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Rigido

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Apr 1, 2017
22
4
Rome, Italy
Hi,
I wrote a small command to "sync" the Photos.app Masters folder with a "normally" accessible folder (Pictures/iPhone), something like:
Code:
alias Synciphone='find ~/Pictures/Photos\ Library.photoslibrary/Masters -type f -ls -exec cp -pn {} ~/Pictures/iPhone/ \;'
I'm using Catalina PB build 19A512f and today I found there is no more a Masters folder but an almost empty Masters.legacy one.
I saw there is an "originals" folder but files are renamed like iTunes library used to do.

Can someone please help me find "masters" files or help me writing a procedure to query Photos database and copy+rename original files?
 
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ricosuave

macrumors 6502
Mar 27, 2007
387
14
In front of my mac
Hi,
I wrote a small command to "sync" the Photos.app Masters folder with a "normally" accessible folder (Pictures/iPhone), something like:
Code:
alias Synciphone='find ~/Pictures/Photos\ Library.photoslibrary/Masters -type f -ls -exec cp -pn {} ~/Pictures/iPhone/ \;'
I'm using Catalina PB build 19A512f and today I found there is no more a Masters folder but an almost empty Masters.legacy one.
I saw there is an "originals" folder but files are renamed like iTunes library used to do.

Can someone please help me find "masters" files or help me writing a procedure to query Photos database and copy+rename original files?


The only solution I've found is to run a virtual machine or a spare Mac running Mojave or earlier OS. Use that library to backup using the original names. Even with Catalina, exporting "Originals" changes .JPG to .jpeg
 
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