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Photos stopped uploading photos after adding 26 thousand pics and videos

Hi,


I recently added all my old photos to the Photos app on Mac (they where on dropbox), I added around 26 thousand files between photos (the vast majority) and some videos, making my total library 33621 photos and 943 videos. When I added the photos to the Photos app it uploaded around one thousand and then it stopped, now I don't have any progress in over a week. I have tried to stop the upload for a day, restarting the app and the Mac but nothing works.


This is my current state, for the last week:

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Photos app version:

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OS and Mac data:

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iCloud storage capacity (I have enough):

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Photos settings (nothing has changed from when it was working):

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And finally somewhere I read that may the problem where some photos that were impossible to upload, so making a smart album returns 0 photos:

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What can I do?

By the way the photos that where already in the library were taken with iPhones over the last 3 years.


Thank you for any advice or solution to this problem

Posted on Feb 17, 2018 2:54 PM

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Posted on Mar 15, 2018 9:56 AM

I have solved this problem. The issue was that I had around 100 videos that were causing the problem. This videos play in the photos app but are MPGE files with a Layer 1 an 2 codecs. Deleting this files from the library and from the trash solved the issue.


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