Preparing to move “Photos Library.photoslibrary” for hours

My computer is the Macbook Pro 2019 with a 2.6 GHz 6-core Intel Core i7. Somehow my photos all wouldn’t open saying it was in the trash so since i haven’t emptied out the trash yet I selected to “Put back”. Now my computer has been saying “Preparing to move to applications

Preparing to move ‘Photos Library.photoslibrary’” for the past 9 hours at this point and the file is only 8.7 GB what is taking so long. I understand that the file has files which is why it would take a while but it’s still going after so long

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Posted on Jan 19, 2024 7:01 PM

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léonie

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Jan 20, 2024 1:57 AM in response to shawdik

You wrote "“Preparing to move to applications"? that is strange, as the Photos Library needs to be in the Pictures folder or another folder in your Home folder but not in the Applications folder. The Photos.app should be in Applications, but not the Photos Library. Have you trashed the Photos Library or the Photos.app?

And quit Photos, if it is running, so the library is not in use by Photos. Then try again to move the Photos Library from the Trash to your Pictures folder.

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