> On 31 Jul 2016, at 2:04 PM, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > > For some reason, unknown to me I have imported many Photos without “Copy > items to Photos library” set on. > Those photos appear as thumbnails and enlarge on screen but I can not export > them because the originals are missing and in many cases unretrievable. From > the Package contents I find a litany of files probably contains the pictures. > How can I at least “rebuild” to the good onscreen enlargements?
Hi Severin, I thought we sorted this problem on 10 May 2016 Subject: PHOTO problem. When you had imported some photos in ‘Referenced Mode’ - (when ‘Copy Items to the Photos Library’ preference was unchecked.) I gave instructions how to find all the referenced photos using a Smart Album. You can find all referenced photos using a Smart Album (File menu -> New Smart Album - criteria photo is referenced)… which I though you did? The smart album does not search the disk at all nor does it locate anything - it tells you what photos in the Photos library are referenced rather than having been copied to the library. Once the Smart Album shows all the photos that are ‘Referenced’, there are a couple of options you can try to reveal the original file. Option 1: Use the Photos “Show Referenced File in Finder” Option to Reveal the Original File in Mac OS X: 1. Select an image in Photos app, go to the File Menu 2. Choose “Show Referenced File in Finder” to open the original files location within the Mac file system. 3. If the File > Show Referenced File in Finder command is active. If it is, you can ask Photos to copy the file into the Photos library file by choosing File > Consolidate. Option 2: Access the Original Image File with a Drag & Drop from Photos App to a Mac Folder If you choose to maintain the default Photos function of importing and copying pictures into a distinct Photos library, the “Show Referenced File in Finder” won’t be available to you. This means you’ll need to use a workaround to access the original image, perhaps the most simple is a basic drag and drop: Just select the image you want to access in the Finder of OS X, and drag it from the Photos app into a folder on the Mac desktop. A copy of the file – not the original – will reveal itself in the location you dropped the picture. Option 3: Use Finder to Dig Around in Photos.photoslibrary Not recommended but another possibility is to root around in the Photos Library.photoslibrary package found in ~/Pictures/ and manually attempt to locate the master image file(s). This works, but the .photoslibrary packages are clearly not intended to be user facing, and the directories are not organized in a manner that makes them easy to browse. While this is possible, I do not recommend this unless the above methods don’t work and you absolutely must access the original image file, mostly because improper handling of these master picture files can lead to problems in Photos app, or worse, the loss of an image or photo. > Severin Crisp > Albany 10C, hail a few minutes ago! A real shocker of a night last night here and NO walks for Perez & I today :( Cheers, Ronni 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage El Capitan OS X 10.11.5 > ____________________________________________________ > > Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys > 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia > ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) > mail to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au > <mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au> > ____________________________________________________
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