what happened to the menu in photos app

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what happened to the menu in photos app

My Photos menu is suddenly different when I open it. There is no more Library at the top of the menu. The top item is Memories, then People, then Places (and then others). At the top of the app there used to be Days, Months, Years to help one get to a specific date easily. No more. Now it just shows how many photos and videos I have. None of these menu items are helpful to me, as I just want to sort by date and get to a photo easily by date. What happened and how do I change it back?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.0

Posted on Jan 1, 2023 12:16 PM

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léonie

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Jan 3, 2023 03:55 AM in response to mebalestri

I am only seeing this, when I have started my Mac in Safe Boot Mode. In this mode some features of the Graphics are disabled and Photos is unable to show the Library items. This problem started with macOS 10.15 Catalina.

See: Photos on Catalina: If the Photos View vanishes from the sidebar, check if the Mac is in Safe Mode - Apple Community

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Yer_Man

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Jan 1, 2023 02:33 PM in response to mebalestri

Did you recently update the operating system?

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mebalestri Author

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Jan 2, 2023 08:14 PM in response to Yer_Man

No, not for a while. It was fine in the morning, but not in the afternoon. I closed out of everything, restarted my computer, all the things you are supposed to do. It didn't change anything. I logged on the next morning and it was back to normal. I don't know what I did to fix it. I hope it doesn't happen again.

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what happened to the menu in photos app

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