Photos library no access
Suddenly I cannot access my photos library. It was available a few days ago, today the library is ‘not recognised’. What has happened?
iMac 27″, macOS 14.2
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Tell us more. Do you use iCloud to synchronize Photos on your devices? Where is your Library located-- is it in the Pictures Folder? It would be named Photos Library.photoslibrary. Or is your Library on an external drive?
Try these steps:
- Restart the computer (of course)
- Re-start in Safe Mode. This bypasses certain potentially disruptive processes. Safe Mode is different for different computers, so see this:
Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support
- Use another library if you have one, or make a small test Library with a few pictures in it and see if the same thing happens. You can create a new library by closing Photos and then option-clicking on the Photos icon.
- Rebuild your Photos Library--close Photos and re-launch by option-command-clicking the app icon.
- Make a new user and see if the same problem recurs with it
Let us know what happens -- when we know how this turns out, we can do more if needed.