Importing photos to Photos, and it seems to be stuck...

[PinkyMacGodess]

It's been running for a few hours, and stuck here:



Do I have too many images on my iPhone? The iPhone is running iOS 14.7.1, the mac is on macOS 11.5.2... Is there a 'blown' image file? Weird that it is stuck here, and for so long...

Thanks for any ideas on how to free this hot mess up...

 

[usagora]

Yikes! You must take photos of everything, LOL!

For sure, I'd not try to import 20,000 photos at one time. Try maybe 1000 at a time. Just click the cancel ("x") and try again in smaller batches.

I'm confused about the second progress bar there, though. Makes no sense (0 of 0???).

 

[Shirasaki]

The best I can come up with is canceling the import, find out where those temp files are, delete them, and try again.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Yikes! You must take photos of everything, LOL!

For sure, I'd not try to import 20,000 photos at one time. Try maybe 1000 at a time. Just click the cancel ("x") and try again in smaller batches.

I'm confused about the second progress bar there, though. Makes no sense (0 of 0???).

Yeah, now that you mention it. I haven't a clue. I thought it was showing items out of the number of 'new items', but that doesn't make sense. Is Photos/sync running 2 sync jobs? First question how, but yeah, that would gum stuff up for sure. Weird...

It's like it just stopped. I unplugged and plugged back in, once, and it picked up and imported more images, and then stopped again.

Maybe unplugging and plugging back in started the second import? Still doesn't make any sense...

 

[w5jck]

You blew its little mind with all those photos! Photos app on macOS is total rubbish, so it probably crapped out. Photos on iPhone might have required more space than the iPhone has. 20,000 photos is a lot, and I really don't see how you could ever utilize that many on an iPhone. Organizing and finding any of them with 20,000 loaded would be a nightmare.

Probably the best thing to do is shut down both the Mac and the iPhone, then restart them. (Don't do a reset, just do a restart.) Hopefully that will clear out whatever happened. Then try importing fewer photos at a time.

 

[now i see it]

I've never found any computer or operating system that won't crash (including web servers) when trying to copy over untold thousands of files in one go. They all crash.
You've got to do it a bit at a time (like maybe 300).