Can I sort photos or videos by size in Mac OS X Photos?

I guess no one will get a positive answer from apple. The only thing is to wait until we get a next bad surprise from them.

Why they should ask the quantity of photos or videos storing in photos app when sending a feedback? They never seemed serious to me, really.

No, you can only sort the photos and videos by the title or by the capture time.

Sorting by size would be useful. but is not supported.

Consider to send feedback with a feature request to Apple. The feedback form is here: Apple - Photos - Feedback

How do you sort videos by capture time?

Create an album with the videos, for example a smart album with the constraint "Photo is movie"

Then ctrl-click the album/smart album and select "Keep sorted by ".

The video will not have a "Capture time" tag, but Photos will use the file modified tag for the date. And you can use the command "Image > Adjust Date and time" to adjust the date, if the file dates are wrong.

You can use a third party app (paid) called Powerphotos https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/powerphotos/ which will allow you to sort your photos by size, and even shows total filesizes on a album or smart album basis - I've found it very useful e.g. finding large movies from 2015 I want to remove out of my icloud photos library to backup.

No, but you can sort by size using the demo version of PowerPhotos to view the library:

The size as shown in the list/column view:

or in icon mode:

Filed an enhancement request

Krishen wrote:

Filed an enhancement reqest

That's good. The more, the merrier! 🙂