MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (itch) Mac OS
Photos 3.0
Photo Agent & High CPU Utilization
Nov 12, 2019 Re: The Green Goblin project - Maximum Overdrive #3 Post by Convoy101 » 14 Nov 2019 02:13 The Kenworth W900A should be the most logical choice,it looks the most similar in appearance to a 4800,.Discussion of paid mods will gt you banned.,and the Peterbilt 389 modified is 1.08 gb is size so that`s a whole lot of bits your ram doesn't need. Sep 25, 2019 OverDrive made this decision in anticipation of Mac’s new OS, expected for release this fall, called Catalina. The macOS Catalina will require all apps to be 64-bit. The OverDrive for Mac app is 32-bit, which will make it incompatible with the upcoming macOS. When we decided to end support for OverDrive for Mac, we failed to appropriately. PJC From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) wn: overdrive n 1: the state of high or excessive activity or productivity or concentration; 'Troops are ready to go into overdrive as soon as the signal is given'; 'Melissa's brain was in overdrive' 2: a high gear used at high speeds to maintain the driving speed with less output power v 1: drive or work too. This is my final project for my Electronic Media class. If you imported a batch of photos or videos either manually on your MacBook Pro or via iCloud and see photoanalysisd, photolibraryd, and/or the Image/Video Conversion Service active within Activity Monitor, alongside the Photo Agent process; it's likely that is the reason the agent is in maximum overdrive.
The Photo Agent process you are seeing within the Activity monitor is the macOS photo sharing agent. It's primary responsibility is to manage and handle the iCloud Photo Library, My Photo Stream, iCloud Photo Sharing and Siri vocabulary sync activity for Photos. It also seems that Photo Agent is used in conjunction with other applications (including third-party applications built within Apple's MacOS development guidelines) that render supported media types.
Due to the nature and versatility of Photo Agent, it's hard to determine or investigate what exactly is causing the CPU utilization to reach a level to where your CPU cores (and most likely, other internal components) to become so hot, that the fans are constantly running. If you imported a batch of photos or videos either manually on your MacBook Pro or via iCloud and see photoanalysisd, photolibraryd, and/or the Image/Video Conversion Service active within Activity Monitor, alongside the Photo Agent process; it's likely that is the reason the agent is in maximum overdrive. Photo Agent has a set of instructions on how and when to run that is controlled by MacOS, you cannot simply kill the process and expect it remain in that state. It should be noted that are are variety of reasons to why Photo Agent may be running and utilizing the majority of your processing power. Photo analysis, lexical analysis, content analysis, search engine indexing, natural language processing, cache processing, database caching and hash functions are just a few things that could be occurring.
I've been researching Photos 3.0 to identify ways to increase processing times of key function. Throughout my research, I have discovered a common issue amongst Photos' users who are unable to achieve and/or maintain the recommended Internet connection bandwidth while the agent's process is in progress. Many of the great features that integrates Photos and iCloud are programmed to make use of an adaptive scheduling algorithm. However, some of the property default values for the agent is where I suspect the problem begins. I have a huge hunch, alongside a bit of data to at least validate that hunch, that at the very least - this is the main contributing factor to Photo Agent's high CPU utilization.
Photo Agent's High CPU Utilization Solution
There are quite a few solutions to your specific issue, but I will provide one, that is least likely to be configured incorrectly by accident, simple to revert back the change and has the least amount of impact to the intended functionality of Photos with iCloud capabilities. The solution, is to alter the task priority of the Photo Agent process while it's running. You can achieve this a few ways, but my recommendation would be to use the built-in MacOS maintenance command, renice:
Step 1: Identify Photo Agent's Process Identification Number
In this example, the Photo Agent's PID is 1679. The PID for Photo Agent on your Mac may be different and usually changes when the process is killed or exited.
