I Have just been migrating a large Aperture Library to the new Photos app. The import took many hours, and now just trying to quit, it is displaying the message "Closing the Library." This has been up for a couple of hours.
IS this a one-time saving of thumbnails, etc. or will this happen every time?
thank you,
Ross
Let mine run for 14 hours on "Closing the library" and it never finished. I had to force quit. Also tried letting Photos do its processing once opened. com.apple.photomodel process maxed CPU and was taking 39GB of RAM (obviously all in swap) and I finally force quit after 16 hours. Ugh. I've found so little info on what this photomodel process is actually doing. Ugh
Same issue, just started aftre a few mopmnths of using photos. Massive use of RAM and machine grinds to a halt. Eventually finishes after approx 12 hours but repeats every time I try to quit photos.
Tried repairing the library - no luck.
Eventually backed up photos library onto an external drive and deleted it from my mac mini. I then started photos again pointing it to my old iphoto library. This ran the transition process again. Photos now seems to be running like a champ.
I solved this problem going to Force Quit. Before doing that, I tried restarting the computer and I left the window up with the
message "closing iPhoto Library" overnight, but neither helped.
Thanks for suggesting the Force Quit process which worked immediately.
I think I may have to go this route, I have 6 ish years of phone and DSLR photos. running on a 2009 iMac. iPhoto had started repeating thumbnails two years ago, pairing them with the wrong actual photo. I had switched to packing up with image capture and giving up on an archive for the time being. Really want to start using Photos but I'm wondering if I just have too large of a collection for it to handle all at once. Thoughts? Worth starting from scratch and reimporting?
I'm suddenly having the same problem. After a few hours it will complete itself, but then the next time I launch Photos and try to quit it does it all over again. Definitely not a one-time thing for me.
-Brian
then obviously you have a different problem - please start a new three for your specific different problem
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LN
Err... no... it's the exact same problem. Only difference is that in my case it's not going away.
-Brian
Well if it is exactly the same problem then exactly the same solution will work - since that does not work then it is a different problem and needs a new thread with complete new information
not at all clear what part of that is not understandable -
and how you fail to understand the incongruence of you statement
it's the exact same problem. Only difference
IN any case good luck
LN
Aaaannyhow.... Can somebody with something useful to add to this please comment? I've read many other threads on this, and some people report that it fixes itself automatically, and other people report that it never fixes itself. So there must be something else that can be done to make this problem permanently fix itself. Does anyone even know what the application is doing when that dialogue comes up and it just sits there?
The OP asked "will this happen every time?"
I can also confirm that it is happening every time for me.
Thank you Daniel. This has helped!
After reading many of these post it's quite apparent that Apple's new Photo has a very serious issue, of which I have experienced two more not mentioned here.
(1) Not only does Photo say it's closing its library for way to long, but I've let my brand new 27" 5K iMac run for three days non-stop just to see if that message would ever go away and IT DID NOT.
(2) Force quite is a joke and does not work.
(3) So I tried to shut down my computer only for Photo to BLOCK shutdown with NO OVER RIDE option to force my computer to shut down anyway like I could with older Macs.
(4) If all this does not already take the cake aside from Apple's original iPhoto which is a superior product to the very disappointing Photo, Photo repeatedly crashes! Additionally Photo opens up the wrong photo to edit about half the time and when I delete a photo during Edit mode, it kicks my out of EDIT mode. But when I click on EDIT to resume, it kicks me all the way back to the very first image and does NOT even take me back into the EDIT mode. Now I have to search through hundreds of images to get back to the image I want to work on, and that's ONLY if Photo actually opens the correct image, otherwise Photo kicks my all the way back to the very first image once again!! This program is full of fatal bugs.
I could go on as there are other serious problems as well. Simply said, Apple Rolled out a new inferior photo program to replace Apple's original iPhoto which was a massive downgrade from the original iPhoto with tons of awesome features now removed. Sadly I bought Apple's mast advanced iMac just to use iPhoto only to learn that Apple has tossed their most advanced iPhoto processing software into the trash can!! Had I known this I would have NOT bought a new mac., Photo is only 1.0 which is the first version with no track record.
Had Apple pulled this same stunt with Logic Pro I would be looking at legal action to get my money back. Since Photo is Free, we get whatever bones Apple tosses our way, in this case a poorly thought out Photo program with lots of potential many years from now.
PS: I will now pull out the pig from my APPLE to FARCE shutdown. I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO TAKE SUCH DRASTIC ACTION!!
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Has anyone heard from Apple when the next version to fix the bugs in Photos will be released?
Has anyone heard from Apple when the next version to fix the bugs in Photos will be released?
No
LN
Photos displays "Closing the Library" for a loooong time when quitting
