I saw a couple of old abandoned threads on this, so hope it's ok to post here now.
I spend some time yesterday (on my M1 MBA) scanning in some old photos and identifying a lot of the names and faces and cleaning up some multiple names. (I already had the majority of faces in my library identified before. This is only a couple dozen additions.) Now I have dozens of multiple listings for the same people, and on the bottom of each of their "pages," it says "Updating {name}... Photos will finish updating when Photos is in the background."
So. Many. Questions.
I spend some time yesterday (on my M1 MBA) scanning in some old photos and identifying a lot of the names and faces and cleaning up some multiple names. (I already had the majority of faces in my library identified before. This is only a couple dozen additions.) Now I have dozens of multiple listings for the same people, and on the bottom of each of their "pages," it says "Updating {name}... Photos will finish updating when Photos is in the background."
So. Many. Questions.
- What does "in the background" mean or want me to do? Keep Photos open? Quit the app, and it will work on its own? Keep my MBA awake at all times?
- As previously cited by folks, it's taking forever. Does anyone have any clues of any practice (see above) that makes it go as fast as it can. Does it work better while Photos is launched or quit? (PS I don't use iCloud photos, but I do use Photo Stream.) There's no indicator of progress.
- What is it actually doing?
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