I'm not sure what you are seeing.
- In what way are you unable to edit pictures?
- Do you see the thumbnails? How do you enter edit mode?
- What happens when you go into edit mode?
- What do you see?
- What happens when you attempt to change brightness, for instance?
- Do you get an error message?
Can you give us some more information?
- Do you have more than one Photos Library?
- Where does your Mac's Photos Library reside-- in the Pictures folder of your internal drive, or on an external drive? or on a network? on iCloud drive?
- It sounds like you are using iCloud Photos to synchronize your Libraries. Is that right? If so
- …Do you have “Optimize Storage” checked in Photos’ Settings
- …Do you see all your Mac’s Photos pictures at iCloud.com?
- …Have you checked to see if the Apple Account is really really the same on the Mac and at iCloud.com and the phone?
- …What is your storage at iCloud.com? At System Settings>[name]>iCloud>Storage, my Mac says 176 GB of 200 GB used. What does yours say?
- What is your storage on this Mac? At System Settings>General> Storage, my Mac says 745 GB of 1TBB used. What does yours say?
- Can you think of anything that changed that might affect your device?
- What does your Library say at the bottom of the Library view? Like this:
Any of these things can help us understand. Details are important.
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