Upgrade to Yosemite and Turn on iCloud Photo Lib.
OK, just upgraded to Yosemite and want to setup iCloud Photo Library. Sequence of events:
- Upgraded to Yosemite
- Fired up Photos.
- Hit "Get Started"
- Hit "Use iCloud Photo Library"
- It said, "Preparing Library..."
- It got up to 13% and then said, "Photos was unable to make a copy of your library before preparing it. There were file system or hardware issues..."
- I'm trying out all of the things mentioned on "If Photos can’t copy or create a library - Apple Support" no signs of disk corruption (before upgrading, I ran the drive through Diskwarrior, and Disk Utility sees no problems now, although it did do some permission fixing). I'm in the process now of copying to an external drive, even if only so that I'll have a backup later.
Nevertheless, a more-fundamental question: Is this copy it's failing on...
- A copy internally from one file to another, such as to update its format from older iPhoto world to the new Photos format, or...
- Is it *the* copy from my HD out onto iCloud?
If this copy is just an initial transfer to a new Photos format (and if it can do that from the copy on the external drive better) then that would be a one-time thing, and it's fine. If, however, I have to then subsequently always have my photo library on then external HD, then ... not so good. If it is *the* copy up to iCloud, then obviously that won't be an issue.
Related question: Would it be preferable to let Photos set everything up in its own world, entirely locally, and then afterward turn on iCloud Photo Library?
Thanks for the thoughts!
Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), 8x2.8GHz, 2560x1600 Cinema HD
