Although we’ve moved our entire photo library to Immich, I still maintain a local Apple Photos library just in case Immich doesn’t work out.
It’s basically just a place to store backups now.
But I tried opening it last night to manually backup some photos and the app won’t open my library file. I’ve tried repairing it and moving it to the boot drive, but still no luck.
I guess I’ll have to create a new library and import the originals from the old one. :\
Mike Rockwell
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2026-07-02 13:06:09 UTC
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