Repairing Book

[Lorin Cupples]

Whenever I open the photo app on my MBP, it says the database has some problems and needs to be repaired, and when I press the repair button, it runs and it stuck at 99% for over 24 hours. I force quitted and reopen the app, it still the same and it also stuck at 99% in the repair phase.

I have the same problem except my HDD is formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). It's been stuck on 99% for a good while and the total process has taken about 26 hours at this point, with no end in sight. My library is about 140 GB. I reached out to Apple support about this issue and they just told me to wait a bit longer.

I can see that there are a few processes in the Activity Monitor related to the Photos app that appear and reappear, so I guess it's doing something. Once every few hours the "Date Modified" for the Photos library in Finder updates too

At least, while trying to repair the library move it to a locally mounted drive, formatted correctly as MacOS Extended (Journaled) and not case sensitive and not used by Time Machine. Can you repair the library at all?

You have been lucky for a long time. A Photos Library can be damaged beyond repair, when being used on a NAS - it has not been designed to work on a network share, see: Sharing photo libraries among multiple users - Apple Support

Connect an external USB, FireWire, or Thunderbolt drive which has enough free space to contain the library.
Be sure to choose a locally mounted drive. Storing your library on a network share can lead to poor performance, data corruption, or data loss.

Just wanna ask, I am currently doing Photo backup to my iCloud (but not photo sharing), if I have selected the "Optimize Storage" on my iphone, can the old pic (i.e. the original one that have been uploaded to the iCloud) sync with the Photo library in its original file size instead of the downsized version stored from the iPhone for preview only? This has been puzzling me for a while.

iCloud Photo Library is storing all photos in the full resolution in iCloud, exactly the original files you uploaded to iCloud. From there the photos will sync to your devices and it will depend on your preferences on each device, if the photos will download to the device optimized or as the full sized original.

If all photos are currently in iCloud, also the most recently imported photos, you could simply delete your current photos library and create a new empty library. Enable this library as your iCloud Photo Library and wait for the photos to download back from iCloud. This should recreate all albums, metadata, and edits. The only things that will be missing, will be your projects. If you have projects that you need to save, you will have to restore the library from a backup, if the repair does not succeed.

then you were lucky - some people have had it work for a long time but it will quit working and even when you thin it is working errors may be occurring that will cause lost data in the future - - as you can see it is not working now and Apple has documented that the library can not be on a NAS - it must be on a local volume which is the solution for your problem

Hi i am having the exact issues going on 14 hours and it is stuck on 99%. Trying to get a genius bar appointment because the rep that called was bo help whatsoever. I had 10000 pictures that have somehow disappeared and got prompted to repair the library. Pls any advise

However, I have an update. After waking up this morning it was still "repairing" at 99%. I decided that 48 hours was too much and aborted the process. I turned off my computer and turned it back on. I tried opening the Photos app and it said the library was corrupted and had to be repaired so I started the process again. It took about an hour or two and then it was done!

Just a tip if anyone has the same problem, make sure to shut down and then turn on your computer, not just restart. The way I understand it is that a complete shut down gets rid of more cache stuff, removes the power completely from the RAM, etc.

So, I've been having the same problem with this computer for a while now, but haven't had time until now to try and solve the issue. It will boot up and then go to a black screen with the HP logo in the middle and below that, it says in white letters "Scanning and repairing drive (C:): 7% complete". It never completes, it just runs that circle around and around. I'm willing to try anything at the moment. Ideally, I would like to save some files on my computer, but I doubt this will be possible...

My origin keeps unnecessarily repairing my Sims 4 game. The repairing starts every time i open the Origin application and i have to manually stop all the repairs happening just so i can play the game. I have Origin on Windows. I already tries uninstalling and reinstalling Origin and the problem is still happening. Has anyone had this issue before and found a solution?

restart your computer, and repair one more time. It may also help to have auto game updates disabled in Origin: hover over your username, select Application Settings, then under Application (the first header), scroll down to Client update and disable automatic game updates.

I did a full scale decluttered including removing all and any mods prior to starting the process and I am still having this issue. I even uninstalled and reinstalled the app itself on my computer as well as updated the app, and restarted my computer twice. Origin wasn't recognizing that an expansion I just added was downloaded and the system auto repaired the whole game twice without me initiating. Game itself worked fine when I tested it, and this morning it had started up an auto repairing of the game again after I opened the app. Cancelled each individual repairing and closed out the app and restarted and now the app won't even open!

@LILLMIKKILLS The regular uninstall process doesn't remove some hidden files, so it's more thorough to clear Origin's cache. After you've done so, try manually repairing one more time, and see whether Origin will stop repairing on its own.

I did that and it's still auto repairing every single time I reopen origin. Now my story mode doesn't work unless I let it finish the full verify on every single game pack.. which is well a lot for trying to play everytime

If that doesn't help, try disabling your antivirus while Origin runs the repair, and run Origin as an admin (right-click the shortcut and select "Run as administrator") just as an experiment. It would be interesting to see whether Origin stopped repairing after one round.

After I moved halfway across the country to Galveston, Texas, a few years ago, my life took a new direction in more than a geographical sense. For a country person at heart who had spent at least half a century in cold northern cities, the warm southern rural environment into which I now was immersed set long dormant creative juices flowing once again. I took up wildlife photography and joined the local birding club.

Maureen has a great many doilies, dresser sets, and other pieces that Mama crocheted, not all of them in good condition. She asked if I could repair some damaged doilies. I did, and she was pleased with the results. She then asked me if I would take on the repair of a favorite tablecloth under which she remembered playing hide-and-seek as a child.

Another inconsistency in the pattern is that some motifs consist of rounds of four double-crochet clusters, whereas others have rounds consisting simply of groups of four double-crochet stitches. (The double-crochet clusters are four double crochet in a row that are joined at the top as opposed to the group of four double-crochet stitches, which are simply four double-crochet stitches in a row that stand independently of each other.) This difference led me to believe that the tablecloth was worked over a long period, each motif was made separately, and then all of the motifs were joined at once. Whoever designed it and however long it took to make, the tablecloth nonetheless is beautiful and lovingly worked.

The repairs turned out to be far more daunting than I had anticipated. Nearly every motif needed at least one repair; some of them were quite complex. Most of the repairs involved clusters, V-stitches, double crochets, and single crochets in the upper rounds that rested on chains in the lower rounds. The steps for repairing double-crochet stitches are shown below.

Before attempting a repair for the first time, make a swatch in worsted-weight yarn duplicating the area that will need repair and then cut the yarn to correspond to the damaged places in the piece itself. Study the composition of the stitches and how they fit together, and practice your repair on the swatch until you can do it to your satisfaction.

Before beginning the repair, it is important to weave in the original thread ends (which may be brittle) to keep them out of the way both during the repair and afterward; if they should break then, you would have to rip out the repair and further enlarge the opening again to provide ends long enough to weave into the back.

To deal with stitches in the row/round above the row/round that needs repair, first pick up the bottoms of those stitches and place them on a safety pin (recommended in the case of just a few stitches, particularly double crochet) or contrasting thread (recommended for single crochet or a large number of stitches).

Remove the damaged threads slowly and gently, placing the newly released bottom loops of the stitches and any loops that were already unattached onto a safety pin. Be sure that the loops remain twisted and that you have picked up every loop. Ravel enough of the undamaged original thread on each side of the hole to leave an end long enough to weave into the back. For stitches that are worked directly into the tops of the stitches of the row/round below and not over a chain, rip as far as the point at which the last loop of the last stitch extends out of the bottom of the stitch in the row/round above; place that loop on a safety pin.

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