Exactly the same happened to me on my MBA but before updating to high sierra - spoke with Apple who said initially just to wait, then said I should update to high sierra when I said that the iMac was updating in real-time, even though I was and still am running sierra 10.12.6 on it.
This made things much worse: keynote, numbers and pages would not update either after this so I lost instant access to hundreds of documents as well. The finder also went tits, finding stuff but in no particular order, if that makes sense.
I don't know what was going on but I can tell you what I found and how I fixed it, or at least got things working again....
I thought I'd try a clean install of an earlier OS as the MBA is a couple of years old, but I couldn't get anything except high sierra, only to notice I couldn't erase the disk and partition with anything other than APFS, so I'm guessing I must have ticked a box somewhere to change the file system when I installed 10.13. Does this have anything to do with what happened? I only ask because I waited five days for photos to change from "uploading 244 photos" to "uploading 241 photos" out of about 4000, when usually it's within a minute that changes occur, and I keep high-res originals as there's loads of memory to play with.
Anyway, not really knowing what I'm doing I put it into target disk mode, connected with a TB cable then used my iMac to erase it with Disk utility and format in Mac OS extended (I have two backup SSDs just in case, wouldn't be the first time I've destroyed everything including the rescue partition). Then downloaded sierra 10.12.6 from Apple via a third-party website, set up as new, signed into iCloud, tunes etc. and everything back to normal - documents and photos came back within an hour or two!
Sorry if I've posed more questions than answered, might be of interest to someone. Or perhaps not.