Hi Ronni, No amount of clicking will make the photos appear. The backup drive is via usb
Cheers Rosemary Rosemary Spark PO Box 781 South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia Phone: + 61 8 94336609 Mobile: 0414268043 arkaysp...@gmail.com On 20 July 2015 at 07:00, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Hello Rosemary, > > Also, depending on the speed of reading & writing of your husband's MBP > from the external drive that holds the iPhoto Library being imported & > upgraded to Photos. > It can take quite some time for the library to fully load for the first > time. > A lot of activity is going on - as well as Spotlight reindexing in the > background. > > If you click on any of the blank images do they open and display the photo? > It might just need more time to populate all the images. > > Is your husband's external drive a thunderbolt connection? > > Cheers, > Ronni > > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > > On 19 Jul 2015, at 2:55 pm, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hello Rosemary, > > The thumbnails are damaged and Photos doesn't have a specific first aid > procedure to rebuild thumbnails like iPhoto does. > > > A long shot would be to Boot into the Recovery volume (boot with the > Command + R keys held down), select Disk Utility and "Repair permissions" > and "Repair Disk". > Reboot normally and try Photos again. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > *13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)* > 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz > 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM > 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage > > OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 > > On 19 Jul 2015, at 2:05 pm, Rosemary Spark <arkaysp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My husband's computer and mine are very similar > Both running Yosemite 10.10.4 > Both Macbook Pro 2012. His is 13in mine 15in. > We both had an iphoto library on separate external hard drives. > With each opened I opened Photos and pointed to the iphoto library on the > external drive > Both seemed to run the same way. > He now has iPhoto migrated, and Photos folder. > Mine is fine, all photos present and correct > He now has iPhoto migrated, and Photos folder. > His Photos has dates and grey boxes, lots and lots of grey boxes! For both > photos and thumbnails. > The only ones he can see is the Photostream. > No sign of either thumbnails or photos. > > I did a re-build to no effect. > > Any suggestions? > > Rosemary Spark > PO Box 781 > South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia > Phone: + 61 8 94336609 > Mobile: 0414268043 > arkaysp...@gmail.com > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - < > http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >
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