![]() ![]() I think this is really common, even among people who know better, because it’s so much easier. Like Josh Hill, he was using optimized photo storage. In the real world, I just wanted to know what it was waiting on. ![]() It is not quite a silent failure but it is in the spirit of one, where Apple seems to have assumed that its software will perform correctly and users should never need to intervene. Even so, the lack of any way for me to figure out which items are only in iCloud and not on my local drive is a baffling omission. I only have myself to blame for getting to this point. Happily, after repairing my library and waiting for it to reconcile with iCloud, it seems there were only 21 missing original media files which needed a local copy, and they seem to have downloaded. While writing this paragraph, I can see the library file slowly increasing in size however, the number of original files remaining to be downloaded has not budged. There does not appear to be any logging, nor any status window. Photos has Smart Albums but, unlike Music, it does not have a filtering criteria for whether the original file has been downloaded. The only information I have is a message in Photos, saying there are 42 originals not yet downloaded - but which ones are missing is anyone’s guess. My Mac has been dutifully downloading tens of thousands of original media files from iCloud until earlier this week when it decided to stop. Apple’s documentation implies Spotlight will work for whichever library is the system one, but the message in Photos implies that libraries stored on external drives will not be indexed. A week later, it has not disappeared and images from Photos are, indeed, not searchable in Spotlight. So I assumed this message would disappear after my Mac figured out I had moved its library.
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