

The Photos library is 54,100 photos and is 222GB in size (all photos since 2008 and my wife takes a lot of pictures. Then I had the 1TB hard drive replaced with a 250GB SSD drive with a clean install of OSX. I backed up everything and moved Photos and iTunes libraries to an external drive. After some investigation, was informed the 1TB hard drive was corrupted/damaged. It was also failing to import a lot of photos, unless I batched the imports into smaller chunks - bottom line, it was acting very suspiciously.

was taking "hours" to download photos from iPhone to Mac.

I have conducted NUMEROUS web searches and seem to get 100 different answers/recommendations.Ī bit of background - have a 2011 iMac and was experiencing extreme sluggishness when Photos open e.g. Hoping someone in the community can help me out.
