I open Photo's from Apple and go to some years ago, say 2023. I select a bunch of photo's and try to expert them to a map on my desktop. When NOT using the option of exporting the original photos, the application crashes. I use macOS Sequoia 15.6
This is not very nice. Which other ways are there to export edited photos.
Thanks for the reply!
JosV
iMac 27″, macOS 15.6
Perhaps the edited versions are corrupted in some way or missing or cannot be found.
Typically, this problem can occur after running a cleaning application on the Mac, like CleanMyMac, or similar.
Have the NEF files been edited in Photos or using an external editor, that is writing the edited versions back to the Photos Library? Or have the photos in question been migrated to Photos from iPhoto or Aperture? Any photos or videos migrated from Aperture or iPhone have to be reverted to the original before we can edit them.
You did not yet reply to Richards question, where your Photos Library is stored. Even when using iCloud Photos you are having a system photos library. Is this library in your Pictures folder or on an external drive?
As a test, if your library in iCloud is showing the same corruption, you may want to open your iCloud web page at www.icloud.com and try to download the edited versions from the Photos.app there. Can you download the edited versions directly from iCloud or have they not been uploaded to iCloud as well?
This isn't very clear, and you didn't provide much information. Just saying "not very nice" doesn't help much-- details are important.
Are you saying that using "File>Export>Export nn Photos" causes a crash? Where? When you first get the dialog or what? What error message? Are you meaning that "File>Export>Export Unmodified Originals" works and doesn't crash?
Cold you tell us:
Thank you Richard for reaching out.
Some answers to your additional questions.
I use iCloud Photos to synchronize my devices,
Optimize Storage is activated,
I use iCLoud drive (200 Gb),
368,03 GB of 499,9 GB available.
I never noticed these problems. Perhaps even my storage on the external drive is (without my knowledge) corrupted.
The only thing I can think of is that the update to Sequoia 15.6 is the problem.
Extra information:
Some of the photos are original jpg’s, sometimes NEF’s from Nikon, sometimes PNG etc. Some are edited, som are not.
After doing some research I discovered that NEF’s which has been edited and stored as jpeg give some problems when exporting them.
When exporting however as originals they give no problems, but then the editing is lost.
When trying to edit such a photo, Photo’s can’t edit them anymore, not even in raw mode.
You can export them as jpeg, HEIC, PNG or TIFF. HEIC however can give problems too when exporting as HEIC. (IMG_0581.HEIC uit 2018) (unknown failure)
mov’s are exported in heir without a problem.
Conclusion for the moment: only export them in Photo’s, using the original photo.
(Perhaps the problem is solved in Tahoe, I hope)
Again, thanks a lot for your help, I really appreciate it.
Kind regards,
JosV
Hi Léonie.
I did react on the contribution of Richard. I assume (hope) that my reaction to your contribution is also visible to everyone, otherwise I'm doing something wrong!
I have not tested your suggestion yet but I will. I'll let you kmow te result ok?
As promised....I downloaded the photo fro, the icloud library. No problem.
One of my tests was as follows:
(1) I selected a bunch of photos (about 150)
(2) I copied them, I exported them and is slided them to folders on my desktop
Exporting them resulted in errors too.
Im still doing some experiments but I don't trust exporting anymore.
So I'm orientating myself on other applications than Photos now.
Thanks for your support until now. I hope to inform you later on on more results.
The problem is not solved yet but perhaps will be later on in Tahoe.
Thanks to everyone for the help
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The reason we ask about your using an external drive is that Photos Libraries run from an external drive that's not formatted for Mac in either APFS format or Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format become corrupted. Since Sequoia is intended to prevent Photos from even opening improperly formatted drives, it's unlikely the cause of your problems. But it's certainly worth asking.
This export problem seems unique-- I've not heard of it happening before. To narrow things down, try these steps:
Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support
The idea is to find out if the problem is with the Library, with your account, or with caches and login items, and stuff like that. One of these steps may fix the problem, but their failure to work also helps figure out what's happening.
Let us know what happens…
Sorry, I forgot to tell you that only Photos crashed, not my iMac.
Kind regards,
Jos
This is the message for the mentioned picture I received after the crash of Photos:
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Exporting photo's in Sequoia 15.6 from Apple Photo's to a different folder.
