Q: Photos crashes when Removing Location
Upon returning from vacation, I imported several hundred photos from my Panasonic ZS40 camera into Photos. The ZS40 has a built-in GPS receiver, and embeds location information into each photo if it's available.
When viewed in Photos, a fair number (but not all) of the imported photos appear to have embedded location information (the little 'map' icon appears in the lower-left corner), but the photo's location fails to appear on the map in the Info box. A map appears, but there's no push-pin. Instead, the info box displays "Looking up location information...". This notice never disappears, and the photo's location never appears on the map (which is not relevant to where the photo was taken).
I suspect that the ZS40 had not yet acquired GPS lock when these photos were taken. Perhaps it wrote default (or faulty) lat/long coordinates into the EXIF data structure embedded in the JPG file. In order to correctly assign the proper location in Photos, I clicked Image/Location/Remove Location, intending to then manually add the location where the photo was taken. Photos promptly crashes as soon as I click Remove Location.
This happens every time. I've tried it on dozens of different affected photos, with the same result: Photos crashes.
It appears to be a coding bug in the Photos program (which I dislike more and more every time I use it).
Can anyone suggest a workaround with (or without) Photos?
Can anyone tell me the location of the actual JPG image file which Photos has hidden away somewhere in its database? (With iPhoto, it was easy to find the actual file...). If I can find the actual JPG files, I might be able to inspect (and perhaps correct) the faulty lat/long data in the EXIF with a 3rd party geo-tagging utility.
Photos 1.3
OSX 10.11.3
Posted on May 4, 2016 9:02 AM
Looks like the camera messed up - your best solution is probably going to be to edit it with a third party program and import the corrected photos
You can try removing the GPS info using Preview and importing that image - you should be able to then add it in Photos
And I'd report this as a bug - Photos should allow you to fix the camera issue rather than just crash - My Photo Stream FAQ - Apple Support
LN
Posted on May 8, 2016 1:47 PM

