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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1802282" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>It gets curiouser and curiouser. Last night after 30 hours of zero progress, I decided to do a "repair" on the Photos database. There is a procedure for that in the Photos help, so I followed the steps and it went through a series of rebuilding and fixing steps, with the "complete" bar slowly progressing until it was 100% done and the bar was replaced by "start using Photos." </p><p></p><p>Great! I clicked on the start using button and sure enough, up came Photos with all my pictures intact. I went to the People pay and got a message saying it was scanning and would display once done. Fair enough, I left it alone. I noted that there was a process named VTDecoderXPCService, that was pounding away at something, taking up between 230 and 280% of the CPU (yes, that's possible, that just means that it was using between two and three of the cores exclusively). It ran that way for several hours. At bedtime I opened Photos again and went to the People page and it reported that it had scanned 3,141 with 5,364 to go. VTDecoderXPCServer had taken 3 hours, 57 minutes 18.47 seconds of CPU to get to that point.</p><p></p><p>So, this morning I fully expected to see some real progress.</p><p></p><p>Nope, it's at 3,141/5,364, VTDecoderXPCService is now taking 0% of the CPU. Basically I've taken a step backwards. I have fewer images scanned, still cannot use my People page as advertised, Apple is stumped, and I'm out of ideas.</p><p></p><p>So, I'm now considering just whacking the entire database (Move it out from where it is) and restarting Photos, That should then recreate the database and then I can add back the pictures from where I exported them a couple of days ago.</p><p></p><p>What I need is the answer to the question of what then would happen to iCloud and my iPhone and iPad? Will the new database sync and overwrite what is on them or will it add duplicates to them or will the move the basically transparent as long as the filenames remain the same? </p><p></p><p>Also, can anybody tell me if the fact that some of the photos are jpg and some are heic format would make a difference? It shouldn't, as that's how Apple set it up, but at this point I'm clutching at straws.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1802282, member: 396914"] It gets curiouser and curiouser. Last night after 30 hours of zero progress, I decided to do a "repair" on the Photos database. There is a procedure for that in the Photos help, so I followed the steps and it went through a series of rebuilding and fixing steps, with the "complete" bar slowly progressing until it was 100% done and the bar was replaced by "start using Photos." Great! I clicked on the start using button and sure enough, up came Photos with all my pictures intact. I went to the People pay and got a message saying it was scanning and would display once done. Fair enough, I left it alone. I noted that there was a process named VTDecoderXPCService, that was pounding away at something, taking up between 230 and 280% of the CPU (yes, that's possible, that just means that it was using between two and three of the cores exclusively). It ran that way for several hours. At bedtime I opened Photos again and went to the People page and it reported that it had scanned 3,141 with 5,364 to go. VTDecoderXPCServer had taken 3 hours, 57 minutes 18.47 seconds of CPU to get to that point. So, this morning I fully expected to see some real progress. Nope, it's at 3,141/5,364, VTDecoderXPCService is now taking 0% of the CPU. Basically I've taken a step backwards. I have fewer images scanned, still cannot use my People page as advertised, Apple is stumped, and I'm out of ideas. So, I'm now considering just whacking the entire database (Move it out from where it is) and restarting Photos, That should then recreate the database and then I can add back the pictures from where I exported them a couple of days ago. What I need is the answer to the question of what then would happen to iCloud and my iPhone and iPad? Will the new database sync and overwrite what is on them or will it add duplicates to them or will the move the basically transparent as long as the filenames remain the same? Also, can anybody tell me if the fact that some of the photos are jpg and some are heic format would make a difference? It shouldn't, as that's how Apple set it up, but at this point I'm clutching at straws. [/QUOTE]
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