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Hi. Is there a way to select some files (Library>Photos and then using the Filters, for example) and then determine their combined size in GB? Simple as that. I'm reading and looking for functions with no success. Any help appreciated. Thanks.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
If you add the rule Aperture Metadata there is a filter for file size but that refers to the original.
Versions in Aperture have no size until they are exported and then the export parameters will determine the final file size.
But there is no way to do the addition in Aperture without writing a script
If you add the rule Aperture Metadata there is a filter for file size but that refers to the original.
Versions in Aperture have no size until they are exported and then the export parameters will determine the final file size.
But there is no way to do the addition in Aperture without writing a script
Thanks for the reply but this is the opposite thing - this is a tip for selecting some photos based on the file size using filters.
The task I would like to know (and don't know how) is, after I select some files (say I click 3 photos while pressing Command) I can check the combined file size (the sum of photo1 size, photo2 size and photo3 size). For example, each photo has 5 MB, I click those 3 photos while pressing Command (selecting them), I would like Aperture to show me somewhere 15 MB. Is that a way to do that?
(Obviously this is a simple example, I intend to do that with lots of photos and videos, not 2 or 3)
Thanks
Frank may have buried the lede:
But there is no way to do the addition in Aperture without writing a script
but he didn't put it out of sight.
Sorry.
Do note -- as Frank also mentions -- that you are asking for a number that doesn't exist. You don't select files in Aperture -- you select Images. Each Image is rendered on-the-fly from two files: the Original, and the Version (it's a text file of instructions). The Images have no knowable file size, because (to the user) they are not files. The Originals have a file size, and exported Images -- export means, "Make me a file using these settings from this Image -- have a file size. You may want to know the total storage requirements of the Originals of the Images you've selected in Aperture. There is no way to do that (afaik) without ... writing a script.
Aperture is what it is. We users can only report on that.
Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger - spelling and formatting.
OK thanks to both of you. I just wanted to check the numbers on my cloud online backup solution reports.
Kirby
Frank may have buried the lede:
but he didn't put it out of sight.
love it, especially the spelling of lede. So are you an old pressman?
Ha! No, sorry, I'm not -- but I'm glad you responded, as it gives me the opportunity to apologize for getting the points on this one. I know it's terribly minor -- I was just trying to get the OP to recognize that you had fully answered his/her Q.
Are you an old pressman?
lede
Everytime I open one of your post, I have to open the dictionary as well. You are really good for expanding my vocabulary. 😀
léonie wrote:
... to open the dictionary as well. You are really good for expanding my vocabulary. 😀
That's why Steve Jobs gave us all three fingers!
😁 .
(Three-finger tap opens pane showing word in dictionary, thesaurus, and Wikipedia {all clickable links}. Three-finger tap on file in Finder opens/closes Quick Look. I use this scores* of times a day.)
(* Definition 2 in the OS X built-in dictionary.)
Btw -- I have, somewhere, my pocket Duden with every word I ever looked up highlighted.
Is there a way to know selected files size (in GB) in Aperture?
