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I have a theory, and my testing is quite close to (hopefully) revealing the answer.
My hypothesis is when a library is designated systems library, and we have a video in a format photos no longer recognises, it begins to panic. This would be especially true if we have iCloud photos enabled ( I don't) or photo streaming. I just have streaming. I've looked at activity monitor and the photos app runs in the background when it's closed quite often. It does lots of processing for streaming to other devices, and iCloud.
My testing has been using multiple pathways, to rule things in and out and so far...
It's not an actual photos (pic) problem. I ruled that out with multiple library and different avenue testing. It is video. When I remove video (all of them) in my SYSTEMS LIBRARY, the system NO LONGER FREEZES. As soon as I put them back in, it freezes. I'm converting them all to a more standard format (instead of the 3 diff types prior)to check the outcome. My hypothesis is that it WILL WORK.
Maybe later, I can work out which format is the one causing issues, I suspect it is the MOV. format. If it isn't a format issue, it may be one video that's corrupted. I cannot explain why the library had historically no issues and working and now it does not. Whenever a library is NOT designated a systems library, regardless of videos in the library, it will NOT FREEZE.
I'll repost later.
EDIT: library issue ties in with me earlier in this thread suspecting it was a SSD problem, as I did have the photos library on said SSD. I never got around to making it default library at the time though. In hindsight, it's likely that it is not a ssd problem, but photos,or really the videos component.
EDIT 2: As we don't see issues in legitimate macs regarding vid format, that I can see on the web, the proposal a video may be corrupted is also likely.
My hypothesis is when a library is designated systems library, and we have a video in a format photos no longer recognises, it begins to panic. This would be especially true if we have iCloud photos enabled ( I don't) or photo streaming. I just have streaming. I've looked at activity monitor and the photos app runs in the background when it's closed quite often. It does lots of processing for streaming to other devices, and iCloud.
My testing has been using multiple pathways, to rule things in and out and so far...
It's not an actual photos (pic) problem. I ruled that out with multiple library and different avenue testing. It is video. When I remove video (all of them) in my SYSTEMS LIBRARY, the system NO LONGER FREEZES. As soon as I put them back in, it freezes. I'm converting them all to a more standard format (instead of the 3 diff types prior)to check the outcome. My hypothesis is that it WILL WORK.
Maybe later, I can work out which format is the one causing issues, I suspect it is the MOV. format. If it isn't a format issue, it may be one video that's corrupted. I cannot explain why the library had historically no issues and working and now it does not. Whenever a library is NOT designated a systems library, regardless of videos in the library, it will NOT FREEZE.
I'll repost later.
EDIT: library issue ties in with me earlier in this thread suspecting it was a SSD problem, as I did have the photos library on said SSD. I never got around to making it default library at the time though. In hindsight, it's likely that it is not a ssd problem, but photos,or really the videos component.
EDIT 2: As we don't see issues in legitimate macs regarding vid format, that I can see on the web, the proposal a video may be corrupted is also likely.
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