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Hello,
i made a smart album to gather all photos that do not have a description.
and the smart album wilol not find any photos.
i tried the terminal code from this post
Re: Re: "Description is not empty" in Smart Album not working?
But it doems t seems to work.
i desperately need help, I am trying to organize my photos to export them all to specific folders, then make a new library and re import all the photos
The most recent system is macOS 10.14 Mojave; with El Capitan you are now three major system upgrades behind. For me, the problem with the smart album for empty descriptions seems to be fixed in Photos 4.0 on Mojave (https://www.apple.com/macos/mojave/). Perhaps your Mac cannot be upgraded to macOS 10.14, because it is not supported for this system? The hardware requirements are here: https://www.apple.com/macos/how-to-upgrade/#hardware-requirements
The most recent system is macOS 10.14 Mojave; with El Capitan you are now three major system upgrades behind. For me, the problem with the smart album for empty descriptions seems to be fixed in Photos 4.0 on Mojave (https://www.apple.com/macos/mojave/). Perhaps your Mac cannot be upgraded to macOS 10.14, because it is not supported for this system? The hardware requirements are here: https://www.apple.com/macos/how-to-upgrade/#hardware-requirements
I am trying to organize my photos to export them all to specific folders, then make a new library and re import all the photos
Why do you need your photos in specific folders before reimporting? Are typo planning to turn your Photos Library into a referenced library, with the photos stored and referenced outside the Photos Library? The descriptions you add to the photos will be stored inside your Photos Library and not be visible to you, when you look at the originals in the Finder. You could export the edited versions with the titles, descriptions, keywords included, but then you would lose image quality, if you do not export the unmodified originals.
I also want to export them so that I have a backup if I ever need to get a new laptop and it has to be a windows OS
I am also exporting my photos regularly to have a backup of the originals.I am using the subfolder format "Moment name" in the export dialog. This way the phots will be exported into subfolders, named like the Moment - with the date and the location. That suffices for me to find them quickly.
no, sorry, Photos is a part of MacOS X and not a separate application, that you can install independently.
Then try a work-around to find empty descriptions. You may want to search for "description does not include E" and description does not include A etc. Test for all vowels in a similar way. That should exclude all descriptions with any text at all.
What is the terminal command to fix the smart album description error?
i made a smart album to locate photos that do now have any descriptions, and the album is blank.
also are photos that end in .heic good to delete?
Which version of Photos are you using? For me the problem with the empty descriptions seems to be fixed in Photos 4.0 on Mojave. Are you using Photos 4.0 or an older version?
I’m putting them in specific folders, unless I can batch rename them.
I also want to export them so that I have a backup if I ever need to get a new laptop and it has to be a windows OS
I have El Capitan, I’m using the recent version. Always update my apps on my mac.
My MacBook Pro is a 2009.
Unfortunately I don’t have the spare cash to upgrade to a newer system. Is there anyway I can get the photos 4.0?
Photos app smart album not working
