Yesterday I ran into an issue where I was unable to successfully restore my Photos library from my external time machine backup (directly plugged into my late 27" iMac). The restore got stuck at "Preparing to copy". I let it sit there like that for the better part of 6 hours then decided to try First Aid. The attached screenshot is where it has been stuck for about 9 hours so far. Also, my backup drive is a 4TB drive that is nearly full. In addition, my internal is a Crucial SSD is 2TB drive with about 1.5TB in use before the restore problems with Photos.
My issues actually started with trying to import videos from Photos through the iMovie interface then iMovie crashed and would not load my library and that also could not be restored due to lack of available space on my iMac.
So my question is how long do I let the disk utility run? Should I attempt a complete time machine restore of my entire iMac? Try migration assistant?
Luckily I had copied my older iMovie and Photos libraries in Nov 2022 and also all of my important files so I can recover most of what I have without the time machine working properly. I will lose some Holiday season videos which is a bummer (stupidly emptied my recently deleted in photos and my trash on my iMac).
My issues actually started with trying to import videos from Photos through the iMovie interface then iMovie crashed and would not load my library and that also could not be restored due to lack of available space on my iMac.
So my question is how long do I let the disk utility run? Should I attempt a complete time machine restore of my entire iMac? Try migration assistant?
Luckily I had copied my older iMovie and Photos libraries in Nov 2022 and also all of my important files so I can recover most of what I have without the time machine working properly. I will lose some Holiday season videos which is a bummer (stupidly emptied my recently deleted in photos and my trash on my iMac).
