Photos suddenly thumbnails

I've run out of storage and while waiting for a new external drive, have deleted things. I deleted iPhotos because everything is migrated to Photos. It was going fine until I restarted my computer. All my photos are there but are very small (less than 500kb). What can I do? I restored iphotos from the Trash but it hasn't helped.


I used to over 100GB of photos, now a mere 14GB...


I have a time machine hard drive... can I restore them from there?


Thank you.

Posted on Jun 1, 2016 7:43 AM

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Jun 1, 2016 9:36 AM in response to lenakaja214

If (you didn't say) you enabled iCloud Photo Library to keep on Optimized local copy and were running out of storage space, it's entirely possible Photos reduced size of images on your drive. If this were the case, however, the full-resolution image should download from iCloud when you double-click on it and switch to Edit mode.


Is this not working this way for you?

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