Exporting photos from Photos to Desktop. For a few days I've seen a snippet about an eBay payment via my bank card in the field where I used to type the name for my photo. I've uploaded two photos. In the second option, I am unable to type anything into the field.
When listing on eBay, I sometimes see little text popups about other sites, like Godaddy. I wonder what is going on.
MacBook Air 13″
Pretty crazy! You haven't said if your are using iCloud Photos. If so, do you use Optimize Storage?
Do you use a VPN? How about Mac "Cleaners" or "Virus Catchers?" These are all known to interfere with database operations on the Mac, and they have also been found to corrupt Photos Libraries. If you have any of these things, you should remove them from your computer.
After that, try these things:
1) Restart the computer (of course)
2) Re-start in Safe Mode. This bypasses certain potentially disruptive processes, and it often helps. Safe Mode is different for different computers, so see this:
Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support
3) Rebuild your Photos Library--close Photos and re-launch by option-command-double-clicking the app icon. If you use iCloud Photos, it’s possible that this will cause a re-sync that lasts long enough to make you nervous. I usually turn off wifi when I do this.
4) 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. If you use iCloud Photos, that won't connect with this new Library. You can return to the original Library by using the option-click method above.
5) Make a new user and see if the same problem recurs with it. This is a bit harder, because a new user can't access a different user's stuff. You would need to temporarily move your Library out of your own user's Pictures folder up to the general "Users" folder.
The idea is to find out if the problem is with the Library, with your account, or with caches and login items, and stuff like that. One of these steps may fix the problem, but their failure to work also helps figure out what's happening.
Let us know what happens…
Richard.Taylor wrote:
So-- this is not unique! I'll post a reference to this place.
Same user. I was just trying (apparently too subtly) to let you know the OP had a second thread going. ;-)
Rats-- I really should've looked…
The link is now there, anyhow.
Thank you very much, Idris. 😊
As far as I can see, there is a hole in the software and something bad has happened. ChatGPT has fixed it with a very simple command cut and paste.
I received an email notification of a post you made but when I clicked on the link it took me to a restricted page which I could not view.
Unexpected text and inability to type in Photos export naming field
