Photos App (or OS X) does not unlock library
Hi fellow users,
There seems to be a nasty issue using multiple Photos libraries on one Mac or shared via network. Perhaps someone can confirm the issue or tell me how to solve it. I suppose it's a bug...
Ok, here's the issue:
We have two Macs, a Mini and a Macbook, which we use in our family. The Mini has an external Raid Drive. The content of the drive is shared in our home network, including several Photos libraries. The main users, my wife and myself to have admin rights on the machines.
If any user opens one of the libraries, let's call it "library 1", on the shared drive or local on the MacMini, of course one can work as expected. No other user can open the same library as it's locked by the system/Photos. After the work is done "library 1" is closed and the Photos app shutdown.
Even after "library 1" has been closed as described above, no other user can open "library 1", nor by local access neither via network. Only the user who worked with the library last, can re-open it. The "library 1" in our example stays locked until the user who worked with it is logging out completely.
So, either the Photos app is not releasing a library correctly or a system service is blocking the library for some reason. The "library 1" in out example is not the system library, of course.
The issue is quite annoying and was not present in the past. I'd guess with the early versions of Sierra everything was still fine. Now one has to check all computers and unlock all users until one can access our family's library again.
Can you confirm the issue on your machines? I already sent product feedback to apple.
THX
Thomas
macOS High Sierra (10.13.2)