Sharing (Exporting) and keeping folder structure - possible?
I have been amassing a collection of family pictures going back into the 19th century. They are stored in iPhoto in folders by year (e.g. 1967 is a separate folder). I would like to export this as files but keep the folder structure so that relatives can just look in the 19xx folder for all the pictures from that year. Is there any way to export pictures and maintain the file structure used in iPhoto? If this doesn't work exporting original format photos is there any way to export from iPhoto and have it reflect that structure (so relatives on Mac or Windows machines can view/use them)?
TIA
Arthur,
I have not come across any applescript and I did just search again.
What I did come across was a program called iPhoto Album Extractor. It is really meant to extract albums into a folder from a damaged iPhoto Library that cannot be opened.
i downloaded it and tried it out to see if it would be a faster way to get your year albums exported. It is really quite fast.
Download the program and open it.
Choose the path by navigating to the iPhoto Library folder and choosing it.
Your albums will quickly be displayed in the left column.
Make a new folder on your desktop and label it albums.
Now highlight the album in the left column and choose "extract"
In the next window choose the folder on the desktop and then hit open.
The images in the album will be extracted/copied into a folder with the name of the album into that folder on the desktop. It is really quite fast. I did this while iPhoto was closed.
iPhoto Album Extractor
Lori
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