In finder I am trying to edit my photo files.
I need to separate RAW, RW2, NEF and any other Raw files from jpg.
I have tried arrange by kind, size and type but none did separate RAW from jpg.
How can i do this with my Mac?
Doug
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)
Open Finder. Select View and set as List.
One of the columns will be "Kind". Click on Kind and the files will be sorted by extension.
Open Finder. Select View and set as List.
One of the columns will be "Kind". Click on Kind and the files will be sorted by extension.
Press Command + F to filter by Kind.
Use the List view then select the Kind column to sort by file type.
Enjoy.
douglasfromsouthport wrote:
In finder I am trying to edit my photo files.
I need to separate RAW, RW2, NEF and any other Raw files from jpg.
I have tried arrange by kind, size and type but none did separate RAW from jpg.
How can i do this with my Mac?
Doug
Are those file extensions like jpg/gif/png/tiff?
Make sure you have Arrange By set to None, and sort by set to Kind.
The selection of "kind" only separates photos from movies and other files like pdf, pages etc.
So photos of any file type are not separated.
The size option gets nearer to doing the job but the size options cause an overlap. e.g. from 10kb to 1mb includes only jpg. and the next option, from 1mb to 100mb includes larger jpg and all RAW files.
In windows files could be separated by type (extension), this was useful. But I am never going back to W!
Is there an Automator method to do this?
RAW files in my photos include RW2, NEF and RAW. These are uncompressed files produced by the camera, giving the purest image with no loss due to compression.
The other files jpg, gif, png and tiff of which I use jpg and tiff are compressed files they are usually smaller than RAW.
The view options of 'kind' 'size' or any other do not allow sorting of file type, see reply to KimUserName.
Doug
Thanks to chroot and Eau Rouge your answers helped to resolve my problem. I was worried that I had to laboriously go through every folder to sort the files manually.
That would have taken a very long time!!!! Only 61,550 files and a quarter are raw.
Thanks again this Apple community is great.
Doug
I want to sort file types in finder