Step 2: Review Photo Agent's Current Task Priority Using It's Process Identification Number
Run the process status command in the MacOS Utility - Terminal (Terminal Help) with the options display process information, including nice (NI), with the Photo Agent's PID
ps -fl -C PID
The command 'man ps' can be run in terminal for the Process Status manual.If the aspect ration of Terminal's GUI isn't wide enough, the output may be misaligned and a little difficult to match the columns with the column headers. Adjust the window size accordingly or count the columns to the row. Note: The default nice for all MacOS processes is usually 0.
Step 3: Change Photo Agent's Task Priority
Using renice, change the Photo Agent's priority by increasing it with an integer greater than 0
sudo renice -n INCREMENT -p PID
The command 'man renice' can be run in terminal for the renice manual.
Caution: Ensure that the nice value provided is a positive integer. Assigning negative nice values (below 0) to processes could potentially crash MacOS if critical system processes lose their priority.
Caution: The usage of sudo in this context will execute the command as root (also known as super user). Although harmless in this particular situation, using it with other commands that you are not familiar with could be potentially dangerous.
Step 4: Verify Photo Agent's New Task Priority (Repeat Step 2)
Verify Photo Agent's new priority by running the process status command in the MacOS Utility - Terminal with the options display process information, including nice (NI), with the Photo Agent's PID
ps -fl -C PID
This solution should take effect immediately. If Photo Agent's CPU utilization was high during the time of deprioritization you should see a drop in it's usage. How significant is dependent on how large the increment value was for prioritization when completing step 3, other processes that are running and other system-level prioritization for all processes.
Pro Tip: This solution can also be applied to the photoanalysisd and photolibraryd processes.
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Summary :
If you connect a drive formatted in Mac to a Windows PC, you’ll be prompted to format it before use. That is to say, you are not allowed to view anything saved on it before formatting. But the question is: if you click Format disk, your data will be ruined. This post from MiniTool will introduce several useful ways to help you with that; please read carefully.
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Can You Read Mac Drive on Windows
Many people doubt that whether they can read Mac drive on Windows. Some took action: they removed the drive from Mac and connected it to a Windows PC properly. But after connecting the Mac-formatted drive to Windows, a prompt window will pop up automatically on the screen, saying that they need to format the disk before use.
Don’t Format the Drive
You should click Cancel instead of Format disk when seeing this prompt. Why? That is simply because the formatting action will damage your data saved on that drive. Is there any other way to read a Mac-formatted drive on Windows? Sure, it is; some effective ways used by other users will be shown to you later on this page.
What Does Formatting a Hard Drive Do
Some users said they clicked on the Format disk button by mistake when seeing the prompt window mentioned above; they were wondering if there’s any way to help them recover a formatted hard drive. Luckily, the answer is yes.
What does disk formatting mean?
Formatting a hard disk/drive refers to delete all the file & folders save on a drive and set a certain file system for it. The formatting action is performed to prepare a data storage device (including hard disk drive, solid-state drive, USB flash drive, and SD card) for initial use. Two of the most obvious results of formatting a hard disk are: deleting data and changing file system.
Besides, there are also other benefits of disk formatting:
- Get more space on disk.
- Solve disk problems caused by soft failure.
- Improve disk/system performance greatly.
- And so on.
Do you know how to improve Windows 10 performance effectively?
It’s necessary to improve Windows 10 performance effectively since various problems will occur inevitably on a system that has been used for a long time.
Recover Formatted Hard Drive
The first and the most important thing to do after formatting a hard drive is to recover precious data from hard drive. MiniTool Power Data Recovery can be a good data recovery assistant: it’s clean, safe, and professional. Please free download the trial edition to experience this data recovery tool first before you decide to buy it; after that, double click on the setup program to finish installing the software on your Windows computer, on which the Mac hard drives are formatted.
Follow this guide to recover data from Mac formatted external hard drives:
- Click Start now at the end of installation to launch MiniTool Power Data Recovery. You can also open it by double clicking on the software icon.
- Wait for a few seconds until the disk loading process is finished automatically.
- Select Hard Disk Drive from the pane on your left hand side.
- Choose the formatted Mac drive from the pane on your right hand side.
