Q: Photos.library won't open once moved to iCloud folder.
Hi. I discovered something that raised the hairs on my back, my Photos libraries won't open once moved to the iCloud folder. Photos are worth its weight in gold and of course we want to save them forever so i decided to store them in the cloud, and what could be better than Apples cloud.
But, after they were uploaded i wanted to check if everything was ok but NO, NONE of my near 100GB libraries would open. And yes, i waited to all of them was done uploading.
Just to check and confirm i made a second folder and placed one of my libraries there, just one. Waited until it was uploaded and then tried to open it, but NO, it would not open and it said it was damaged like the other libraries.
And before someone ask, yes I'm talking about the cloud folder, iCloud. Not the main Photo library that syncs with my other Apple devices.
Anyone else have experienced this or know what to do and how to solve this ?
Regards
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)
Posted on Oct 27, 2015 10:42 PM
my Photos libraries won't open once moved to the iCloud folder.
Photo Libraries do not work, if you place them onto synced volumes. None of my test libraries survived being put onto iCloud Drive or into a Dropbox folder.
Apple did not write anywhere, if a Photo library can be kept on a network volume or in a synced folder, but from my experiments the same holds as for iPhoto Libraries and Aperture libraries, the structure of the library packages is very similar. And for Aperture libraries and iPhoto Libraries we know:
Also, it is strongly recommended that the Aperture library be stored on a locally mounted hard drive. Storing the Aperture library on a network share can also lead to poor performance, data corruption, or data loss.
See:Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library
To rescue your libraries, wait for the iCloud upload to finish, then drag them back to a local folder and try to repair them, while they are no longer in iCloud. If repairing is still not possible, restore them from your last backup.
The only supported way to have your library in iCloud is iCloud Photo Library. For iCloud Photo Library a syncing has been implemented, that is safe.
Posted on Oct 27, 2015 11:25 PM