New Tutorial #435
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Hey Rhet, super new to a lot of this. Can understand basics but honestly a little lost. Installed osxphotos on a computer that I am setting up for my wife. Want to pull the old photos out of the library but apple photos won't export anything. Not sure why but I've exhausted that route. Basically osxphotos can pull up meta data of the library but export won't work. I put in osxphotos export and terminal tells me 'DEST' is missing. I have the directory path but either I'm not sure how to put it in correctly or there's an issue. I assume it can find the library since I can pull the meta data, ex. geo tags and albums works fine. If you have any insight it would be greatly appreciated |
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It's possible about the iCloud but if I can see them in the library can't I export them? I'm taking this computer over from a relative and its not possible to get the iCloud info at this point. |
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I've blanked out my wife's username for privacy other than that it's all the same Js-MacBook-Pro:~ j******$ osxphotos export Error: Missing argument 'DEST'. Options: Commands: Error: Missing argument 'DEST'. |
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Not necessarily. You'd be able to see a preview of the image (which Photos always keeps) but there are a couple of conditions under which the original images could be missing and thus you couldn't export:
Regarding the error with "Missing argument DEST", that stands for "Destination Path" and you need to tell osxphotos where to export the photos (the destination path). For example, if you wanted the photos exported to "/Users/your_wifes_name/Desktop/photos" you could do the following at the Terminal prompt:
Now, this will export the photos if they're present on the Mac but it's not likely to be exactly what you want since it will dump all the photos into the single directory
This exports the photos to ~/Desktop/export If this isn't an iCloud library or you don't have the iCloud password, you can still download the preview image for any missing images using this command:
Have you read the osxphotos tutorial? If not, I suggest you do so:
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Regarding your first two points - I was able to confirm 1. but not 2.
I've read the tutorial and I think my issue is I just don't know enough about command lines and how to write them out to get the actions I want. Anyway, adding the DEST path worked! Kind of. Heres what happened: Js-MacBook-Pro:~ j*$ osxphotos export ~/desktop/photos A folder was created on my desktop but only one file was exported. It was a video file, random. I then input the preview if missing command and here are the results: Js-MacBook-Pro:~ jt$ osxphotos export ~/desktop/photos --export-by-date --preview-if-missing After this, the 1038 files exported onto my desktop in a photos folder, they're preview size which I'm okay with but none of the videos exported, obviously. Im fine with what I've got so I thank you immensely but if there is a way to get the videos and other misc off the library I'd love to try. Cheers for everything |
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I believe the copy error you're getting (due to images with the same name being dumped in the same folder) were fixed recently (#515). Not sure how you installed osxphotos but try updating and running the export again: Assuming you used pipx: The try running the export again, using the --update flag:
If you still get those errors, it's a bug, so let me know and I'll take a look. As for the videos, nothing I can do there as Photos doesn't usually store a preview of the video file, only a low-res screen grab that it shows in Photos until it can start streaming the video from the cloud. If you can log in to iCloud, you can use the |
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Did the upgrade, thank you. tried download missing and got this error for every photo. Two videos did come through though. Very weird. This was repeated for over 1000 photos. I ended up downloading the previews, which worked. I guess the iCloud is probably the main culprit Error exporting photo (C82DF29C-E0E5-42E2-93E8-43A5872F1DF5: IMG_3310.HEIC) as IMG_3310.HEIC: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=516 "“C82DF29C-E0E5-42E2-93E8-43A5872F1DF5_1_105_c.jpeg” couldn’t be copied to “photos” because an item with the same name already exists." UserInfo={NSSourceFilePathErrorKey=/Volumes/STORAGE/Editor/Photos Library.photoslibrary/resources/derivatives/C/C82DF29C-E0E5-42E2-93E8-43A5872F1DF5_1_105_c.jpeg, NSUserStringVariant=( |
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I was able to replicate this behavior. It's a bug - you shouldn't get those copy errors. However, if you used --update you shouldn't have seen those errors. (I could only replicate this if I didn't use --update). --update doesn't copy files that are already exported, only files not yet exported. |
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I've opened a bug (#516) for the copy error (you got these because the preview file already existed but that shouldn't have happened as osxphotos should have incremented the file name when the destination file already exists). e.g. IMG_3310_preview.jpeg should have been incremented as IMG_3310 (1)_preview.jpeg. I believe --update would have avoided this (it skips files already exported) but either way, this is still a bug. For your use case, despite the copy errors, I believe you likely have extracted all you can from the Photos library at this point since you don't have the iCloud credentials. |
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I've fixed this bug with preview images in v0.42.84 |
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I've written a new Tutorial for the README that I hope will make osxphotos easier for new users. I welcome any feedback, suggestions, corrections that anyone has!
https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos#tutorial
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