Have installed the new Photos. Now have 2 libraries: Migrated Photo Library, and Photos Library.
When I try to open my new Photos Library I get the above message and "Photos was unable to repair permissions on your library" Have inspected the file and ensured I have read-write permissions.
What to do?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
Have inspected the file and ensured I have read-write permissions.
Where are your libraries stored? In your Pictures folder or on an external drive? If external drive, have you checked the permissions on the the drive itself? Is the "Ignore ownership on this volume" flag enabled? Is the drive locally mounted?
You repair the Photos library with the Photos app, not the Finder. Hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to repair
My new Photos library is on my MacPro (mid 2012)'s hard disk, in the Shared folder. I can open it in my user account, but my wife cannot when she tries to open it in her user account. It's she who keeps getting the permissions error msg when opening Photos. Thanks for your help, appreciated.
You can no longer share a library using the shared folder. See iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users - Apple Support
The library must be on an external drive formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) with ownership ignored
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Gawd, you mean to use the new Photos I have to go out and buy an external hard drive - which costs a lot - and USB it to my Mac, having transferred my Photolibrary to it? I am hoping that I am too dumb to have properly understood your (very kind thank you) reply!
Gawd, you mean to use the new Photos I have to go out and buy an external hard drive
No. You can move it to your Pictures folder and run it from there. It will work for you very well there.
Thanks Old Toad, but LarryHN above says we can no longer share it...at least I think he does but it is evident to everyone here that my Level is correctly designated as a Zero!
I only found out about this issue 'cos her iPad was full because of the iTunes photo syncing so we put her on iCloud Photos only to find it was uploading from her user account Pictures folder (we didn't even know she was accumulating pictures there!), not our Shared photo library in Shared. My impression from all the replies is that my wife and I will have to have separate, single-user Photolibraries. I imagine I create a new library in her user account/Pictures for her, and then import into it all those pictures from our current "shared" library that she wants. Then she'll see all her pics in her iCloud Photos on her iPad, not just the 70-odd she has so far unknowingly accumulated in her Pictures folder. But you'd think in this day and age we could share a photo album together!
I didn't say you could share it there. I was responding to your statement of: "Gawd, you mean to use the new Photos I have to go out and buy an external hard drive". And the answer to that was what I posted.
Replying to myself Ha.....a propos my above plan, I'm trying to drag the Library from Shared to her Pictures folder but msg always is:
“Family & Friends” can’t be opened right now because it’s being used by another task, such as moving or copying an item or emptying the Trash. Try again when the current task is complete."
The Library definitely isn't open.
I'm only trying to do this because I opened her base Library in Pictures and tried to import the Shared file, but it appears one cannot do this. So I thought I'd move the Shared Library to her Pictures, and then tell Photos this is her system library. Maybe there is some easy way of getting all of the 1000's of photos in the Shared Library over into her own Pictures Photolibrary?
Oh, sorry about that Old Toad, didn't mean to mislead you and most grateful for your taking the time. No, I started this thread because of the sharing a photo library issue, but I'm going to split our photos out between us as separate single-user libraries (if I can, problems as per above at the moment). Pity we can't share our pics anymore but the wife says she'll let me have a peek on birthdays and christmas. One of the myriad examples of how this brave new "sharing" digital world is leading people further apart, and more into themselves.
That's something to ask Apple to restore via https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html
I managed to move the Photos Library to Pictures from Shared, but when she tries to open it in Photos the same message still appears:
"An error occurred while repairing permissions. Photos was unable to repair permissions on your library."
Is this the Pictures folder in her account? If so have her launch Photos with the Command+Option keys held down and repair the library.
Yes, I am logged into her account and working on it there. Yesterday I did manage to move the existing Shared Photo Library (with all her pics) to her Pictures folder, then I suppose dumbly I deleted the base Photos Library there (placed by the installation) as I thought she wouldn't need that one. Now when I Cmd+Ctrl open as you suggest the message is "Photos cannot find the System Photo Library". I can't find the one I deleted in Trash, to restore. It invites choosing another - which of course I'd like to be the Photos library created of all her old pics from iPhoto when Photos was installed - but of course this can't open because of the permissions situation! Maybe I need to try to discover whether it's possible to reinstall Photos as then presumably it would recreate the base Photos Library in her Pictures folder, but of course it came virtue of the OS upgrade.
UPDATE: Ah, I DID find deleted Photos Library (base from upgrade) and now her Photos app does open. No pics there of course - but progress. Now to somehow import into that all her old pics yes?
I deleted the base Photos Library there (placed by the installation)
Unless you have a backup of that library that you can restore to her Pictures folder it's gone for good. If you don't already have a backup strategy for your Mac I'd get one started ASAP. The one easiest to enable is to use Time Machine (included with all Macs) with an external HD. This Apple document describes it: Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac - Apple Support.
There are apps like SubrosaSoft FileSalvage that can find deleted files on your hard drive and restore them if they haven't been overwritten yet. It has a demo version that you can use to see if it can find enough of the image files in that library to make it worth while purchasing it. It's not inexpensive. Other file recovery applications are available and discussed here: http://data-recovery-software-review.toptenreviews.com/mac-recovery-software/
error occurred while repairing permissions
