Photos has be Preparing Library for hours and seems stuck...
Launched Photos for first time, chose my iPhoto library and off it went. It's been stuck Preparing Library at 13% for over 8 hours now.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
I just started doing preparing my photos. I have several libraries and backups. One of my libraries was on my computer hard drive and that went relatively quickly, just a few minutes for about 20K of photos. After realizing it's the wrong library, I switched to a library on an external hard drive and now after a few hours it's only at 10%.
My questions to you is, are you importing a library from an external or a native drive?
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Make backup of your iPhoto Library and run the iPhoto Library First Aid tools to repair the permissions on your library and rebuild the iPhoto Library.
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Photos stalled in preparing library during first use
I am using an early 2009 iMac, 3.06 GHz intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR2 memory and 190 GB free storage. OS X 10.10.3. Photos 1.0 is being used for the first time and has been at 71% complete preparing library for several hours. I presume it has stalled, what should I do?
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