Q: Migration to Photos has stalled!
I have a (very) large iPhotos Library on my mid-2007 iMac. I just upgraded the OS and started migrating my photo library. Everything went well for a while. About 2 hours in it was 50% complete. 12 hours later, it is still only 50 % complete. Can I force quite and restart or will that corrupt my photo library? Do I need to do a full restore from my pre-El Capitan Time Machine back-up and start all over?
Macbook Pro and iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.2)
Posted on Nov 4, 2015 12:18 AM
Let it run a while longer. The progress indicator is not very precise and may look to be stuck for hours. How large is your iPhoto Library?
It is safe to force quit, however, because the original iPhoto Library will not be modified. Only the filename extension of the library will be changed to ".migratedphotolibrary".
You can try a second time to migrate. But in that case I would first trx to find out what is blocking the migration.
Is your iPhoto Library on a supported disk? If your iPhoto Library is on an external drive, the file system needs to be MacOS Extended (Journaled). If it is a different file system, the migrated library will not be created on the same drive but in your Pictures folder, and you may run out of space on your system drive.
If the drive is correctly formatted, but the migration does not work, repair the iPhoto Library in iPhoto, before you try to migrate it again.
Posted on Nov 4, 2015 12:59 AM

