Photo Library

All of a sudden my photo library cannot be accessed by Photos. Have a new macmini with Catalina os. Photos was working fine and stopped working.

Mac mini 2018 or later

Posted on Aug 29, 2020 07:11 AM

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Posted on Aug 29, 2020 07:50 AM

It can be distressing to find whole batches of photos have vanished from your Photos folder.

See if this helps: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT205966

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Sep 4, 2020 09:31 AM in response to elenata

Have you tried typing Photos Library in Spotlight Search, or perhaps just Photos?

They may have been moved to the Cloud. If you have an iCloud account, if you have an iCloud account, You don't actually need to be using it, but if you have, they will be marked as yellow in the bar at the bottom of the iCloud window, like this:


Click on the Manage button and you might see something like this:


The above screenshots are from my personal iCloud account.

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