How do I sort folder of jpegs by orientation?

I have tried cmd-F > with a search attribute of 'Orientation' but that didn't give me the expected options.

Try settiing "Orientation equals 1" to find the portraits and "Orientation equals 0" to find the landscapes.

With the folder open and active, set it to Icon view, then press Command-J - that will open View Options for that window. In the View Options window checkmark the item "Show Item Information". This will add the dimensions for the image underneath its name in the folder's window. You can use that info to determine its orientation.

I realize this works best for a modest amount of images; a folder with several thousand can be inconvenient to parse this way. On the other hand, if the extra info is considered to be part of the filename, it may make using a script easier (if x is larger than y, etc.).

Glad it worked!

Actually I had never heard of this before now.

What I did know is that the Terminal command mdls will return a list of a file's metadata attributes that are indexed by Spotlight. When I used this command on a portrait photo file, the list of metadata attributes included

kMDItemOrientation = 1

and when I used mdls on a landscape photo, that attribute was reported as

kMDItemOrientation = 0

http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop

AFAIK, Finder doesn't recognize orientation; that's a PS item. If I'm wrong, then ignore my last.

Good sleuthing. FWIW, metadata attributes are Spotlight items, unknown by the Finder.

Good work!

Thanks, Don and Baltwo! 🙂