Photos not showing up anymore in a specific smart album that should show all photos that are not in any album

Wonderful, thank you very much for your fast reply.

Hey, Léoni, I took a script from you and adapted it. I am not really sure if it works since I am not used to Apple Script language.

I think the script could solve the problem instantly: My Goal with the script:

1. Get all photos that are currently NOT in any album (I tried with another script => the photos not showing in the smart album are detected with a script)
2. Put all these photos in an new album

=> When I have this, I can export all these photos from that album, delete the originals and re-import and the problem should be solved.

What do you think?

I attached the script I adapted from you - not sure if it works at the moment, but if you would have time, it would be nice if you could have a look at it and give me some feedback.

Best Regards,

Dave

Hey there. That is good to know - than something is definitely wrong here - at least for my computer :-)

I also have Catalina 10.15.5 && 1TB SSD.

I wouldn't know what is going on - it just seems to be stuck (the script). So I select all photos in the main photos library and then I run the script. I will try once more and if that does not succeed in the first 5-10 minutes, I will try the other solution from Léoni!

It is this script: Script: Find Photos not in Any Album, for… - Apple Community right?

Best Regards,

Dave

First part of script:

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 photosNotInAnyAlbumName to "photosNotInAnyAlbum" -- the album to collect all photos not in any album


tell application "Photos"
	activate
	-- Ensure that the albums do exist
	try
		set imageSel to (get selection)
	on error errTexttwo number errNumtwo
		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 photosNotInAnyAlbumName) then
			make new album named photosNotInAnyAlbumName
		end if
		set theAlbumWithPhotosNotInAnyAlbum to container photosNotInAnyAlbumName
		
		if not (exists container "SkippedPhotos") then
			make new album named "SkippedPhotos"
		end if
		set theSkippedAlbum to container "SkippedPhotos"
		
		
	on error errTexttwo number errNumtwo
		display dialog "Cannot open albums: " & errNumtwo & return & errTexttwo
	end try
	
	
	-- process the selected photos from the All Photos album
	
	set photosNotInAnyAlbum to {} -- the list of small photos	
	

• -- check, if the album o

Version: 10.15.5 (19F96) - so just updated it today. However, the bug is still there.

My Apps are also Up-To-Date.

Is there a script that might identify the missing photos?

I will try to create a smart album in another way now...

Second part of the script: - Sorry was not possible in any other way... :-(

if imageSel is {} then
		error "Please select some images."
	else
		repeat with im in imageSel
			try
				tell im --get the file size
					set pictureId to its id
					set names to name of (albums whose id of media items contains pictureId)
				end tell
			on error errText number errNum
				display dialog "Error: " & errNum & return & errText & "Trying again"
				try
					delay 2
					tell im
						set pictureId to its id
						set names to name of (albums whose id of media items contains pictureId)
					end tell
				on error errTexttwo number errNumtwo
					display dialog "Skipping image due to repeated error: " & errNumtwo & return & errTexttwo
				end try
			end try
			set inNoAlbum to (names is missing value)
			if inNoAlbum then
				set photosNotInAnyAlbum to {im} & photosNotInAnyAlbum
			end if
		end repeat
		add photosNotInAnyAlbum to theAlbumWithPhotosNotInAnyAlbum
		return "Photos not in any album: " & (length of photosNotInAnyAlbum)
	end if
end tell

Thank you very much for your response.

Hmm that is unfortunate, that such things are not available anymore.

So my script would be 'correct', but the specific line 'set names to name of (albums whose id of media items contains pictureId)' is not valid anymore?

And rewriting it quickly is not possible as much as I understand?

I mean I don't care if it takes 10 days until the process is finished --- in the end without a script I will have no chance to find out which photos are not in any album at the moment.

Or do you have any other suggestions?

Best Regards,

Dave

Ah and BTW: I tried out the script from Jacques Rioux's => It works for me, that it can tell me in which albums a photo is (given that I put it in a toplevel album).

That is why I don't understand, why my script shouldn't work?

I mean it is exactly the same syntax: set names to name of (albums whose id of media items contains pictureId) - or what am I missing?

Hei there,

thank you very much. I am running the script - already since 6 hours - I don't know if this is working or not --- in my test photo library it worked for 5 photos.

Do you have any idea how long it could take for 10'000 photos and about 60 albums?

My albums folder is structured like the following (with folders and albums - but just 1 level deep)

Albums

2010 (folder)

album 1

album 2

2011 (folder)

album 1

etc.

thank you very much for your help!

Best Regards,

Dave