I upgraded to Sequoia 15.2 from 15.1 (which worked just fine) and immediately my Photos got all messed up. The files are all scattered by date into "favorites" (which I have no use for). And Finder won't "find" anything by file name.
Is this something I am not understanding about the update or is there something wrong with the update? I can't be the only one having a problem with this update.
You may have to go through the settings in the Photos app to be able to manage your groupings. Not being able to find files probably indicates the need to reindex Spotlight. Try searching by bringing up Spotlight (vs. using the search field in the Finder window). The default trigger is Option-Space and enter the file name in the field. If you recently updated macOS, you might have to wait a while for the Spotlight indexing to finish. See if a progress bar appears to indicate that. Otherwise, you can use Terminal to trigger reindexing. Launch Terminal.app (inside the Utilities folder inside Applications). At the prompt, enter this code:
sudo mdutil -i on /
and press
return. Enter your admin password and press
return again. This will start the process. Give it several minutes to take effect. There are other basic housekeeping chores that you might want to look into, like turning on TRIM on your SSD drives (imperative); resetting bluetooth; or clearing fonts caches. You can also check for software updates and download them from Terminal.
It was a good decision to upgrade from 15.1.x to 15.2, but problems remain. I’m testing 15.3 now and some problems seem to have been fixed from 15.2, so be patient.
