So i have been having problems lately with MacOS Big Sur and the Photos app started using doing a "Restoring from iCloud...". However, it doesn't ever seem to restore. Is there a way to do this that works? I am kind of stuck at the moment.
iMac 27″, macOS 11.7
Do you have a backup copy of the Library? If not, you should make one. Is your Library in the Pictures folder of your internal drive, or is it on an external drive. If it's on an external drive, how is the drive formatted? To avoid damaging the Photos Library an external drive must be formatted in either APFS format or Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. The drive must be connected directly to the Mac by cable, not networked, clouded, NASed, etc. Additionally, the drive can not have had Time Machine on it since it was formatted. There have been so many problems with using incompatible drives that the newest macOSs won't even allow a Library on a non-Mac formatted drive to open, since there is a chance of damaging the Photos database. See this:
Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac - Apple Support
If this drive is in a an incompatible format, stop running Photos with it immediately! A Photos Library can sit on an incompatible drive, but running it may corrupt the database.
If the Library is on a compatible drive, then I think that I would sign out of iCloud, or just turn off wifi-- the internet goes funky for everyone from time to time, so the system should handle that just fine. Then I'd see what state the Library is in. But have a backup.
Do you have a backup copy of the Library? If not, you should make one. Is your Library in the Pictures folder of your internal drive, or is it on an external drive. If it's on an external drive, how is the drive formatted? To avoid damaging the Photos Library an external drive must be formatted in either APFS format or Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. The drive must be connected directly to the Mac by cable, not networked, clouded, NASed, etc. Additionally, the drive can not have had Time Machine on it since it was formatted. There have been so many problems with using incompatible drives that the newest macOSs won't even allow a Library on a non-Mac formatted drive to open, since there is a chance of damaging the Photos database. See this:
Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac - Apple Support
If this drive is in a an incompatible format, stop running Photos with it immediately! A Photos Library can sit on an incompatible drive, but running it may corrupt the database.
If the Library is on a compatible drive, then I think that I would sign out of iCloud, or just turn off wifi-- the internet goes funky for everyone from time to time, so the system should handle that just fine. Then I'd see what state the Library is in. But have a backup.
"Restoring from iCloud" taking forever ..... is there a way to fix it?
