Photos metadata edit time window less than 2sec
What came before:
I have a 2021 M1 MBP 13". When I upgraded to Ventura I started having crashes. Re-installing the OS didn't help, even a nuke'n pave didn't. BTW, I never automatically install from backup after a clean install, I let the OS download everything from iCloud, App Store provides the apps and any needed local files I copy manually from my TM-backup.
Last Friday my machine became very sluggish and the crashes increased. I decided to re-install the OS. That didn't work, the process stalled. So I booted into recovery mode and had Disk Utility wipe my drive. It informed me that the entire drive would be erased, including the recovery partition. I did that and installed Ventura on the blank internal drive. Reconstruction of my account is almost finished by now, only Apple Mail is still downloading the last batches.
So far I have not had any crashes, so that is hopeful. But a weird problem in Photos has emerged.
I collect a lot of photos from the internet for use in lectures, mostly astronomy. When I add a new photo I make sure to give it a meaningful name and add to the metadata the description, credits and the URL it came from. This was not a problem before the latest clean install, but now it has become nigh impossible because the fields "Add a Title" and "Add a Caption" can only be edited for about 1.5sec before they close. So Typing in anything elaborate doesn't work. A quick copy-paste will work once, but not a second time. The work-around for now is to Collect the text for the caption in a text editor and copy-paste it in one go into Photos.
Somewhere, somehow there seems to be a setting that governs this. But it's only in Photos, no other app has this problem.
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Update: As I was finishing writing this up, I checked my steps in Photos again and suddenly the problem went away; the time window for editing is now a comfortable several minutes. I'm posting this anyway, maybe someone out there has seen the same problem.........
I have a 2021 M1 MBP 13". When I upgraded to Ventura I started having crashes. Re-installing the OS didn't help, even a nuke'n pave didn't. BTW, I never automatically install from backup after a clean install, I let the OS download everything from iCloud, App Store provides the apps and any needed local files I copy manually from my TM-backup.
Last Friday my machine became very sluggish and the crashes increased. I decided to re-install the OS. That didn't work, the process stalled. So I booted into recovery mode and had Disk Utility wipe my drive. It informed me that the entire drive would be erased, including the recovery partition. I did that and installed Ventura on the blank internal drive. Reconstruction of my account is almost finished by now, only Apple Mail is still downloading the last batches.
So far I have not had any crashes, so that is hopeful. But a weird problem in Photos has emerged.
I collect a lot of photos from the internet for use in lectures, mostly astronomy. When I add a new photo I make sure to give it a meaningful name and add to the metadata the description, credits and the URL it came from. This was not a problem before the latest clean install, but now it has become nigh impossible because the fields "Add a Title" and "Add a Caption" can only be edited for about 1.5sec before they close. So Typing in anything elaborate doesn't work. A quick copy-paste will work once, but not a second time. The work-around for now is to Collect the text for the caption in a text editor and copy-paste it in one go into Photos.
Somewhere, somehow there seems to be a setting that governs this. But it's only in Photos, no other app has this problem.
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Update: As I was finishing writing this up, I checked my steps in Photos again and suddenly the problem went away; the time window for editing is now a comfortable several minutes. I'm posting this anyway, maybe someone out there has seen the same problem.........