Photos disappearing from shared album
I'm having the frustrating problem of adding photos to a shared album, only to have them disappear a few minutes later. The steps I'm following are:
Create a shared album
Either drag and drop photos into shared album, or click "Add Photos" and select ones to put into the shared album
The progress wheel shows up in the top bar, and the photos initially show in the shared album.
After a few minutes, photos start to disappear from the shared album a few at a time. I can watch the photos get reorganized as they drop off, and can also see the total count of photos drop.
Sometimes there will be some left over, but I would say usually all of the photos I added go away.
I'm left with an empty shared album
Anyone else have this problem or work out a solution? Some other possibly pertinent info: I'm working on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) running macOS Monterey v12.6.7, and the photos library is on an external hard drive, iCloud Photos is turned off, Shared Albums is on.
Thanks in advance