![]() That gives you the ability to go back to the way things were right when the issue occurred, in case your troubleshooting happens to make things worse. Maybe copying your photo archive from your PC to external storage is something you do more sparingly, in case you ever need to restore an older file, but aren’t concerned that you’ll lose everything in your cloud storage.Īnd speaking of backups, if you find yourself in this predicament with your Mac again, the first thing you should do is make a full, direct copy of your photo library to somewhere else (whether that’s to another folder on your PC or some kind of external storage). You don’t have to back up your files to all these places at once every time - perhaps you sync your PC’s photo folder to the cloud, or simply drop every photo you take into cloud storage from your device or PC. Generally, I’d recommend sticking to three locations: Your computer, a cloud service, and some kind of external storage that you control such as a USB hard drive. When in doubt, simply remember this: store your files in as many places as you can, because it never hurts to have multiple backups. I don’t say that to scold you, but to remind everyone that regularly backing up your critical data (especially photographs you can’t bear to lose) should be a regular part of your digital life. To that point, I’ve never experienced this on my Mac, but also all my photos go straight to the cloud to live on someone else’s servers because I don’t trust one hard drive or operating system to preserve my data. This must have been quite the three-week bout of anxiety for you at least, that’s how I would have felt if I suddenly lost some 27,000+ photographs. I’m sorry you’re dealing with this, Joanne. I am a mother of 4 and the majority of the images are of my children and I am pretty desperate to restore my library. I thought I had last backed up my photos to a usb drive in February 2020 but when I try open the file Photos 2020 it come back saying error. I have tried using finder spotlight which comes back with more than 80000 images and when I try to copy my Mac continues to restart due to error. I can’t seem to find a masters but do have an originals file which only seems to have photos up until 2016 when I last changed my Mac. When I reopened library it asked me to rebuild library which I did and now there are only 3409 photos!!!! Releasing there were some duplicates I downloaded photosweeper, just started the process when photo library crashed. I had 31700 photos and 1100 videos on my iMac photo library. This is a long shot but last resort after 19 days of everything I can think of. She recently wrote to us with the following question: I am completely willing to consider that I am just missing "something" about the process.At least, that’s where Lifehacker reader Joanne finds herself today. Which is my next step if no one has a better suggestion. I've probably put enough time and effort into duplicate photo remover apps that I could have actually deleted them manually by now. It shouldn't be this hard and I'm not stupid about following app instructions. But it is always about 27,000 duplicates and exactly 57 suggested for removal. I've tried PhotoSweeper using sorting by file name, size, picture match (exact because many photos are quite similar, and 90% just to see what it would suggest to delete. I've tried searching for them by the *_1024.jpg* and various combinations of that but they seem to be invisible other than in Photos. They show up when I look at all the Photo files and (oddly) they vary in size from the small 100-300KB files I save for use in my blog to the full size originals. ![]() I've run it 3 more times and it is always "57 files". ![]() I wasn't sure which photos it meant the first 2 tries but finally clicked "OK". For example, when I run it just looking at the Photos file (that is 69,000 files but should be about 20,000 without duplicates), it says it found 27,000 and asks if I want to delete them. It is a bit confusing, as it doesn't explain well what the choices it offers mean. Well, I forget the previous ones (they were free, so "iffy" and they did nothing), but I am using PhotoSweeper that I bought from the app store.
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