Stuck on "downloading originals" after updating to Sonoma.
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. I've been doing this for over a year without any problems after updating to MacOS Sonoma I began encountering this issue. Instead of saying “synced to iCloud” it says downloading 22 originals. 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. However, this number never moves I left it overnight and it stayed the same. 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. I select “cancel”, wait a bit and instead of ejecting the drive I select shut down or restart. When I get back on and connect the drive it will either present me with a message that the photos application is re-syncing the entire library or that there are a set number of originals downloading, I repeat the process I “select all” + slideshow to download the alleged x number or remaining photos however it doesn’t get rid of all of them… very frustrating I’ve been trying to fix this for the past week, yesterday I updated to 14.2 but the issue still persists. This issue has also been reported on the Mac Rumors forum a few days ago: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/downloading-originals-icloud-photo-library-stuck.2413088/
MacBook Pro (M2 Max, 2023)