Photos does not import any photos anymore. I select my pictures to import, click on import and then Photos switches to Imports but nothing happens.
Photos is on an external HD, I'm using MacOS Sonoma 14.5 and the version 9.0 of Photos. This used to work just fine in the past and from one day to the other it just stopped.
Does anyone know what the issue is?
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MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 14.5
How is your external drive formatted? To avoid damaging the Photos Library an external drive must be formatted in either APFS format or Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. Additionally, the drive can not have had Time Machine on it since it was formatted. There have been so many problems with using incompatible drives that the newest macOSs won't even allow a Library on a non-Mac formatted drive to open, since there is a chance of damaging the Photos database. See this:
Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac - Apple Support
How is your external drive formatted? To avoid damaging the Photos Library an external drive must be formatted in either APFS format or Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. Additionally, the drive can not have had Time Machine on it since it was formatted. There have been so many problems with using incompatible drives that the newest macOSs won't even allow a Library on a non-Mac formatted drive to open, since there is a chance of damaging the Photos database. See this:
Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac - Apple Support
Photos are not importing anymore from an external HD to my MacBook Pro running Sonoma
