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Just upgraded my MacBook Air mid-2012 to Catalina. Open Photos and it attempted to migrate the library (~36GB on internal drive). I soon get the error, An error occurred while migrating the photo library. And Please quit and relaunch Photos and try again. Tried to repair tool to no avail.
Any ideas?
MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.15
See the article https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205966
If you have trouble migrating an existing iPhoto or Aperture library to Photos
You might see an alert message when you first open Photos or migrate an existing iPhoto or Aperture library. Learn what to do if Photos can’t copy or create a library.
See the article https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205966
If you have trouble migrating an existing iPhoto or Aperture library to Photos
You might see an alert message when you first open Photos or migrate an existing iPhoto or Aperture library. Learn what to do if Photos can’t copy or create a library.
Do you have plenty of free storage? Photos will need some additional storage while upgrading the library.
Is your Photos Library an iCloud Photos Library or stored locally?
Sometimes it helps to repair the permissions of the Photos Library manually from the "File > Get Info" panel, before you can upgrade the library.
Change only the permissions and nothing else.
A common problem with Photos after the upgrade to Catalina are incompatible media files in the library. Photos cannot handle any longer some video formats and image formats, that have been compatible with Photos 4 on Mojave. Did you check your library for image files and videos, that are incompatible with Catalina?
Thanks for your feedback. Photos library is stored locally with plenty of space left on the Mac. Permissions seem to be fine. In regards to incompatible formats, I can't find of a list of compatible/incompatible formats. How would I go about searching the library as I can't open it in Photos?
See this https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/mac-help/mchle1529919/mac
You have to set up icloud photos https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/photos/phtf5e48489c/5.0/mac/10.15
Thanks for the feedback. I'm upgrading from Photos in Mojave to Catalina so I don't think this is my issues.
Photo Library won't open after Catalina upgrade
