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Hey friends, as I was exporting my photo library on my Mac to a thumb drive, I received an error that read, “The export operation failed to create files for 7465 photos, the first 100 are listed below.” Those files said they couldn’t be opened because there is no such file. How to i create files for them in order to be able to export them?
MacBook
As a trouble shooting procedure, check out the following Apple link re storing a Photos library on an external drive:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201517
To prevent loss of data, Apple recommends against storing a Photos library on a thumb drive. If you try it, the thumb drive, or any external drive used for Photos library storage, should be formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Be aware that reformatting a drive, if you need to do that, erases all data on it. So first back up elsewhere any data that you want to keep.
As for creating files for the photos that won't export, you might first check your photos library to see if the photos display properly there. If they do, then they are intact and there is nothing really to recreate. However, if the photos are missing or corrupted in your Photos library you might try doing a library repair by opening Photos while holding down the Option and Command keys and selecting to repair the library in the box that appears.
-- Rich
As a trouble shooting procedure, check out the following Apple link re storing a Photos library on an external drive:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201517
To prevent loss of data, Apple recommends against storing a Photos library on a thumb drive. If you try it, the thumb drive, or any external drive used for Photos library storage, should be formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Be aware that reformatting a drive, if you need to do that, erases all data on it. So first back up elsewhere any data that you want to keep.
As for creating files for the photos that won't export, you might first check your photos library to see if the photos display properly there. If they do, then they are intact and there is nothing really to recreate. However, if the photos are missing or corrupted in your Photos library you might try doing a library repair by opening Photos while holding down the Option and Command keys and selecting to repair the library in the box that appears.
-- Rich
It probably doesn't need mentioning, but to cover the bases make sure that your external drive has sufficient capacity to store the Photos library.
-- Rich
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