Note: For those people who want to monitor their sync progress, I use this. Hope it avoids a tonne of frustration for people. Enable iCloud Photo Library or My Photo Stream. Seriously, this is just plain ridiculous that a modern day application can fail so miserably when values are not 'within spec'.Īfter wrestling with this for days, with no real help from Apple or Google results, (and on the verge of completely ditching Photos) I can understand anyone else's frustration. Top 5 Solutions for iPhone Photos Not Showing up in iPhoto on Mac.

You'll need to change the environment variables to suit. In the end I came up with a tried and true set of 'default' values that fixed all bogus entries. So, I wiped all the imports I had done and started doing some experiments using exiftool. Looked like something was there, but always doing this 'checking location' loop. Location - Could NEVER add any location.You might be asked to enter your user account password. In the window that opens, click Repair to start the repair process. Then while youre clicking to open Photos, hold down the Command and Option keys at the same time. I would rotate a photo, go out of the album, come back and it was in a different rotation. To get to the Photos Repair Library tool on your Mac, follow these steps: If Photos is open, close the app. Rotation - Caused Photos to completely barf rotation.Turns out my Epson FF-680W photo scanner was adding in some bogus EXIF values into the TIFF files. Not just failing, it just stopped cold and there was no real indication that there was any problem with that specific image. So spent some time digging around the Photos app log files and discovered that syncing was failing on certain photos. Almost every Google, (and Apple support), result on this topic was pretty useless and I'd already wasted two weeks waiting for both of those database recoveries to complete. Tried to recover my Photos library TWICE, to no avail. I already had 40,000 and Photos was working without issue for years.Īfter importing up 10,000 or so photos I had scanned in as TIFF files, iCloud syncing completely stopped. If the issue persists, you can open the Photos Library package, and use the Masters or Originals folders to create a new library. Alternatively, you can also use Time Machine to get the job done. I was battling this exact issue after scanning in over 50,000 family photos into OSX Photos, (I'm assuming some sort of image corruption in your case). If the Photos Repair Library tool could not repair your Photos Library, try restoring your pictures from iCloud.

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