- Double click on the target drive directly or click on the Scan button at the bottom right corner.
- The full scan will be started at once; more and more files and folders will be found during the scan. Please make sure the Mac hard drive is always connected to your computer.
- Browse the found items carefully to decide which files are needed and which are not; add a checkmark into the square box in from of all the files you want to recover. If you can’t confirm, go to view the content before recovery by clicking Preview.
- Click on the Save button in the lower right corner.
- Select a storage path in the pop-up window to store the files waiting to be recovered; please make sure it has enough free space left. (You shouldn’t select the original Mac-formatted drive as the storage location in order to avoid secondary damage.)
- Click on the OK button in the same window to confirm your selection.
- Then, wait until all the files saved on Mac hard drive have been recovered successfully to appointed place. A prompt window will show up to inform you of the recovery result.
MiniTool Power Data Recovery is also a great tool for recovering formatted SD card or broken/corrupted USB stick. The recovery steps are basically the same expect that you should select Removable Disk Drive from the left sidebar as mentioned in step 3.
After the data recovery process has been completed, you may transfer back the recovered files to the formatted disk as long as you can confirm that you’ve got back all the files you need.
What about Windows 10 read Mac drive? Please read the following sections.
Can a Mac external drive be read on a PC?
A lot of people are wondering whether they can read Mac drive on Windows 10 with freeware. In fact, there is both free and paid software to help people read Mac drive on PC easily, without formatting the disk. I’ll introduce some of the useful software you can use on Windows 10 to read files and folders from Mac-formatted drive.
Choice 1: HFSExplorer
HFSExplorer is completely free; it’s a basic application designed to help users read Mac-formatted hard disks and disk images. HFSExplorer gives support to various file systems: HFS (the Standard file system on Mac), HFS+ (the Extended file system on Mac OS), HFSX (the Extended Mac OS file system with case sensitive file names), etc.
What Does HFSExplorer Allow You to Do
- Browse volumes on Mac by using a graphical file system browser.
- Check the volume related information.
- Extract files you need (copy files to Windows hard disk free).
- Mount & read disk images like .dmg and .sparsebundle.
- Create disk images from the volume on Mac.
The partition schemes including Master Boot Record, GUID Partition Table, and Apple Partition Map are supported by HFSExplorer.
Attention!
You need to install Java first if you don’t have it on your PC since it’s required (Sun's Java SE runtime environment version 5.0 or greater in which OpenJDK works fine).
HFSExplorer: Launch error
No Java runtime environment found. HFSExplorer cannot function without Java.
Press “OK” to open up http://www.java.com where you can download a Java runtime environment for your system.
You should just click OK as prompted to download & install proper runtime environment when seeing the window above.
How to Use HFSExplorer to Read Mac Hard Drive on Windows
- Connect the Mac-formatted drive to your Windows PC.
- Run & use HFSExplorer as administrator.
- Select File from the menu bar.
- Choose Load file system from device from the submenu. You can also press Ctrl + L.
- Click Autodetect to load the drive.
- Choose the files & folders you want to view on Windows.
- Click Extract.
- Select a folder as the destination.
- Expand the folder to read files on Windows PC.
Attention:
- HFS/HFS+/HSFX partitions can all be detected by using HFSExplorer.
- You can also Select a device or Specify device name manually in step 5.
If the connected external hard drive is not showing up on PC, you can’t detect it in step 5. You must make it appear in Windows first.
Is there any other hard drive reader for Windows? Of course, yes; please move on.
Choice 2: Apple HFS+ Drivers
Another way to access HFS + files in Windows 10 for free is installing Apple HFS + drivers.
Steps to Read Mac Drives on PC with Apple HFS + Drivers
First, you should make sure you don’t have Paragon or MacDrive (the hard drive readers I will talk about later) on your Windows computer. If you do, please remove them now.
Second, you should download the correct Windows driver package to your local drive.
Third, you should configure your Windows as follow.
- Go to the default download path (Downloads folder) to extract the downloaded zip file.
