What happened to my Smart Folders in Photos?

[ToddJ]

I recently upgraded to Big Sur from Mojave and most everything went well. However, on the photos app, I have some folders that had only Smart Folders in them and they are all missing. Has anyone else had this problem?

 

[darngooddesign]

Photos works fine for me, albums and smart albums included, post upgrade.

 

[ToddJ]

Anyone else had this problem? is there a fix for this?

 

[colourfastt]

Anyone else had this problem? is there a fix for this?

I had the problem, but I'm not sure there's a fix.

When I first installed BS, Photos would "lose" my smart folders. After a few days, BS started throwing kernel panics and it got so bad I had to reinstall Catalina then BS. After the reinstall, I no longer had the problem with BS losing the Photos folders.

 

[ToddJ]

I would hate to reinstall Big Sur just to get the Smart Folders to work though...I hope there is another way to do it

 

[ToddJ]

they still haven’t came back yet. I tried remaking them but some of them I don’t remember what they are

 

[vanhaze2020]

Have you tried to repair your Photos library ?
You can do that by holding down both the ALT key and CMD key and then (assuming you have Photos in Dock)
click the Photos icon.