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My iCloud is full. Using Mojave with Photos 4.0.
Also, I see before upgrading from Mojave, I need to convert all videos to work with newer 64 bit based OS.
Would be great if I could easily choose the largest videos in my Library to move them out of Photos to free up space on iCloud.
Wondering if Big Sur Photos 6.0 has sorting capabilities that 4/0 doesn't.
If you drag from photos this will take a very long time, because all the videos are being re-encoded for the export. You will also (most likely) get lower quality videos because of this re-encode.
It will go very very much quicker if you select the videos, then choose "export unmodified originals" from the file menu. This will then only need to copy the video files from the library to the export location without re-encoding. Plus you get an exact copy of the file as it was when you imported it without loss of quality.
If you drag from photos this will take a very long time, because all the videos are being re-encoded for the export. You will also (most likely) get lower quality videos because of this re-encode.
It will go very very much quicker if you select the videos, then choose "export unmodified originals" from the file menu. This will then only need to copy the video files from the library to the export location without re-encoding. Plus you get an exact copy of the file as it was when you imported it without loss of quality.
For now, I'm using this technique posted by wgroleau on https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/402327/how-do-i-filter-videos-by-size-to-identify-the-largest-in-photos-app-on-osx
Here's another way:
plug in an external disk or storage.
Create a folder on it.
Open Photos and select all the videos.
Drag them to the new folder.
Wait a LONG time for the export to complete.
Sort the new folder by size.
OR, if you're happy with keeping them there, go back to Photos and delete them. That will save more space than is in the new folder, because Photos creates a lot of supporting files for its contents. (Actually the space is not reclaimed until you also clear out the "recently deleted" collection.)
If you don't get a notification when the export completes, you can compare the number of items selected in Photos to the number of items in the new folder.
Mcfugu: You can monitor the status of the transfer by looking at the circle at the top left of the Photos window that shows the status of task completion. Clicking it gives further details.
Thanks Tony! Super helpful.
(Will start over.)
Where does Photos for Mac store videos
