photoanalysisd again

[CTHarrryH]

I know there are threads about this a while back but I didn't have this issue until 10.15.5. photoanalysisd is using over 90% of my CPU and last I checked since the last time I killed it it had used 99+ hours of CPU time. I'm not interested in putting people's names on my photos and many are of things not people and I'm not interested in having a slow and hot MAC. I could manually add all the names faster than this is happening. I have added a whole bunch of people because I've seen hints that this speeds up the process.
I know it stops if I open photos and I have tried killing it which works for a while but then it reappears.

Is there any real fix for this? As with other things it would be nice if Apple gave you a choice about this function. I'm considering keeping no photos in the library on my Mac.
Thanks

 

[posguy99]

Is there any real fix for this? As with other things it would be nice if Apple gave you a choice about this function. I'm considering keeping no photos in the library on my Mac.

This really is the best possible answer. There's no reason to bother with Photos.app, especially as long as you can't turn of the nonsense. Plus, it makes it hard to back your photos up.

 

[saudor]

This really is the best possible answer. There's no reason to bother with Photos.app, especially as long as you can't turn of the nonsense. Plus, it makes it hard to back your photos up.

can you recommend any other alternatives that can handle the iPhone specific stuff like slo mo, burst photos, etc ?

 

[posguy99]

No, I just keep them in the filesystem.

 

[CTHarrryH]

10.15.6 seems to have fixed this issue - the process is running but not using any CPU and not slowing down or heating up my Mac