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w4rm

macrumors regular
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Jun 6, 2014
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The picker in Desktop & Screen Save is always incomplete, it's not showing photos that aren't downloaded locally, whereas iOS shows all photos instantly.

Am I missing something it's been this way for years and I'm not sure if it's just my own photos library, I've tried repairing it many times with no success, I recently updated to Monterrey and thought it might be an issue that would be fixed by now. I'm on an M1 too with fast internet.

Is this general bug others are experiencing or is my Photos library file corrupt? I'm using iCloud photos.

Screenshot - System Preferences - Desktop & Screen Saver@2x.png


When selecting Photos from the finder open dialog for example in Pixelmator or any other app that accepts photos I usually need to wait about 2 minutes for it to load. And it doesn't load my full album either. The interface is pretty dated too, I feel they haven't updated this part of macOS in years.

Screenshot - Pixelmator Pro - Open@2x.png
 
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