macOS Photos.app crashes when first opening from SMB share

[explosionhole]

I have a 300GB Photos library. I have until now used this with locally-attached USB drives, with an APFS formatted partition.

 

I do not like the inconvenience of connecting, mounting and being tethered to this physical device. I would also prefer to centralise this on my Unraid instance, that can also be included in my offsite backup config.

 

However, it crashes every time.

 

The source bundle has been successfully copied to Unraid, via SSH / SFTP using `root` user, and then correcting the filesystem permissions.

 

After this, holding down Option key while starting the app allows me to select which Photos library I would like to open. I choose the new copy on the SMB share. It takes a long time, but errors.

 

I have now twice used Control + Option, which enables a repair of the library. This still crashes.

 

Can I ask for any help please?

 

I have attached the latest crash log. It doesn't mean much to me, and I cannot see any obvious errors...

 

 

Unraid Open SMB Photos library.txt

[ghost82]

There are lots, really lots of reports of mac os ventura having issues with smb shares; it's not smb, it's not linux, it's mac os ventura that needs polishing..I think there's nothing to do here, only waiting for apple to fix it, if it will fix it. Just report/send to apple that report.

[explosionhole]

oh no - this is terrible news! and I fear for any promptness in getting this resolved in acceptable timeframes, if ever!

 

what alternatives are there with Unraid? Are any of the native photo library apps any good? with Mac compatability?

 

Otherwise is the recommendation to keep using local disks?

[explosionhole]

Spent an hour on the phone with Apple Support. Ended up talking this through with a "senior engineer" from a Photos.app specialist.

 

Apple do not support network-attached storage for the Photos app. I could submit this as a new feature request.

 

So I need to ask among the Unraid community, if people have this setup and similar size library sizes? (c.300GB)

 

Or do Mac users prefer to keep Photos with "local" storage (USB or internal)?

 

Edited February 10, 2023 by explosionhole

[ghost82]

Best option is to keep it local.

[ghost82]

15 hours ago, explosionhole said:

I could submit this as a new feature request

😆😆😆

Sorry for this, but this is funny if said by a senior engineer..a feature request to have a library on a network storage...it doesn't seem too strange to store a several gb library on a network storage share..and apple should be one of the top? 👎

There was a time apple broke samba itself, nothing new for me in reading this

But ehi, every year we have new emoticons! 🤐

Edited February 11, 2023 by ghost82