Stories like these aren’t rare, which is why my colleague Jeremy wrote earlier this year that “ iCloud Photo Library still isn’t worth the hassles,” despite Apple lowering iCloud storage costs.
And he didn’t have local copies backed up, a mistake he for obvious reasons regretted. What’s worse is he was relying on the app’s Optimize Mac Storage setting to fit the library on his local storage and trusting iCloud not to screw things up along the way.
Over the weekend a good friend of mine shared a screenshot of a really scary error message from Photos for Mac. Every photo and video taken over the last two weeks failed to open, saying instead that ‘An error occurred while downloading a larger version of this video for editing.’ The solution? ‘Please try again later.’ and press OK.
