Photo Library Repairing stuck at 99%.... Help

Whenever I open the photo app on my MBP, it says the database has some problems and needs to be repaired, and when I press the repair button, it runs and it stuck at 99% for over 24 hours. I force quitted and reopen the app, it still the same and it also stuck at 99% in the repair phase.

My photo database has been put on a NAS mapped to the MBP as a drive. I am using a 2012 MBP w/ Retina Display running on High Sierra 10.13.3. Please help!

MacBook Pro with Retina display, iOS 10.3.3

Posted on Mar 3, 2018 5:08 PM

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léonie

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Posted on Mar 4, 2018 5:11 AM

How large is your Library? The repair may take a day or more without any visible progress if the library is very large. And interrupting a repair can damage the library further.

At least, while trying to repair the library move it to a locally mounted drive, formatted correctly as MacOS Extended (Journaled) and not case sensitive and not used by Time Machine. Can you repair the library at all?

vanyuen wrote:

But it works fine before......

You have been lucky for a long time. A Photos Library can be damaged beyond repair, when being used on a NAS - it has not been designed to work on a network share, see: Sharing photo libraries among multiple users - Apple Support

Connect an external USB, FireWire, or Thunderbolt drive which has enough free space to contain the library.
Be sure to choose a locally mounted drive. Storing your library on a network share can lead to poor performance, data corruption, or data loss.

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Star98p

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Apr 8, 2018 5:13 PM in response to vanyuen

Hi i am having the exact issues going on 14 hours and it is stuck on 99%. Trying to get a genius bar appointment because the rep that called was bo help whatsoever. I had 10000 pictures that have somehow disappeared and got prompted to repair the library. Pls any advise

LarryHN

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Apr 8, 2018 5:15 PM in response to Star98p

Exact same problem? Exact same answer!

The Photos library can not be on a NAS as you have leaned by trying to do it - Where is it safe to store a Photos Library? Requirements for the external drive

Put is on a properly formatted local drive and hopefully it has not been damaged by being on a NAS - if it has not been damaged you will be fine once it is properly located

ice_boy

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Apr 22, 2018 2:59 AM in response to léonie

Just to be sure - the library is on your system drive and not on a NAS as described in the original post?

External USB-connected HDD, not NAS.

However, I have an update. After waking up this morning it was still "repairing" at 99%. I decided that 48 hours was too much and aborted the process. I turned off my computer and turned it back on. I tried opening the Photos app and it said the library was corrupted and had to be repaired so I started the process again. It took about an hour or two and then it was done!

What the Photos app is doing now is apparently slowly re-uploading my entire library to iCloud which is just... great. lol. But at least the repair process worked.

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