Photos - export status bar?

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I had the same problem but looking around on google I found out that there's an export status bar. ( I use MacOS Sierra 10.12.1).

I found this post

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/338fgn/new_photos_app_psa_exporting_vide o_does_not_show/

and one reply says that the export status is found by going on the "Photos" section on Photo (top option on the left menu)

There, if you are undergoing an export operation, you can see a small pie next to the small-large photo size slider.

The pie gives you an idea of how much you have exported, but if you click on it you get the exact figure.

Not easy to find, but it is there...

Ciao!

There is indeed no progress bar to indicate the progress. It is happening as a background process. You can enable an alert in the System Preferences > Notification, so you will see a banner in the Notification center, when the export has finished:

To see, how much has been exported, open the folder on your external drive in the Finder. You can see, how much has already been written to that folder this way.

Thank you!!! Great tip!

Tell Apple what missing features you'd like restored or new features added in Photos via https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html.

The problem with that items is it is gone before you can get to it unless you're exporting a large number of photos that take a long time.