Photos app not working after Sonoma 14 upgrade

I tried everything that was suggested by Apple Support, nothing worked. I then read somewhere that the Photos Library only works now from the Pictures folder. Because of the size of my library I had stored it on an external hard drive, this worked up until recently. I wonder why, hmmn?

Finally I did this.

1. Restart the Mac
2. Connect it directly to your router (WIFI is probably too unstable)
3. Copy the Photos library (Photos Library.photoslibrary) from its current folder to the Pictures Folder
4. The copy might end with an error saying that the file already exists and leaves an incomplete copy in the Pictures folder.
5. Check that the file size is as close as you can get to the original Photos library (it might not recover all)
6. Duplicate the incomplete copy in the Photos Library this will create a copy you can use.
7. Open Photos using the duplicated version you should now be able to see all of your photos in their Albums, etc.
8. If you are satisfied remove the incomplete copy as you can't use this anyway.

I hope this works for you.

I actually finally got this fixed. Took to a local computer store and they backed it up then wiped everything and reinstalled from the back-up. Then it said it was in the wrong place. I think the root cause of the issue was my library was saved to like the wrong folder or something, and the computer couldn’t identify it, and also for some reason I had multiple libraries.

Did you ever resolve this? Having the same issue.

My SSD. The app works up to the point of not importing. It recognizes my iPhone, asks to import all new photos and then the little white circle just sits there looking pretty. Nothing actually gets imported.

I'm having similar issues with the photos app after Sonoma, it says the permissions are wrong and I need to repair it, I try and repair it and it sits there for days not doing anything. Seems the photos app is botched with Sonoma. Disappointing.

Did anyone ever find a streamlined solution for this? Says that my photo library is on iCloud drive and I need to transfer it to my mac to view the photos. The only changes I made was upgrading to Sonoma a few days ago - photo library worked just fine before that.

Photo app not showing any pics. When I go to settings in the app and click on iCloud it says iCloud features for Photos are only available in the System Photo Library. It appears that library is empty even though it worked previously and had over 25k pics. I can open photos on my iPhone and iPad with no problem and they’re syncing to iCloud normally. For some reason iCloud and my Mac are not syncing photos all of a sudden?! Under the General tab in photo it shows the library location in the Pictures folder > Photos Library.photoslibrary

Where is your library stored?

No, no change to the problem. Don't know if there is a setting or something I need to change.

Hi,

How did you manage to resolve the problem or did it "self-resolve"?

I'm struggling right now.

I'm just waiting on the next update to see if it fixes things. If not I'll have to wipe everything and back-up from a time machine backup I guess.