Why has Photos still syncing after 3 days?

iMac 24″, macOS 13.1

Posted on Jan 20, 2023 05:07 AM

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Posted on Jan 20, 2023 06:50 AM

It will depend on the size of your Photos Library. For my library with roughly 50000 photos and videos the first syncing took ten days.

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léonie

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Jan 20, 2023 06:50 AM in response to tomfromcrystalriver

It will depend on the size of your Photos Library. For my library with roughly 50000 photos and videos the first syncing took ten days.

Old Toad

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Jan 20, 2023 08:36 AM in response to tomfromcrystalriver

If you have a lot of videos that will extend the scanning time as it scans each frame of every video.

Jan 20, 2023 09:29 AM in response to léonie

I have 9000+ and some are videos. I guess it will take a while - thank you!

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Jan 20, 2023 10:44 AM in response to tomfromcrystalriver

Good Luck!

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