Apple Photos on your Mac not working? Try REPAIRING your library!

This quick video shows the process of repairing an Apple Photo Library on a Mac. In the rare event that you get an error when you try to open Apple Photos, you can try to repair it with this trick.
Just keep in mind that if you have a lot of photos or if you use iCloud Photos, the time to repair can vary.
*macOS 14 Sonoma was used in this tutorial
How to use the Photos Repair Library tool on your Mac
support.apple.com/en-us/HT204967
Repair your library in Photos on Mac
support.apple.com/guide/photo...
If you have a video suggestion, let's chat!
/ learnwithjoel
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  • @DutchAussieProductions
    @DutchAussieProductions7 күн бұрын

    Thanks for your videos, Joel. I am learning a lot from you.

  • @Learnwithjoel

    @Learnwithjoel

    6 күн бұрын

    Happy to hear that @DutchAussieProductions! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

  • @philipphein2199
    @philipphein21995 ай бұрын

    worked for me! Thank you so much!

  • @usanegypt
    @usanegypt5 ай бұрын

    Thank you 🙏

  • @mik.m2630
    @mik.m2630Ай бұрын

    worked for me thanks a lot!

  • @Learnwithjoel

    @Learnwithjoel

    Ай бұрын

    Amazing @mik.m2630! Happy to hear! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

  • @Ferkowski_Agoston
    @Ferkowski_Agoston3 ай бұрын

    There’s an issue, It says The library could not be opened ( “Photos Library.photoslibrary” is in iCloud Drive, and needs to be moved to a folder on your Mac to open. ) Please how can I fix this issue, it happened after I updated my Mac

  • @kropopshow
    @kropopshow6 ай бұрын

    Bravo.Danke thank you

  • @Learnwithjoel

    @Learnwithjoel

    6 ай бұрын

    You're very welcome @kropopshow! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

  • @542chicken
    @542chicken7 ай бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @Learnwithjoel

    @Learnwithjoel

    7 ай бұрын

    @542chicken, your CONTRIBUTION is so helpful and gives me the opportunity to create more content! Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!

  • @kjackson1676
    @kjackson1676Ай бұрын

    Worked thanks

  • @Learnwithjoel

    @Learnwithjoel

    29 күн бұрын

    Happy to hear @kjackson1676! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

  • @Learnwithjoel

    @Learnwithjoel

    29 күн бұрын

    Happy to hear @kjackson1676! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

  • @WolfieTheWolf-yb4dc
    @WolfieTheWolf-yb4dcАй бұрын

    Saved me!

  • @MM-sb4wg
    @MM-sb4wg24 күн бұрын

    Thanks.I have repaired my iMac photo library. The issue is that my Photo no longer find faces? Any idea what the problem can be.

  • @BigCountrySo-CaL619
    @BigCountrySo-CaL61914 күн бұрын

    So my picture libraries that I dragged and dropped from a Time Machine back up from my older computer, seems like some of the pictures on there are blank, but still has the information in it. and some videos are missing thumbnails on the video, how do I fix that?

  • @Learnwithjoel

    @Learnwithjoel

    6 күн бұрын

    Hi @BigCountrySo-CaL619. Did you just navigate to the files directly on the Time Machine backup, or did you actually recover the library from the Time Machine software? Did you take the whole library or just the folder containing pictures? What is your main goal? To move old Photo library from the Time Machine backup to a new Mac? Merge it with another Photo library? THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

  • @BigCountrySo-CaL619

    @BigCountrySo-CaL619

    6 күн бұрын

    @@Learnwithjoel I just went through my old Time Machine backups hard drives,, from different computers I used to have, and just dragged the picture library, into my new computer picture library folder.

  • @b10178
    @b101783 ай бұрын

    I have my photo library in a external SSD format like Mac OS Extended but Every time I stop using the Mac for a week and I want to open the library I have the same problem , do you know why?

  • @LorenzoArabia
    @LorenzoArabia2 ай бұрын

    I have a Mac photo library which was my iCloud library till I accidentally did a mess and delete all my pics from iCloud (recently deleted) to free up some space, now I have this library on my Mac with all my pics but the file are partially missing (I think) is there a method to repair this files to have my library back working 100% ??? It would be a lifesaver

  • @ygbinc3775
    @ygbinc377516 күн бұрын

    not working for me on a 2021 14' MacBook Pro M1, keeps saying (The library "Photos Library.photoslibrary'' failed to be repaired). I've created multiple library's and install fails to open any of them can someone please help

  • @toomanytoys
    @toomanytoys7 ай бұрын

    I wish my issue was so easy. It's both some photos and videos in my photo library, declaring the videos as unsupported format despite being fine before. Created and uploaded from my iPhone. If I do a Time Machine restore, it shows +1TB of photolibrary, then after iPhoto reconstructs, it is down to 0.6TB. The thumbnails of the affected files look like a ghost in the iPhotos albums. But this is a good video for others.

  • @fatihturhanoglu8364
    @fatihturhanoglu8364Ай бұрын

    I opened another empty library on the hard drive and when i tried to open my photos i could not reach them. Did the mac erase all my photos? How it be recovered? Thank you.

