My photos app is stuck on Welcome to Photos where it says connect to camera, drag photos, choose import..., or connect top iCloud. I tried doing a repair. I still cannot access my photo library.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.13
If you previously had more photos in your Photos Library, you have to help Photos to find back to your main Photos Library.
Where have you been keeping your Photos Library? On an external volume or in your Pictures folder in your home folder? If you kept your Photos Library on an external drive, make sure, this drive is connected to your Mac.
Is there another Photos Library with more photos shown?
When you try to repair a library, Photos will always repair the library it has last opened by default. So your attempts to repair your library will have repaired the new, empty library.
To repair a different library, you have to select the library you want to repair in the Finder and double click it while holding down the key combination ⌥⌘. This way Photos will be launched using the selected library.
Are you really using this very old system version "macOS 10.13 High Sierra" or has a wrong system version been shown below your post?
If you previously had more photos in your Photos Library, you have to help Photos to find back to your main Photos Library.
Where have you been keeping your Photos Library? On an external volume or in your Pictures folder in your home folder? If you kept your Photos Library on an external drive, make sure, this drive is connected to your Mac.
Is there another Photos Library with more photos shown?
When you try to repair a library, Photos will always repair the library it has last opened by default. So your attempts to repair your library will have repaired the new, empty library.
To repair a different library, you have to select the library you want to repair in the Finder and double click it while holding down the key combination ⌥⌘. This way Photos will be launched using the selected library.
Are you really using this very old system version "macOS 10.13 High Sierra" or has a wrong system version been shown below your post?
Launch Photos with the Contorl key held down and create a new library. Then close that library and try opening your original library.
When you tried to create a new library did it open and what was the screen you saw?
walk_more wrote:
I used the option key while launching photos, created a new library but went to the same old screen. I see no way of deleting it.
Was that this screen:
When you get to this window you need to either. connect your iPhone to your Mac via its USB charging cable and open it or drag some image files into the window to import. That's an empty library.
It doesn't seem to open
It opened to the same screen
I used the option key while launching photos, created a new library but went to the same old screen. I see no way of deleting it.
Yes. That's the screen. Thanks for your help!
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