Q: Photo stream album and Shared albums disappearing from Photos App
Running El Capitan 10.11.4 and this issue has been ongoing since 10.10.x
My Photo stream album and Shared albums are disappearing from Photos App and Photos forgets where my Library lives…
My Default System Photo Library is on one of my internal drives in my 2010 Mac Pro. I’ve pointed Photos to it numerous times yet it often asks me to re-locate it. Also, in Photos Preferences, the “Use as System Photo Library” setting will not stick. It needs to be reset almost every time time I launch Photos.
The Photostream and Shared albums never load on their own anymore, the only way I can get them to load is to go to Photos -> Preferences -> iCloud then deselect and then re-select the Photostream option. This also works in System Preferences in the iCloud Pane -> Photos -> Options. But these setting never stick and of course, I should not have to do any of this…
Trouble shooting I’ve done so far:
*Deleted:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Photos/
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Photos.plist
*Restarted computer
*Confirmed no hardware issue with hard drive that the Photos Library lives on
*Pointed Photos to different Library then toggle it back to my actual main Library
*Signed out of iCloud and then sign back in again
Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4), 2010 2 x 2.4GHz Quad Core 24GB RAM
Posted on Mar 27, 2016 7:48 AM