![]() ![]() I've tried “repairing” my library and I have “rebuilt” my library over three times it all takes over 48 hours to complete eventually it will say “synced to iCloud” however once I close my photos library, I click the eject button and it presents me with an error suggesting that the drive is still in use. However, this number never moves I left it overnight and it stayed the same. I used the select all + slideshow trick to force them to download in my main photos section and in my hidden photos section that brought the number down from 22 to 7 originals. Instead of saying “synced to iCloud” it says downloading 22 originals. I've been doing this for over a year without any problems after updating to MacOS Sonoma I began encountering this issue. I have about 80,000 items in my photos database, I keep them all in the cloud however I like keeping them on my SSD as well for redundancy. Hopefully Apple find & release a fix for this.extremely frustrating! However, automatic downloads of originals is still stuck. There is a way to to force download of originals by selecting images, right-clicking, and selecting 'play slideshow' - this forces Photos to download high-res images before playing the slideshow. Downloading originals still works fine on an older MacBook Pro & my iPhone. I currently have a support call logged with Apple for investigation - and hearing others have a similar issue makes me think it's a broader system/software issue and not just me. removing the 'syndication.photolibray' as you mentioned killing/relaunching photos processes (e.g. ![]() leaving my computer on overnight, both with Photos open & closed (some things are background processes) enabling & disabling 'Optimise storage' with disabled it SHOULD download all hi-res images starting a new library (several times!) clearing internal SSD space and trying that - same result using external SSDs with LOTS of storage, formatted correctly (APFS, non-case-sensitive) I have tried the following without success: Latest software versions installed (MacOS 14.1.2 Sonoma and Photos 9). I have a new M3 MacBook Pro, with 18,500 images (including 1600 videos) - all up around 160Gb on iCloud. One downside of this method is you need plenty of disk space (for both the photos coming into the library and the exports before you throw them away.I have the same issue, and after a week struggling & following other advice Downloading Originals to my local Photos library is still stuck. I don't really want the exported files so I will throw them away later when the library has finished. Because Photos will consider this a priority more important than the normal iCloud sync it will want to get the full-size files much faster than normal (for me seems to be about 5x as fast). Then choose File>Export and export originals to some folder (preferably on a fast disk). Go to the library photos in the Photos app and select all. It is about a third of the way through after a week. After a while, it settled down to slowly downloading everything. So I decided to start a new library on an external 2TB SSD, make it the main library, turn on iCloud for Photos and turn off optimize so that the full photos would come down and I could then dedupe.ĭownloading was initially sporadic and slow. There appears to be no software that can dedupe an optimized library (though I reckon in theory it should be possible, but it's probably Apple's fault in not attaching enough info to the compressed 'thumbnail' files). PowerPhotos is useful for the task of merging libraries. My plan was to merge all my photos to a single library, keep them in iCloud with optimizing on. I can relate to this situation (>100000 photos and >3000 videos). Oh, and don't get me started about using icloud with a VPN. I guess the bottom line is that I have one question for Apple: "Huh?" Is it really too much to want to download my icloud photos to my computer in a timely fashion? These are jpg and mov files. I'm already paying Apple, I'd have to pay Google too. Google photos is a good option, photos are free, but you have to pay for video space. I guess I really pay apple for icloud storage so I can backup my devices but it sure is annoying for photos. The whole icloud photo system is a stink bomb. 10-20gb, even slowly should take 30 minutes at the most. I downloaded a 16GB Microsoft Virtualization session for VMWare in about 4 or 5 minutes. So I figure there's no way it's more than 10-20gb of photos/videos of mine.īeen over 24 hours and I still have 1557 items to download, not even half done. ![]() I only have 200GB of icloud space and 90GB of that is free AND it's shared with my family. Gives me a polite message saying I have a large amount of information so it might take a while. I right-click on the icloud taskbar icon, then click download photos. ![]()
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