Second, is there some way to speed up the loading? If the Photos app has changed and is requiring updating the indexing of the library, is there some way to bypass that so that we can at least open the library and look at pictures? Does Photos allow us to open the library in safe mode or some such without reindexing? We think that the system restore gave us a newer version of iOS than we had before, could that be a factor? For the record, we currently have the Catalina version of iOS but are not certain what we had prior to that.
#Powerphotos catalina update#
So I have a few questions if there is anyone here who understands how Apple Photos works.įirst, does anyone know why it is taking so long to update the library? I get that there are a lot of photos (4.7 terabytes worth, which would be tens or hundreds of thousands of individual photos) but taking weeks to load seems excessive. Then the toaster tripped the power switch and we had to start over. We waited a month, and it got up to 68% loaded.
#Powerphotos catalina software#
In the first couple of days of this process we called Apple support several times and asked for advice but all they could tell us, after ensuring that we had the latest available system software for the computer, was to just leave it going and it would load up eventually. When we opened the Photos app and told it open the photos library on the external drive it went to a loading screen which told us what percentage of the photos library had loaded. The photos library is some 4.7 Terabytes in size on the external drive. We then brought it home and plugged it in to the external photo storage hard drive to open up the photos library. We took it to the local Apple store and they were able to reinstall the operating system and restore files from the Time Machine backup. Recently there was a problem, and the iMac did not boot up. When the photo collection started getting too large for the internal hard drive (which is one terabyte) we moved it to an external USB hard drive which is 6 terabytes in size.
The computer is an older iMac - a 21.5 inch slim body iMac from 2015 I think. My wife ( ) is the main nature photographer and iNaturailst user of the family, and uses an Apple iMac computer to manager her extensive photo collection. It does however affect my wife’s ability to post observations on iNaturalist and I wondered if someone here might be able to help. This isn’t a specifically iNaturalist question so apologies if it doesn’t fit on these forums.
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