I know something about this issue was posted earlier but I can’t find it so I’m posting a similar issue/question. I received and setup my new 14" MBP M1 Max yesterday. And as expected Photo started processing my photo library. My library in not that large. I have 9,889 photos and 236 short videos. Photos has been processing my photo library since last night–nearly 24 hours. It seems stuck as shown below. I’ve restarted the MBP several times but this is taking a long time. Is this normal for a modest sized library?
I see that the People link takes longer to scan. And they are machine-specific, so even though my older Mac had scanned all the faces, the new Mac has to start over. I guess it’s a privacy feature but can’t they encrypt the faces data and copied over via iCloud?