Script: How to find videos and photos in your Photos Library larger or smaller than a given file size
The Photos.app does not allow us to sort albums by the file size of the items ins an album. But an AppleScript can read the file size of a media item in Photos and create albums based on the file size.
if you want to find files, that are too large or to small among a set of media items in Photos, select the videos or photos you want to check for their size and run the script below.
It will ask for a file size threshold - you could enter 512 kB, for example, then run the script. It will create two albums, one with the items smaller or equal than 512kB, one with the items larger than 512kB. Now you can select easily the items that are too small or too large in one of the albums.
-- ✄ ✄ -- snip -- copy from here
(* How to use this script:
This script will split the selection into two albums -
- one album with pictures or videos larger than the given file size threshold
- one album with pictures or videos smaller than the given file size threshold
Open this script in Script Editor. Launch Photos.
Select the photos and videos you want to distribute between the albums.
When all all photo are selected, press the "Run" button in Script Editor.
Author: léonie
*)
--the file size threshold in kB
set defaultFileSizeThreshold to 10240 -- 10 MB, change this to the file size threshold you want for a photo to be counted as small
set dialogResult to display dialog ¬
"Enter the file size threshold for small photos or videos in kB : " buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} ¬
default answer (defaultFileSizeThreshold as text)
set FileSizeThresholdkB to (text returned of dialogResult) as integer-- file size in kB
set FileSizeThreshold to FileSizeThresholdkB * 1024 -- file size in Byte
set smallAlbumName to "smallerThan" & FileSizeThresholdkB-- the album to collect the small photos
set largeAlbumName to "largerThan" & FileSizeThresholdkB-- the album to collect the larger photos
tell application "Photos"
activate
-- Ensure that the albums do exist
try
set imageSel to (get selection)
on error errTexttwonumbererrNumtwo
display dialog "Cannot get the selection: " & errNumtwo & return & errTexttwo
end try
-- return the size of the first item of imageSel
try
if not (exists container smallAlbumName) then
makenewalbumnamedsmallAlbumName
end if
set theSmallAlbum to containersmallAlbumName
if not (exists container largeAlbumName) then
makenewalbumnamedlargeAlbumName
end if
set theLargeAlbum to containerlargeAlbumName
if not (exists container "SkippedPhotos") then
make new album named "SkippedPhotos"
end if
set theSkippedAlbum to container "SkippedPhotos"
on error errTexttwonumbererrNumtwo
display dialog "Cannot open albums: " & errNumtwo & return & errTexttwo
end try
-- process the selected photos from the All Photos album
set smallPhotos to {} -- the list of small photos
set largePhotos to {} -- the list of larger photos
set skippedPhotos to {} -- the list of skipped photos
-- check, if the album or the selected photos do contain images
if imageSel is {} then
error "Please select some images."
else
repeat with im in imageSel
try
tell im--get the file size
set s to its size
end tell
on error errText number errNum
display dialog "Error: " & errNum & return & errText & "Trying again"
try
delay 2
tell im
set s to its size
end tell
on error errTexttwonumbererrNumtwo
display dialog "Skipping image due to repeated error: " & errNumtwo & return & errTexttwo
end try
end try
set noSize to (s is missing value)
if noSize then
set skippedPhotos to {im} & skippedPhotos
else
if (s ≤ FileSizeThreshold) then
set smallPhotos to {im} & smallPhotos
else
set largePhotos to {im} & largePhotos
end if
end if
end repeat
addsmallPhotostotheSmallAlbum
addlargePhotostotheLargeAlbum
addskippedPhotostotheSkippedAlbum
return "small photos: " & (length of smallPhotos) & ", larger photos : " & (length of largePhotos) & ", skipped: " & (length of skippedPhotos)
end if
end tell
This user tip was generated from the following discussion: How do I sort videos by length of time or by file size?
