pinocativo
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Mac OS X

Q: How to export albums

Hello,

I have grouped my photos in albums and I would like to export my photos keeping the albums structure.

 

When I try to export, the only options I am given, is to save them grouped into moments.

 

How can I not loose my albums?

 

Thanks for helping, Daniele

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014), Mac OS X (10.0.x)

Posted on Sep 14, 2016 12:02 PM

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Q: How to export albums

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  • by LarryHN,Helpful

    LarryHN LarryHN Sep 14, 2016 2:06 PM in response to pinocativo
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    Photos for Mac
    Sep 14, 2016 2:06 PM in response to pinocativo

    That is not a feature of Photos - you can export the photos in each album creating a folder with the album name

     

    Here is a user script to do that - Export Albums to Folders - Jacques Rioux's Script -

    And Old Toad has compiled it into an application if that works better for you - http://www.oldtoadstutorials.net/No.P01.html

     

    LN

  • by pinocativo,

    pinocativo pinocativo Sep 16, 2016 12:20 AM in response to LarryHN
    Level 1 (13 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 16, 2016 12:20 AM in response to LarryHN

    Thanks for replying.

     

    Have you tried any of these application, are they reliable? Would they work with latest OS X (Sierra)?

     

    Thanks for advising, daniele

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Sep 16, 2016 2:05 AM in response to pinocativo
    Level 10 (106,958 points)
    iCloud
    Sep 16, 2016 2:05 AM in response to pinocativo

    The scripts on the Photos User Tip section have been written by the users here to help with certain repeating tasks, that are poorly supported in Photos. They are no professional applications.  All scripts have been published as the source code, so you can read what they will do, befre running them. From the date a script has been published you can see, which is the last system version it has been tested with.

    As far as I can tell, Jacques Rioux's Script is very save. It will not modify your Photos Library, just read it and export images. The published version has been written for El Capitan; we cannot say anything about systems to come.

    But test any script you download first on a small test library and make a backup, before you download software from the internet.