High Sierra photo editing slow

Thanks for this.

I'm still having trouble using jpeg's (2mb or more usually).

So I'm still using my work-around with retouching being done on another iMac with Sierra.

Trouble is Apple isn't getting barraged with crash reports the more we use work-arounds.

I'm happy to send a mod one of my jpeg's that is one of many that always immediately crashes Photos 3 - even just viewing sometimes let alone trying to get into edit mode.

I think it quite wrong that Apple doesn't engage its own support forums to placate us with Apple's plan. At the moment we are all just floundering around...

The only version of iPhoto that works with High Sierra is 9.6.1.

In order to obtain that version there are two conditions that you must meet:

1 - you have some version of iPhoto 9 on your Mac.

2 - that version must have been obtained from the App Store.

If you can't meet those two conditions you will not be able to obtain 9.6.1.

I am very frustrated with the continued problems in Photos. I now have an added dimension to the problems. My photos from my Sony A7 are showing up as solid red blocks, no image! And a photo I took yesterday with my iPhone 7Plus in Live format is also showing up as a red block until I click on it and play the image, then I can see it, but only as I click on the image. I sync up to iCloud and backup to time machine. The other annoying firstworld thing is that when I go to to the apple store and play with one of the shiny new macbook pros (I have an early 2011 15" with 16gb ram and 1tb SSD drive) Photos works flawlessly... I will report to the developer portal

Yes, I am afraid you are right...it is the march to upgrade...I am an apple freak and would fork over the money for a shiny new mac, but, there is nothing wrong with my(our) current machines! Am on hold now with support now, will report anything significant

I agree as Photoshop Elements 11 processes my Photo images flawlessly. I have a late 2009 Macbook 6,1. However, I recently replaced the original 250G motion drive with a 500G SSD from OWC.com. I also upgraded the memory to 8G after Apple has been saying for years that my computer can only handle 4G (thanks to the Apple Car senior tech who told me this). Lastly, I just replaced the old swollen battery with a new one. I keep all my photos on an external 4TB hard drive and back them up on an identical TIme Machine drive.

Pardon my rant, but here it goes. The Mac accounts for 8% of Apple's revenues and Apple is close to 8% of the PC market. If they ignore their original product and market horribly, that share of their revenue and their share of the market will erode and it may cost them plus or minus 1% of their revenue in a year. Here is the problem with that. They have a market capitalization that is near a trillion dollars. To fix this one problem with Photos, they would probably need to put five or six good programers on it for about a week. What is wrong with this picture?

FYI - My Photos library is not in my Dropbox folder - Not sure why this affects my Photos. In fact when my wife logs in, Dropbox app does not start (no icon in task bar)- only my user syncs to a Dropbox folder - yet her Photos experience degrades with Dropbox app installed. Puzzling.

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Good it worked for you but its not the root cause.

I tried creating a new library with 1 single raw file on it or a jpg and still editing a photo was very slow and stuttering on a MBPro 2015 16 gb RAM AND SSD HDD.

I just migrated from Lightroom due to Adobe going subscriptions only to encounter this issue with Photos while processing RAW file. To say I am "disappointed" is a huge understatement made worse by Apple's apparent silence about it. While my 13" Mac is not the newest (mid 2012), it's not the weakest (2.9 Ghz, Core i7, 8GB) and all software is up-to-date. I had thought a new 15" MacBook Pro would be the solution, but the discussion here seems to indicate that might be a waste of money.

Lightroom is great, but I was hoping to return to Photos, with Luminar as a plug-in, to ensure dependable DAM without the loss of edits which occurs wandering from program to program. Is there any sense that Apple is on this?

About two weeks ago I had discussions about this with two Applecare techs, one of whom was a senior tech. They both expressed surprise when I told them of this issue, which I find incredulous. IMO, it's more likely they were instructed to feign ignorance and blow off trouble calls. Apple must know about this. It's logical to conclude they don't care. Again, my opinion.

I suppose most Photos users are doing jpeg files, regarding which I've not heard any concerns. Given crash reports, Apple must know about this. For many of us serious about our photo work, a non-response is more than a minor inconvenience. It might be time to give YouTubers something to talk about.

Yes, same here. It's ruining my business as I entirely rely on the quality of my pictures! I cannot understand that this has been going on for half a year and nothing has been done... I am now looking buying photoshop, which I hate to do because of the cost and resources needed to run it (I have a MacAir with a very little brain - but it was just right until I stupidly upgraded). Argh.

I went through the same. Reinstalled operating system, recover run on photos file, connected to iCloud, crashes every time after 50 second or less. Took iMac to Palo Alto Apple Store, they keep it for 2 days, but couldn't fix it. Using m iPad now.

Yeah, top "top" AppleCare supervisor I worked with quit responding to me as well. I'm losing faith with Apple, and I've been a life-long Apple consumer (going all the way back to Apple IIgs). I'm tired of this lack of acknowledgement by Apple knowing that professional photographers can't adequately do their job when everything crashes when even trying to import the photos from the camera. I've been forced to go back and use the old iPhotos application. I don't like it all that well, but at least it doesn't crash.

Do you think that Apple thinks we have "done something" with our photos and that it isn't an Apple problem?

Yeah I've got my old Mac Plus (stopped working now but I won't complain about that!)

And I'm a lifelong supporter and advocate of Apple - many friends and family switched to Apple because of my sales pitch for Apple products.

The only major issue I've had with Apple until now is when they completely changed iMovie about 5 years ago and sound was out of sync and other problems BUT THEY FIXED IT VERY QUICKLY... unlike this problem with Photos.

In the mean time I'm resigned to editing photos in Sierra on older iMac and everything else in High Sierra on newer iMac.