Photos started scanning people but is hanging at 6500 complete with about 3650 photos left. I have left the MacBook connected to power with the photos app closed per the instructions. Are there any ideas or suggestions for getting through the process.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Sierra (10.12)
Here's how I solved this problem: I had the same issues as everyone else here and tried all of the same remedies reboots, killing processes, repairing library, leaving Photos open but minimized, closing it completely, etc), with very little luck. Here is how I finally got the people scanning to finish scanning 32k photos...
I killed all of the "Photo" processes in the Activities Monitor >> CPU Panel. Then I rebooted my MBP and I didn't open ANY programs at all (except the Activity Monitor) after about a minute, the "photoanalysisd" process started running and eating up 100%+ of the CPU. I then simply turned the brightness all the way down on my monitor (F1 key) to avoid sleeping the screen / hard drive and the "photoanalysisd" process ran for 13 hours 47 min of CPU time.
The key for me was to not open any programs (including Photos)... I could get the processes to start running after a reboot, but as soon as I open Chrome, the process would stop.
All 32k photos are now scanned for faces. Hope this helps!
Here's how I solved this problem: I had the same issues as everyone else here and tried all of the same remedies reboots, killing processes, repairing library, leaving Photos open but minimized, closing it completely, etc), with very little luck. Here is how I finally got the people scanning to finish scanning 32k photos...
I killed all of the "Photo" processes in the Activities Monitor >> CPU Panel. Then I rebooted my MBP and I didn't open ANY programs at all (except the Activity Monitor) after about a minute, the "photoanalysisd" process started running and eating up 100%+ of the CPU. I then simply turned the brightness all the way down on my monitor (F1 key) to avoid sleeping the screen / hard drive and the "photoanalysisd" process ran for 13 hours 47 min of CPU time.
The key for me was to not open any programs (including Photos)... I could get the processes to start running after a reboot, but as soon as I open Chrome, the process would stop.
All 32k photos are now scanned for faces. Hope this helps!
I think that I actually figured it out, after trying nearly every possible solution I found online.
If you rotate your photos clockwise & counter-clockwise, it will re-scan for all the faces
This might take a few hours depending on the size of your library.
I also recommend that you don't attempt to do a huge number at a time, as photos may crash in the middle & you will have a some-photos-rotated-and-some-not mess to deal with.
Let me know if this works for you guys as well!
I tried this method, and when I got to the CPU part, every time I force quit Photos Agent it would still be in the menu. It did not have an affect on the scanning process. Please help.
The above did nothing for me. After the re-boot photoanalysisd stayed at 0%. Nothing has ever fixed this!
This may be an application failure.
Apple Support Says We Report What Happens In
Http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html
Many people must report it to solve it
In "Feedback Type" you must select "Enhancement Request"
Worked for me after a number of other suggestions didn't.
For reference; I tried rebooting, moving the Photos database, repairing the database, force quitting Photos, letting Photos stay in the background, letting Photos stay in the foreground, etc. – You get the picture (pardon the pun).
The steps I took based on Rolahoy22's suggestion: I quit Photos, found the services in Activity Monitor (I had four or five running across the two tabs) and performed a force quit on each of them, rebooted, relaunched Photos, and let it stay open in the background – and I walked away.
Nice work Rolahoy22
I'm having this problem as well. mine is stuck at 487 photos scanned with 19,628 remaining. I already left it overnight but it hasn't moved at all.
Do we have to quit photos for it to continue scanning or would minimizing the photos app do? Either way, I tried both and it won't continue.
Thats pretty much the problem i described but unfortunately I haven't found any answer for us yet. According to the text in the photos app, we are supposed to quit the app and be plugged into power. Unfortunately, that isn't allowing it to continue for me.
Same problem here. Hope apple responds with a fix as quickly as possible. Its quite frustrating and a time waster trying to find a solution.
Having the same problem here too.
I had the same problem too. Said it had scanned 3,700 but had 19,000 or so left to go. Left the app closed and on power the whole night but no go. I closed the app multiple times but what eventually worked was launching Activity Monitor. Under the Energy tab there should be a process called Photos Agent. I clicked the arrow to expand the process and there were more sub-processes (3 in my case) that started with "com.apple". I force quit those and then headed over to the CPU tab and force quit one more process also called Photos Agent.
After doing these steps, I relaunched the photos app and voilà, it had already started scanning more of them! Hopefully the fix is this easy for others.
I have the same issue
Me too.
I have the same problem. I tried the steps from Rolahoy22 but it didn't work for me. Also closing the App and shutting down my iMac doesn't solve this problem.
The "Energy tab" process killing did not work. Still stuck at 589 photos in under the "People" tag and can't even start the "Memories" scan, since it just shows the spinning "sun" and never advances.
In the meantime, I noticed the photoanalysis process working even when Photos is closed. I killed that too, but didn't solve the problem.
Photos stopped scanning people in MacOs sierra. About 2/3's complete. I have done everything as directed by having MacBook connected to power and app closed.
