Mac Photos Updating Library Stuck At 0

Error updating database

2020-4-1  updating library is not working in photos. If Mac photos the library could not be opened or it is showing unexpected errors, then Photos Library Repair Tool is one of the best ways to fix it. This is a built-in repair tool, comes with macOS and it is pretty easy to use. (0 votes, average: 5.0. Sep 20, 2017 So I just updated to iOS 11 and the main issue I am having is that I have no photos showing up in the Photos app. It's just a white screen with 'Updating' in the middle. I am using iCloud Photo Library. There are the tabs at the bottom but there isn't any photos anywhere. Since it just says.

Apple’s new Photos program in OS X 10.10.3 may have difficulty when migrating your old iPhoto library. When it first runs, Photos will create a new library, and do so by migrating from an existing Aperture or iPhoto library, if present. However, there may be a couple of issues where the program will be unable to do so.

Here are the console messages. The library could not be opened on mac. It says the JAR file could not be opened and asks me to look for any error messages in my console. I suspect the prob is in the first line itself, but I am not from a software background, so don't know if this is enough for anyone who knows Java to tell what the issue is.

The first is a problem where Photos will claim a system or hardware issue is blocking its ability to create a library. This means that either the source disk for the prior library, or the destination disk where Photos is creating the library is damaged. To overcome this, reboot your Mac into Recovery Mode (hold Command-R at startup when you hear the boot chimes) and then use Disk Utility to check for errors on every drive you have attached to your Mac:

  1. Select a drive in the sidebar.
  2. Press Command-A to select all drives and devices
  3. Go to the First Aid tab and click “Repair Disk”
While you can first verify the disks and then repair them, if there are no errors then this will be redundant, and if there are then you will likely need to repair them anyway.

If you are keeping the problematic library on a secondary disk, then attempt to copy it to another one (either external, or your internal drive), and then try importing your photos from it. To select the library, launch Photos with the Option key held down, and then choose your library from the new copied location.

An alternative is to attempt a repair of the library using iPhoto or Aperture, which can be done by launching the program with both the Option and Command keys held. This will bring up the Library First Aid panel, where you can repair various aspects of the library. The repair of both permissions and the database are the more relevant options here.

Holding the Option and Command keys when launching iPhoto will bring up this window, allowing you to repair your current library before you import it into Photos.

A final issue when importing your library to Photos is that it may not have permissions to access the locations on your system for importing photos and then saving them to its new library, in which case Photos will issue a permissions-related error. To overcome this, first perform the previously mentioned routine to repair permissions on your iPhoto library, or optionally copy it to an external hard drive. Then select the drive and press Command-i to get info on it, followed by ensuring the box to ignore ownership on the volume is checked.

Apple photos updating library stuck at 0

Next, be sure your photo library destination is properly owned by you. By default, Photos will create the new library in your home folder, so try the following routine to ensure the folder’s default structure is readable:

  1. Reboot your Mac into Recovery Mode
  2. Choose Terminal from the Utilities folder
  3. Type “resetpassword” in the Terminal and press Enter
  4. Select your drive in the tool that opens
  5. Select your username from the drop-down menu
  6. Click the button to reset home folder permissions and ACLs.
  7. Reboot your Mac normally and try again

In addition to this approach, you can manually target the folder in which Photos is saving its new library, with the following procedure:

  1. Open the Terminal and type the following (do not press Enter yet):
  2. Drag the desired destination folder to the Terminal window (if you are unsure, then drag the Pictures folder in your home directory), then press Enter
  3. Now run the following two commands (you can copy and paste both lines from here)

When finished, again attempt to open Pictures and migrate your library. You may need to hold the Option key when launching Photos, to manually select your iPhoto library to import.

Issue

Macbook Air (MacOS 10.11 - El Capitan) with empty Photos library cannot download photos from iCloud (previously uploaded by another Macbook). iCloud Photo Library status in Photos > Preferences > iCloud stuck on 'Updating' for over 24 hours.

Updating Brew

Restarting computer, pausing iCloud upload, re-creating or repairing Photos database doesn't make any difference.

Resolution

The fix was a bit a bit random.. Open System Preferences > iCloud, click Options next to Photos, then without changing anything (providing iCloud Photo Library is already selected) click Done..

As soon as I clicked Done, Photos app immediately started downloading photos from iCloud..

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Macbook Air 13 (Mid 2011)
OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Apple Photos 1.1

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