I have a Photo library with 6230 photos and 529 videos on my Mac Book Air M1 that was using iCloud Photos. I logged out of iCloud and then back in. This disabled iCloud Photos so I turned it back on. At that point photos started showing “Updating...” at the bottom of the Library tab.
The status hasn’t changed in around 2.5 hours. If I use fs_usage I can see a com.apple.photos.VideoConversion process doing something with mov files in a cloud sync filecache folder, so it’s doing something. The “updating..” status isn’t particularly useful though.
Is there any way to tell how long “updating” will take or what the status of it is?
edit: it looks like it may be re-uploading all the photos and videos as I see bursts of uploads periodically when the videoconversion process stops running. I have around 60 GB of photos and a 10 mbps upload speed so that would take around 14 hours just to upload everything. Everything is already in iCloud Photos so I don’t know why it would need to upload them again.
The status hasn’t changed in around 2.5 hours. If I use fs_usage I can see a com.apple.photos.VideoConversion process doing something with mov files in a cloud sync filecache folder, so it’s doing something. The “updating..” status isn’t particularly useful though.
Is there any way to tell how long “updating” will take or what the status of it is?
edit: it looks like it may be re-uploading all the photos and videos as I see bursts of uploads periodically when the videoconversion process stops running. I have around 60 GB of photos and a 10 mbps upload speed so that would take around 14 hours just to upload everything. Everything is already in iCloud Photos so I don’t know why it would need to upload them again.
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