Photos crashing on people tab on High Sierra

Hi,

Since updating to MacOS 10.13 High Sierra, I was looking forward to finally sorting out all my faces (now "people") and having them sync across my devices.

I am using iCloud Photo Library and I had updated my iPad and iPhone to iOS 11 last week and it had already scanned my photo library and found some people, but not as many as I had already tagged in Mac Photos previously (when they did not sync).

Now, it seems Photo's had a hard time merging my previous faces with the new "people" and every time I go into most (but not all) people in the mac photos app, it just crashes.

Anyone had anything similar or know a fix?

Cheers,

Vinny

iMac, macOS High Sierra (10.13)

Posted on Sep 29, 2017 7:36 AM

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Scotty1981

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Posted on Nov 29, 2017 4:53 AM

What fixed it for me (mid-2012 Retina MBP) was running a Photos library repair (hold control + option when opening Photos). It progressed through the repair in a few hours (~30k photos and videos), then stuck at 100% for 3 days, never formally finished, but I eventually forced quit (guidance from an AppleCare Photos rep), and I’ve had no issues since reopening Photos, no further crashing.

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Dec 11, 2017 12:49 PM in response to Caillebotte

No. I have a 13" mid 2012 MacBook Pro w/ an Intel Core i7 Processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 1TB Macintosh SATA disk hard drive.

Coregts

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Dec 29, 2017 1:00 PM in response to Caillebotte

Do you know what was different in these 50% that crashed compared to the other 50% that didn't?

Jan 3, 2018 10:18 AM in response to vinnyjones

I updated to macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 on 12/14/17. I have been editing photos since then and the editing function is much slower than it was. This morning, I tried to edit a group photo I had scanned into Photos before the update. It crashed immediately and continues to do so each time I try. I have every fix mentioned here but the same thing happens. I have since edited other scanned photos (objects, a document) without any problem. I don't know what to do now.

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Photos crashing on people tab on High Sierra