Re: Can anyone help with photos?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Can anyone help with photos?
Date	2017-03-03 15:04 +0000
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David B. <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> wrote:
> 
> Thank you so much for this very helpful information, 'Roger'.
> 
> Sadly, nothing worked. :-(

Hmm... I haven't ever seen that behavior. 

> So, falling back on past experience (limited!) I ran First Aid from the 
> Disk Utility 

Did it say that it needed to be repaired when you ran it?

> and then shut down my machine. After making a coffee, I 
> restarted my iMac and booted into Safe Mode. I tried moving Photos as 
> you described ...... and I COULD do it! :-D
> 
> When I restarted my computer I found that I could STILL drag and drop my 
> photos from my 'Pictures' folder (is it called a folder on a Mac???)
> 
> I've no idea at all what might have been amiss.
> 
> Anyway, job done. Thank you for your help.

Very interesting. It's possible Photos or Finder was in a bad state that
restarting was able to reset. Probably just a glitch! At any rate, I'm glad
you got things working again. : )

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