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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-H170 Gaming 3
- CPU
- Core i7-7700K
- Graphics
- Intel HD 630
I'm posting this info here in the event it helps someone else down the line. I've got a fresh install of 10.13.3 on my system. Everything works, except for Photos. When I enabled the iCloud Photo Library option in Photos, the app would just sit with the message "Updating x Items", but nothing would ever download. Nothing seemed to work. I spent a couple weeks on this trying every suggestion I came across. Today, I opened the Console and saw several messages stating something about the network quality not meeting a minimum speed. The messages stated that the speed detected was 0.00mb/s. I'm using a USB wifi adapter. This made me think that High Sierra wasn't able to somehow meter my third-party USB wifi connection, which might be causing the hanging. So on a whim, I bridged the wifi connection and the standard ethernet connection in the Network pane of System Preferences and Photos immediately started working!
So here are some instructions for anyone else stuck in the same boat I was:
1. Open System Preferences
2. Open the Network pane
3. Click on the padlock icon to unlock the preference pane, if necessary
4. Click on the small gear icon in the bottom left part of the window
5. Select "Manage Virtual Interfaces..."
6. Click on the plus (+) icon
7. Select "New Bridge..."
7. Select your wifi connection and the ethernet connection
8. Name the bridge whatever you want and click Done
9. Click Done again
10. Click Apply
After a few seconds, your bridge should get an IP address and hopefully, Photos starts working for you!
So here are some instructions for anyone else stuck in the same boat I was:
1. Open System Preferences
2. Open the Network pane
3. Click on the padlock icon to unlock the preference pane, if necessary
4. Click on the small gear icon in the bottom left part of the window
5. Select "Manage Virtual Interfaces..."
6. Click on the plus (+) icon
7. Select "New Bridge..."
7. Select your wifi connection and the ethernet connection
8. Name the bridge whatever you want and click Done
9. Click Done again
10. Click Apply
After a few seconds, your bridge should get an IP address and hopefully, Photos starts working for you!