categorie search in fotos isn't working

léonie wrote:

I really miss the Activity window from Aperture, where we could see, which images are currently been processed.

Ah, Aperture – those were the good times!

Today's Photos is nice, but basically it's only a (yet another) tool to keep us in the Apple ecosystem, and to upsell iCloud as much as possible, thus enabling even more profit $$$ for Apple.

Small update: thanks all for the helpful hints and ideas.

I finally gave up waiting for Photos to auto-tag anything, upgraded my iCloud account, and turned iCloud Photo Library on, only to then re-download it all to a new library, as there apparently is no other way of salvaging a Photos library that may or may not be broken (who knows).

However, now even uploading to freaking paid iCloud has been stuck at some random image, with no warning, hint, explanation or feedback of any kind, whatsoever, anywhere, at all.

So now I finally give up on all this pretentious Apple ****, and am in the process of switching to Google Photos, and later to Android. It's been a good 30-years run with Apple, but somehow I feel we're not on the same page anymore.

Same here.
Also on a mid-2012 retina MBP, if that's of any importance.

Wait, and give the Mac time to run the photoanalysisd process in the background, when you are not using photos. keep the Mac up and running over night.

No - but I do quit Photos and it works for me - leaving it running but inactive works for others they report

LN