  • @cheeseballs9579
    @cheeseballs95793 ай бұрын

    Great video! but i wish it worked for me, still won't load any of my old videos from 2018-2020 from my old iphone. its very frustrating as i thought all my videos were saved here so i didn't think to save them anywhere else. Now they're all gone! smh, Thanks Apple!

  • @Ohhkniaa

    @Ohhkniaa

    Ай бұрын

    I’m having the same problem it’s so annoying! If you found a way to get your pictures back pleaseeee let me know

  • @cheeseballs9579

    @cheeseballs9579

    Ай бұрын

    @@Ohhkniaa no but randomly I got a couple of them to load but like 5% of what I wanted. Just got a new phone and decided to keep my old phone instead of trading it in so I can figure out a way to get all my stuff on my own hard drive

  • @calgreco8607
    @calgreco8607Ай бұрын

    I'm going to try this but if Apple could not fix problem will this? I lost all ability to use albums which disappears when trying to upload a photo say to Facebook or Market Place or any other websites. Apple said to drag from Library and I'm like it takes forever to find a photo when you got 7000! I do not have the cloud. Has anyone experienced this before? Thank you.

  • @Learnwithjoel

    @Learnwithjoel

    Ай бұрын

    Hi @calgreco8607! So when they say "Drag from Library", that could be a little challenging and misleading. Yes, some website do allow you to Drag a photo/file from a location on your Mac to a webpage after an upload prompt, but it could be confusing. Here's what I do. If I'm uploading files to a social media site or a website of something, I always just drag a photo out of Apple Photos to my desktop. This makes a copy of the photo on your Mac and still keeps it within Apple Photos. From there I navigate to Facebook, or any other site and choose "Upload" and then navigate to my Desktop location and choose the file/photo from there. After it's uploaded, I delete from the desktop. If you're planning ahead and don't want to upload at a particular moment, you can organize and add photos into an Album and then do the same thing when you're ready to post. Whether you're using iCloud or not, this should be irrelevant. The Finder on your Mac is your BEST FRIEND. Know how to use it inside and out! I hope that helps! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

  • @DesertCharleyVideos
    @DesertCharleyVideos8 күн бұрын

    My photos automatically launches Photos Repair every time I restart the computer. I do have 110,000 photos and it takes hours. Any advice, or ideas?

  • @Learnwithjoel

    @Learnwithjoel

    8 күн бұрын

    Hi @DesertCharleyVideos! Do you have Apple Photos set to "Open on Login"? When you first start up your Mac and it launches Photos repair, have you quit Apple Photos and tried to run the repair after that? Has the repair ever been successful? Do you use iCloud Photos? Is your library stored locally on the Mac, or on an external drive? what macOS version? THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

  • @juanortiz1929
    @juanortiz19296 ай бұрын

    Didn’t work for me 😞

  • @Learnwithjoel

    @Learnwithjoel

    6 ай бұрын

    Hi @juanortiz1929! What didn't work exactly? Running the repair, or after the repair, there is still an issue with the Apple Photo Library? THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

  • @toddpa-c3826
    @toddpa-c38264 ай бұрын

    I have HUGE issues with dates that are adjusted as i organize my 12k photos Such as some are showing 20 yrs off Or even 2023 Turns into yr. 23 only I wanna scream

  • @3Toy
    @3Toy7 ай бұрын

    First :)

  • @Learnwithjoel

    @Learnwithjoel

    7 ай бұрын

    Nice @3Toy! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

  • @calgreco8607
    @calgreco8607Ай бұрын

    Update, It did not work unfortunately.

  • @Learnwithjoel

    @Learnwithjoel

    Ай бұрын

    Hi @calgreco8607! I don't think repairing your Apple Photo library will solve the issue your'e having. So when they say "Drag from Library", that could be a little challenging and misleading. Yes, some website do allow you to Drag a photo/file from a location on your Mac to a webpage after an upload prompt, but it could be confusing. Here's what I do. If I'm uploading files to a social media site or a website of something, I always just drag a photo out of Apple Photos to my desktop. This makes a copy of the photo on your Mac and still keeps it within Apple Photos. From there I navigate to Facebook, or any other site and choose "Upload" and then navigate to my Desktop location and choose the file/photo from there. After it's uploaded, I delete from the desktop. If you're planning ahead and don't want to upload at a particular moment, you can organize and add photos into an Album and then do the same thing when you're ready to post. Whether you're using iCloud or not, this should be irrelevant. The Finder on your Mac is your BEST FRIEND. Know how to use it inside and out! I hope that helps! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

  • @calgreco8607

    @calgreco8607

    Ай бұрын

    @@Learnwithjoel This works but my lord! When you have a lot of pictures it can be time consuming! Thanks for the help.

  • @toomanytoys
    @toomanytoys7 ай бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @Learnwithjoel

    @Learnwithjoel

    7 ай бұрын

    @toomanytoys, your CONTRIBUTION is so helpful and gives me the opportunity to create more content! Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!

  • @toomanytoys

    @toomanytoys

    7 ай бұрын

    @@Learnwithjoel I'm subscribed. I'm glad I found your channel; you explain the subjects clearly. Retired, so it was a bad time of the month to send superthanks, but I will again.

  • @Learnwithjoel

    @Learnwithjoel

    7 ай бұрын

    No worries at all @toomanytoys! I appreciate your support and watching!