Q: Photos Lockups El Capitan
I have a mid-2010 MacMini with a 1tb 7200rpm drive and 16gb of RAM with 50% or more of the drive space available. I upgraded from Lion to El Capitan, which means I had to migrate from iPhoto to Photos. I migrated my iPhoto libraries (40gb+) to Photos. Recently I have been importing photos scanned from a negative scanner into a brand new Photos library. I have approximately 6,000 photos (+/- 25gb) in the library and when I attempt to turn on Faces and type in a name for a face the program quits responding, and I mean quits responding FOREVER. I thought I would try creating a new library with one photo and see if it does the same, but even now I cannot even create a new library without Photos locking up tighter than a drum. I have rebuilt the library to no avail.
Is there some kind of Photos cache or something that I clear out that may be hanging the system?
Thanks!
Tom
Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), Mini 4,1
Posted on Feb 15, 2016 4:52 PM
I was able to get the problem solved. Since Photos is an integral part of Mac OS X, it appears that it also relies upon iCloud, even if you're not using iCloud to store or share your photos. My iCloud account was corrupt and could not connect to the CalendarAgent, which also prevented the contacts from working. As it turns out, I deleted the ~/Library/Application Support/iCloud folder and ~/Library/Preferences/Mobile*.plist file and this fixed everything. I was also having issues with Messages and Safari, as well as a host of other native apps to Mac OS X. Everything is working fine again.
Posted on Feb 19, 2016 11:12 AM