It is mainly aimed at fresh Mac owners who have just ventured into the world of Mac, and/or people who want to mirror their iPhoto database into a traditional PC style folder structure for backing up/transferring purposes.
This is a guide on how to export all your photos from iPhoto, whilst keeping all photos sorted like in the Events structure within iPhoto.
This is done via a script which creates folders named as the ‘Event’ which then sorts the relevant photo’s into the Event folder that it belongs to.
The Script can be found here:-
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20081108132735425
Commands in Terminal:-
cd desktop = places you in the desktop directory.
ls -l = lists file permissions [x = executable]
chmod a x iphoto_export_script.sh = makes executable
./iphoto_export_script.sh = executes the script.
It is mainly aimed at fresh Mac owners who have just ventured into the world of Mac, and/or people who want to mirror their iPhoto database into a traditional PC style folder structure for backing up/transferring purposes.
This is a guide on how to export all your photos from iPhoto, whilst keeping all photos sorted like in the Events structure within iPhoto.
This is done via a script which creates folders named as the ‘Event’ which then sorts the relevant photo’s into the Event folder that it belongs to.
The Script can be found here:-
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20081108132735425
Commands in Terminal:-
cd desktop = places you in the desktop directory.
ls -l = lists file permissions [x = executable]
chmod a x iphoto_export_script.sh = makes executable
./iphoto_export_script.sh = executes the script.
