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Imported photos not showing in Photos > Imports

Recently I imported several photos from Mail to Photos on my iMac (10.14.6) by right-clicking and selecting Export to Photos. When I opened Photos, there was no notification of the import and nothing in the Import tab. When I tried again using both "Export to Photos" and a click-and-drag to the Photos icon, I received a notice that these photos were already imported. I looked around and finally found the photos in My Photo Stream. I then restarted my iMac and the photos finally showed up in the Imports tab. Is this just a one-time glitch, or should I be doing something different regarding importing? Is there any routine maintenance/indexing that needs to be done to the Photos Library?

iMac 27" 5K, macOS 10.14

Posted on Dec 28, 2019 8:55 AM

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Posted on Dec 28, 2019 9:49 AM

Yes, I am aware of this article, and I performed both of the instructions. The photos imported, but they just didn't show up where I would expect them to--in the Imports tab. They only showed up in the My Photo Stream tab. But after a computer restart, they showed up in the Imports tab. I'm just going to chalk it up to another computer mystery. Also, in the meantime, I ran the OnyX maintenance routine. Maybe that will clean out anything that was causing the problem.


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Dec 28, 2019 9:49 AM in response to tygb

Yes, I am aware of this article, and I performed both of the instructions. The photos imported, but they just didn't show up where I would expect them to--in the Imports tab. They only showed up in the My Photo Stream tab. But after a computer restart, they showed up in the Imports tab. I'm just going to chalk it up to another computer mystery. Also, in the meantime, I ran the OnyX maintenance routine. Maybe that will clean out anything that was causing the problem.


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Imported photos not showing in Photos > Imports

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