pre-Tahoe I used to have a exfat jetdrive trascend card, my photo library was there. NO problems. With Tahoer, I only get read only access to the card. I cannot open, import or repair the photo librey, or even copy it and paste it into the macbook harddrive. Any ideas in how to fix this awful tahoe mess?
MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 26.2
You've been lucky, and now your luck has run out.
A Photos library has to sit next to a volume formatted Mac OS X Extended, Journaled or apfs. If it's put on an inappropriately formatted volume issues arise eventually - as is the case. Among those issues is silent corruption of the library, leading to the kinds of issues you are seeing. This is not a Tahoe issue, this has been the way since the app was released.
First step: move the library to an appropriately formatted volume. If you're lucky that will solve your issues. If not post back and perhaps we can help you more.
I would also point out that Apple advise against placing the library on small cards such as this as it believes them to lack the robustness for the housing the library.
esanudo wrote: … I cannot … even copy it and paste it into the macbook harddrive.
That is certainly disturbing! Usually a Photos Library package on an ExFAT drive can be copied even though it can't be used while on there. It may be that you need to use the Mac's Disk Utility to examine the card and use First Aid on it.
Do you have backups for this Library?
photo Library recovery form exfat jetdrive card
