Mac Photos imported photos not showing up

[badger1212]

I've just imported about 100Gbs worth of Photos from an SD card into Mac OSX Photos. It took a while but the circle timer seem to finish and when I look in Finder I can see the Photos library has a size of 100Gb but I can't view them anywhere in Photos itself - not Imports or anywhere. I've tried rebooting, rebuilding the library, updating to the latest OS but still can't see them. Can anyone help?

 

[Slartibart]

launch Photos while holding down the option and command keys - repair your database (this may trigger a complete check of your iCloud Photo Library)

 

[badger1212]

I think I’ve figured out what it is. Somehow all the photo files on my external drive got classified as locked. If I manually unlock them I can now import them. I’ve no idea why they became locked as I didn’t do it.

 

[badger1212]

Now to find an easy way of unlocking 100Gb worth of picture files in different folders

 

[Slartibart]

Now to find an easy way of unlocking 100Gb worth of picture files in different folders

Launch /Applications/Utilities/Terminal and use this command at the prompt

chflags -R nouchg /Volumes/my-external-drive

Press return.

Extend path as required.