Applies to all new macOS: 10.15 (Catalina), 10.14(Mojave), 10.13 (High Sierra), 10.12, and old Mac OS X like 10.11 (El Capitan), 10.9, etc.
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2) In the main Photos window (at the very bottom), click the 'Pause' link. It will tell you that it's pausing the operation until tonight. 3) Quit the Photos app. 4) In Finder, select Pictures from the left sidebar and you'll see the Photos.Library.photoslibrary file. Restore Your Photos From iCloud If all of your photos are stored in iCloud Photos, you can restore them from the cloud. Launch Photos while holding down the Option key to create a new Photos Library. Make it your main library (System Photo Library). To repair your library, close 'Photos' app by choosing 'Photos' and then selecting 'Quit Photos' option. Press Option-Command and double-click the 'Photos' icon located in the 'Applications' folder or you can click the 'Photos' icon located in the Dock. A 'Repair library' window opens up. Click 'Repair' to rebuild your photo library.
The article provides full solutions to recover photos after Photos Library corruption and fix the corrupted Photos Library:
| Workable Solutions | Step-by-step Troubleshooting |
|---|---|
| Part 1. Recover lost photos after Photos Library corruption | Fix 1. Restore lost photos with EaseUS Mac data recovery software in three steps...Full steps |
| Part 2. Repair corrupted Photos Library | Step 1. Close Photo Library if it's opened. |
Photos Library corrupted, help me restore my photos, please.
'Hi there, can anyone of you tell me how to restore my lost photos on Mac? The Photos Library corrupted suddenly. All my photos stored in the Photos Library all disappeared. What can I do?
Please help me. And this is important for me to recover photos. Any solutions or suggestions are all welcomed.'
How To Repair Photos Library On Mac
How many of you guys are facing Photos Library crash or corrupt problem and unable to restore photos? Here EaseUS software provides effective methods to prevent similar problems from happening again, follow to repair Photos Library, and recover all photos on Mac immediately.
Tip: Back up photos in case of losing them
If you didn't lose photos, the best choice is to backup them first. When unexpected troubles happen to your photos, you'll still have the backups. Here we recommend you to use Time Machine to backup all important photos and other data on Mac:
1. Click Time Machine and choose Set Up Time Machine.
2. Click Select Backup Disk or select locations (an external storage device is preferable) back up photos, and then click Use for Backup.
You can also copy photos and files one by one and paste them to another storage device where you want to store the backups. Be patient and careful while copying and pasting.
Part 1. Recover lost photos after photos library corruption
If photos lost due to Photos application or Photos Library corruption, you have two ways to restore the lost photos: 1. Restore lost photos with Mac data recovery software; 2. Retrieve Photos Library with photos from Times Machine backup.
Method 1. Restore lost photos with EaseUS Mac data recovery software
If you didn't create a backup of Photos Library in the Time Machine, you'll need Mac data recovery software to help. We recommend you try EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac which supports recovering photos from corrupted Photo Library and even worse situations.
Step 1. Launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac, hover the mouse over the system drive where the Photos Library is, and click 'Scan'.
Step 2. After finishing the scan, click 'Photos' in Quick Access. All your lost photos will list here.
Step 3. Double-click to preview the photo, select the right one and click 'Recover' to save the photos to another secure location on Mac.
Method 2. Restore corrupted Photos Library with photos from Time Machine backup
How To Repair Photos Library
If you've created a backup of Photos Library with Time Machine, follow the steps below to restore Photos Library and all lost photos:
1. Connect Time Machine backup drive.
2. Click Time Machine in the Dock and enter Time Machine
3. Find backups - your photos then click Restore to recover lost photos.
Part 2. Repair corrupted Photos Library
If the Photos behaves unexpectedly or Photos Library corrupts, follow the next steps to start repairing Photos Library with Photos library repair tool:
Step 1. Close Photo Library if it's opened.
Step 2. Relaunch Photo Library by holding Command + Option key.
Step 3. Click 'Repair' when the 'Repair Library' dialog pops up and asks whether you'd like to repair the library.
You might be asked to enter your account and password to authorize the library repair. And the Repair tool will analyze the database of Photos Library, repair detected errors.
If your Photos library is automatically updated with iCloud Photos, the entire contents of the library will re-updates with iCloud when the repair process completes.
Bonus Tip: Create a new Photos Library
The other alternative way to repair the corrupted Photos Library is to create a new Photos Library on Mac. By doing so, you'll have your Photo Library back and reuse it to edit your photos again:
Step 1. Hold the Option key and double-click the Photos icon in the Applications folder (or click the Photos icon in the Dock).
Step 2. In the Choose Library dialogue, click Create New.
Step 3. Type a library name and choose a location to store the library. Click OK to confirm.
Repair Photos Library On External Drive
You will frequently see a recommendation to repair your Photos Library (How to use the Photos library repair tool – Apple Support), if Photos is crashing or giving unexpected results. But do not rush in - repairing should only be used as a last resort, for several reasons:
- Repairing will only help, if your library has a damage, that can be repaired, for example permission problems or if Photos has been crashing and left the library in an inconsistent state.
- Repairing a library can make the damage worse, if the library is damaged beyond repair. Make sure you have a working backup copy, before you try to repair a Photos Library (Back up the library in Photos on Mac - Apple Support). It is difficult to backup a library, that is syncing with iCloud and using the 'Optimize Storage' feature: How to back up an optimized iCloud Photos… - Apple Community
- Repairing a library is an expensive operation.
- It will take a long time and need plenty of additional free storage on the volume with the library.
- if your library is an iCloud Photos Library, it will be treated as a new library, see: 'If you repair a library that's automatically updated with iCloud Photos, the entire contents of the library re-updates with iCloud after the repair process completes.'. This means, you may need to have twice the storage if the library in iCloud to be able to sync it again with iCloud, even it it will not need actually twice the size in iCloud.
So, before you try to repair a library, do some trouble shouting to isolate the issue and be sure, that indeed the problem you are seeing is caused by your current Photos Library.
- Ensure, that your Photos Library is on a supported volume: If your library is on an external volume, that is accessed over the network, or is used by Time Machine, or has an incompatible file system format, or has a case.sensitive format, move the library to a supported volume. Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac - Apple Support. Do not even think about repairing the library while it is on an unsupported volume.
- Make sure, that the drive with the library does not have any hardware issues. Do not try to repair the library on a volume that is failing. Run a check with Disk Utilility. Run Apple Diagnostics.
- Ensure, that the Photos.app is working correctly on a different Photos Library. Create a new, empty Photos Library for testing and import some new photos (See: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/photos/pht6d60b524/mac). Does Photos work when using a different library? If yes, repairing the library may help.
- If Photos is not even working on a new test library, repairing the library will be a waste of time and you may need to fix your user account (How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac - Apple Support) or the system.
If Photos is working fine with a different library and the problematic library is on a supported volume, and only this particular library is having issues, go ahead and try the repair, after you made a backup copy (without overwriting any good backups you are still having). To ensure you are trying to repair the correct library, do it slightly differently from Apple's instructions. Launch Photos by clicking the library you want to repair, not the icon of the Photos.app.
How To Repair Photos Library On Mac
- If the Photos app on your Mac is open, choose Photos > Quit Photos.
- Select the Photos Library that need repairing in the Finder.
- Press Option-Command and double-click the selected Photos Library.
- In the Repair Library window, click Repair to rebuild your photo library.
Good luck for your library repair.