Background Photos App Activity

[VanGoghMan]

Hello all, I have a very specific question.

I'm using a 2012 MacBook Air, and it still works great for the most part, but lately it's felt more bogged down. Today I pulled up the Activity Monitor and noticed that a process named "photolibraryd (PhotoLibraryServices)" is constantly using 15% of the CPU. Parent process is "launchd (1)". I opened Console and saw it's running dozens of processes per second, all of which result in an error which says "Bad adjustment data for async edit Error Domain=com.apple.photos.error Code=47001". I don't know what all this means but it seems to be eating up CPU all the time. Force closing in Activity Monitor didn't do anything, it just restarts itself. Following the trail just brings me to the home page of the Photos app. I've checked the settings there and can't figure out why it would do this, other than being synced to iCloud. Does anyone know what's causing this, or how to fix it?

Thanks a ton in advance!

 

[MacInWin]

Welcome to the forum. Photos is one of the apps that does work in the background. Some of what it does in the background are sync to iCloud, facial recognition, object search index, etc.

For the error code, there is a thread at Apple on the topic from a couple of years ago: Photolibraryd high CPU Load - Apple Community

 

[MacInWin]

Also, you didn't say what version of macOS or Photos you are using, but the problem in the Apple thread was with Catalina.