Photos App - how do you sort by file type

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Photos App - how do you sort by file type

Surely there HAS to be a way to sort the files that are imported in to the Photos program by file type? My wife takes both videos and photos on her iphone and the videos take up a lot of space. I use a video merge program to put them all into one video by month and upload to vimeo -- I just did an import and 2800 files came into the Photos program. How do I sort the last import by file type, then manually select the video files and export them out of Photos and delete them to reduce space?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7), null

Posted on Apr 2, 2017 2:24 PM

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léonie

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Apr 3, 2017 11:34 AM in response to Jason1001

You cannot sort by file type in Photos, only search by file type.

But if you download the free trial of PowerPhotos you can view any Photos Library in list view and sort the items by man criteria by clicking the headers of the columns in list view, for example by file kind. You select the columns to be displayed in the View menu: