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Q: Photos duplicates & wrong thumbnails after upgrade

So I finally got around installing Yosemite and now I'm starting to regret it. I have a library of maybe 10'000 photos that I used to store in iPhoto. After the Yosemite upgrade, my mac worked around the clock with the processing of the photos to move them to Photos or whatever it did (100% CPU use for maybe 6 hours).

 

Now however, I'm going to explain the really scary problems that I'm experiencing:

 

1. When walking through my library in the Photos-app, maybe 20-30 % of all photos (especially newly imported just before I switched OS) have either wrong or really messed up thumbnails. The photos seems OK first I open them, but I never know which photo I will open because the thumbnail is from a completely different picture.

2. Some pictures are now duplicate, with the exact same file name and file size. I'm afraid to remove them as I fear that it's actually another picture hiding behind the duplicate one that is showing? This is extremely frustrating.

 

My tries to solve the problems:

1. I have tried to remake the iPhoto events to Photos albums, did not change a thing.

2. I have tried to manually rotate photos to correct the thumbnails. Works 90 % of the time but I'm guessing I have thousands of mixed and faulty thumbnails so that's not really an option.

3. Repairing the library with the option+command control. Didn't change a thing.

 

What I haven't tried yet:

1. Using a duplicate finder tool. Mainly because I'm afraid to remove photos and because I don't know any good free one.

2. Smashing the laptop in the wall.

 

Specs:

Macbook Pro early 2011, 256 GB SSD, 8 GB RAM.

And yes I have a backup on TimeMachine, though I had to delete the old Mavericks one because the new Yosemite was too big to fit.

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)

Posted on Jul 6, 2015 9:46 AM

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  • by pinkapplemac,

    pinkapplemac pinkapplemac Aug 31, 2015 2:53 PM in response to dancypye
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    Aug 31, 2015 2:53 PM in response to dancypye

    Hello.

     

    I reinstalled the OS and am waiting on a call back from Apple as they have my database for examination. So, I have not tried to re-migrate the iPhoto library.

    Did you have to resize all your photos at once and how did you do that? How large is your libary?

     

    Also, my support person had a set time to call and did not. He was out of the office that day. When I finally called in they had a note saying they'd attempted to call me but it was a failed call - which isn't true. My faith in a new product is already sad!

     

    Thanks,

    H

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Aug 31, 2015 3:04 PM in response to dancypye
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    Aug 31, 2015 3:04 PM in response to dancypye

    Any change that requires redrawing the thumbnail will work - rotating and then rotating back is very easy to explain and to do so it is often used to redraw the thumbnails

     

    LN

  • by pinkapplemac,

    pinkapplemac pinkapplemac Aug 31, 2015 3:09 PM in response to LarryHN
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    Aug 31, 2015 3:09 PM in response to LarryHN

    Thanks, Larry.

     

    Not sure why Apple didn't offer this. They said my case was quite rare however I do see some posts. One that made me not want to attempt that is that that thread the OP (in another string) had said that it would correct one, then assign it again to another photo. I'm so new to all of this and it is a little intimidating. So, thank you.

    H

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Aug 31, 2015 3:12 PM in response to pinkapplemac
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    Aug 31, 2015 3:12 PM in response to pinkapplemac

    Sorry your use of Pronouns is not clear so I have no idea what you are asking - remember we can not see you

     

    LN

  • by Boskop,

    Boskop Boskop Dec 2, 2015 3:41 PM in response to dancypye
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    Dec 2, 2015 3:41 PM in response to dancypye

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!! - I am not a whiz at all this, and reading all the hints for  how to solve the problem of incorrect thumbnail images left me in despair.  BUT, your hint of resizing the photos did the trick - in less than a minute. I can hardly believe it!

  • by rachelad,

    rachelad rachelad Feb 4, 2016 3:29 PM in response to dancypye
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    Feb 4, 2016 3:29 PM in response to dancypye

    Thank you, thank you , thank you.  I had just resized to the smallest to do some organising & discovered the problem described above. So glad I found your post as I resized up again and all is well. 

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