Migrating Photos Library

[silvia_18]

Hi,

I have 16,843 photos and 920 videos in my Photos library. I moved from my 17" MacBook Pro 2009 to my new MacBook Air 2020 by copying the Photos Library file onto a hard drive and then onto the MacBook Air. When I check Activity Monitor I don't have photoanalysisd or photolibraryd running (they did at some point as they clocked about 4 hours of CPY time) but the Peoples tab is always telling it's updating people and to quit and connect to a power source. I've left it over night twice so the computer could index and do what it needs to do in the background.

My question is should I have had the MacBook Air download the photos over the internet rather than copying from the MacBook Pro that was running on El Capitan? Or did it get stuck and I can somehow kick start the scanning?

Thank you all for the help.

 

[BigMcGuire]

The people scanning will go on for awhile. I have 60,000+ videos and photos. When I first put my library (100k+ when I first copied over) to Photos, it took many months to finally scan all the people.

Years later I thinned down the images, got rid of duplicates, and what not.

New devices always seem to need to process the Peoples tab... and it can take weeks... and weeks.

I would have had the air just do its thing instead of copying over the photos - just download originals from iCloud Photos or optimize.

 

[silvia_18]

So I just needed to be more patient? ?

I've copied off the photos library, deleted it and waiting for it all to download. Thanks for the help.