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Stopping photoanalysisd process

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Mcrumors David

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Oct 8, 2014
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I am trying to kill photoanalysis on Catalina.

This worked on the previous OS:

- remove system process via (sudo yes | rm -r /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PhotoAnalysis.framework/Versions/A/Support/photoanalysisd)
- install cronjob to kill the process (/1 * * * * launchctl disable gui/501/com.apple.photoanalysisd && launchctl kill -TERM gui/501/com.apple.photoanalysisd)

Now - even with SIP disabled - I cannot remove system files (what a joke) so option 1 does not work. option 2 seems to Not work anymore.

Any help?
 
You have to mount the system volume as a read-write volume is you want to write on it.
 
SilvanSwiss said:
It's a useless process that consumes CPU for no reason.
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Well, unless you actually do want to have your photos tagged by the people in them. You know, to be able to search for photos of a particular person. I'd also bet that this process generates the data for the other new photos features in Catalina (the organisation in the All Photos tab, for example) and underpins search for other types of photo content beside people too. If you don't want any of that, fine: saying the whole thing is useless (and implying that everyone should disable it) isn't really helpful IMO.
 
alFR said:
Well, unless you actually do want to have your photos tagged by the people in them. You know, to be able to search for photos of a particular person. I'd also bet that this process generates the data for the other new photos features in Catalina (the organisation in the All Photos tab, for example) and underpins search for other types of photo content beside people too. If you don't want any of that, fine: saying the whole thing is useless (and implying that everyone should disable it) isn't really helpful IMO.
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1. Whether or not I call is useless is irrelevant to the topic, which is how to disable it. I do agree that "most" users only have a few photos and hence do not care about this process running for a few hours...

Still, trying to find a solution here only ...
 
Ritsuka said:
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macOS 10.15 Catalina: How to Mount Root Partition Read/Write for Post-Installation

Just a quick post to share how to install Clover and other stuff to a 10.15 Catalina drive. The root partition is read-only by default. To make it read/write, use the following steps. 1. Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal 2. Make the root partition read/write by entering the following: sudo...
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Cool. Removed the files as previously possible in Mojave thanks
 
I am really tired of this process. The last 6 days it wrote more than 500GB to my SSD, that is more than the space occupied by all of my images in various Photos Libraries.

Any help on how to disable this process, prefer in a library basis, would be very mich appreciated!
 
I haven't tested this in Catalina, but it works in Big Sur:
Code: 
launchctl bootout gui/501/com.apple.photoanalysisd
launchctl disable gui/501/com.apple.photoanalysisd
to re-enable it
Code: 
launchctl enable gui/501/com.apple.photoanalysisd
launchctl bootstrap gui/501/com.apple.photoanalysisd
 
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