Search not working in Photos High Sierra

How long ago has it been, since you upgraded to High Sierra?

The classification algorithm for categories changed considerably with the High Sierra upgrade. An that is why all photos in your library will need scanning again for faces and categories. The first few days after the upgrade you will not see many recognized objects, when you search for categories, but if you let your Mac run over night and give it time to scan your photos, the search will be back to normal after a week or so (depending on the size of your library).

If you just reinstalled Photos and started over with the library from the backup, you are back to square one and the scan for categories will need to run again. For my library with 50000 photos it took more than a week. My library is an iCloud Photo Library, but all photos are stored locally on the internal SSD, not optimized, so Photos can access them quickly.

Same problem. I assign a title to each photo and use these titles to search for a photo. The search function is not working now so I am now unable to find photos (my photos library is 26GB so too big to search through manually!). Any ideas anyone?

I just tried creating a new Photos library, loading some photos in and giving them different titles. The search function is working perfectly so maybe I just need to export all the photos from the old library and import them to the new one. Very boring and time consuming but I can't find another way of fixing this problem. Macs are supposed to be user friendly but this latest upgrade just seems to have broken things.

I also tried searching for "Car", "Boat", "Cake", "House" and lots of other things I have photos of, but they all returned no results. I did all the above searches on my iPad and iPhone and they worked perfectly. Searching "dog" on my iPhone returned 371 results, yet I get zero results on my Mac with the same library?

I have two identical MacBook Pros, syncing with iCloud Photo Library. After the High Sierra Upgrade to version 10.13.2 the search for categories stopped working on both of them. On on of them it came back after the scan for categories finished, on the second one not. Two weeks ago I gave up and deleted the library from the Mac, where the category search no longer worked, and downloaded the library again from iCloud. It took ten days until all original image files have been downloaded again from iCloud Photo Library, but once the library had been completely restored from iCloud Photo library and the originals had been scanned for faces and categories again, the search for categories is working well again on that Mac.

The same here.

I also set up a new photos library file and set it to system library (iCloud)

Faces, paces, everything works fine, but searching in categories is still broken.

The iPhone with the same settings finds about 600 seaside pictures and the Mac only 5.

80 dogs on iPhone 3 on the Mac.

Totally broken.

The funny part is, that the seaside memories contain about 600 pictures, so in general, the content detection seems to be fine.

I hope Apple is reading this, because it needs to be fixed, because the search is absolutely great with 75k photos.

I am the admin for my graphics dept and we also now have 10 designers that cannot do a search in our photo library of 50,000+ images. This is a HUGE issue and causing massive slow down in productivity!

Similar problem, trying to search via filename. Some searches work, most don't. Seems like search on photos recently imported work better than older ones. Have sent feedback to Apple.

HS 10.13.3 (Photos v3.0 (3251.12.190)

This describes my problem precisely.

Please see my thread for my experience of this issue.;

Have you sent feedback? Feedback - Photos - Apple

The more people will send reports, better the chance will be that it gets fixed.

Have you sent feedback? Feedback - Photos - Apple

The more people will send reports, better the chance will be that it gets fixed.

Posting here will accomplish nothing

LN

what has changed since it worked?

LN