- Find AppleHFS.sys and AppleMNT.sys files.
- Copy them by pressing Ctrl + C (you can also do it by right clicking & choosing Copy).
- Go to this path: C:WindowsSystem32drivers.
- Copy them by pressing Ctrl + V (you can also right click on any blank area & choose Paste).
- Navigate to the downloaded folder to find Add_AppleHFS.reg file.
- Open the .reg file to bring up a Registry Editor prompt window.
- Click on the Yes button and then click OK.
- Restart your computer to make changes take effect.
Fourth, you should connect the Mac-formatted drive to your PC -> open File Explorer (also called Windows Explorer) -> locate that drive under This PC -> access files you want.
Choice 3: HFS+ for Windows
Though the Paragon HFS+ for Windows is a paid hard driver reader, you’ll love it after using.
What Can Paragon HFS+ for Windows Do for You
- The speed is fast and the performance is stable.
- The Mac file systems are integrated into Windows File Explorer.
- It provides full read and write access to Mac drives formatted with HFS, HFS +, and HFSX (just like other drives in Windows).
- It allows Windows programs to read from or write to the Mac-formatted drive on Windows.
- There are additional features that worth the cost.
How Much Does It Cost
The Paragon HFS+ for Windows is sold on the official website for $19.95 with a single seat license; $49.95 with one license worked on 3 PCs.
If you don’t want to spend money in reading Mac drive on Windows, you should download the trial edition; it is free for use for 10 days. You can access, copy files from or to the Mac drive during this period; it’s enough.
Choice 4: MacDrive
If your Mac drive is formatted with APFS (Apple File System), you won’t be able to read Mac hard drive on Windows because there are no free apps designed for it. But you have many choices of paid applications to access & edit Mac drive files on Windows; MacDrive is a popular one designed by Mediafour.
Merits of MacDrive
- It is used to help users read data from and write data to Mac disks from Windows directly.
- You can read both APFS and HFS+ drives in File Explorer.
- It allows you to create and partition Mac disks on your Windows.
- A graphical interface is offered for Mac-formatted drives verification, format, and repair.
- It’s a trusted solution which can date back to 1996.
The only drawback of MacDrive seems to be the selling price is higher than some similar tools. You need to pay $49.99 for the Standard version or $69.99 for the Pro version.
Is it worth the price? Yes, if you have such needs; it also includes unique features like support for Mac-formatted RAID disks.
Choice 5: Paragon APFS for Windows
Paragon also designed an APFS for Windows app for reading APFS Mac drive on Windows; it is considered as one of the main competitors of MacDrive.
Features of Paragon APFS for Windows
- It provides read and write access to Mac drives formatted with APFS.
- It also allows you to access and edit compressed and cloned files (you can only access the encrypted volumes without making any changes).
- It gives support to auto-mounting at start-up; the partition tools of MacDrive are not included in this app.
The biggest disadvantage of Paragon APFS for Windows when compared to MacDrive is the HFS+ support. The biggest advantage of Paragon APFS for Windows over MacDrive is the price – it costs only $49.95 for one license worked on 3 PCs.
Of course, there are many other tools available for you to read Mac drives on Windows (10/8/7, etc.).
Bonus Tip
You can format your Mac hard drive to exFAT, which supports both Windows and Mac OS X. In this way, you can get full read and write access to exFAT drives on Windows without any additional third-party software.
The only thing you need to worry is that the data on Mac drives will be removed. So you need to turn to MiniTool Power Data Recovery as mentioned in part 1 to recover the files you need after formatting.
How to format a hard drive? Basically, there are three ways.
- Right click on the drive in File Explorer -> choose Format.
- OpenDisk Management -> right click on the target drive -> choose Format.
- Format Partition with MiniTool Partition Wizard – a professional disk manager.
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Though you can’t access a Mac-formatted drive on a Windows computer directly, there are useful ways and tools to help you read Mac drive on Windows easily. Please just follow the steps mentioned above and choose the tool depending on your needs.