Photo library on internal SSD very slow in Photos App in Sequoia
I recently bought an M3 MacBook Air with 16GB RAM and 2TB SSD to accommodate my entire one terabyte/100,000 image photo library. After Photos finished downloading all originals to my Mac, the Photos app is painfully slow— if I click a photo— especially one with a 50+MB file size, it takes minutes sometimes to open for me to edit the photos. If i click the enhance magic wand i get an "enhancing photo" status bar that hangs forever. Even with the originals on my internal SSD, Photos seems to be "downloading" them before opening (with Wi-Fi off, I still get the white status ring in the lower right of the photo). With the photos stored in iCloud, this is almost instant, but with them in my internal SSD, it takes minutes sometimes. Any ideas? Is the MacBook Air M3 not capable of handling 50+MB photos in large libraries? I tried deleting the Photos library and setting up a new library from iCloud and also repaired...
MacBook Air 15″, macOS 15.2