos stuck restoring on Mac

I'm on a Macbook Air 2019 running Monterey 12.6. I opened Photos yesterday and got the Restoring screen, with a tiny message at the bottom "iCloud Photos is not turned on. You can turn on iCloud Photos in Photos Preferences." It's true - ICloud Photos is not turned on. I don't want it turned on. I don't want to pay for extra icloud storage. And even if I wanted to, Photos Preferences is grayed out so I can't turn it on there. I left it restoring overnight and, of course, it never moved from 0%. Restarted and got the same thing. I can't do anything else in Photos. Help?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Nov 8, 2022 6:27 AM

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dingaling12 Author

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Posted on Nov 8, 2022 9:00 AM

Nevermind - I restarted yet again and now everything is fine.

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Photos stuck restoring on Mac

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