Hi
I have this folder action to import photos into iphoto and it does exactly what i want.
If a file or a folder or more of them goes in, iphoto imports it as events and name the event like the file ore folder name.
In the Photos app events are gone so i search for a similar solution for albums.
Any help on this would be appreciated
property DELAY_TIME_SECONDS : 5
on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving addedItems
repeat with f in addedItems
set oldSize to 0
set newSize to -1
repeat while newSize is not equal to oldSize
set oldSize to size of (info for f)
delay DELAY_TIME_SECONDS
set newSize to size of (info for f)
end repeat
-- HERE BEGINS THE IPhoto SPECIFIC STUFF
tell application "iPhoto"
try
import from f without force copy
end try
end tell
-- HERE ENDS THE IPhoto SPECIFIC STUFF
end repeat
end adding folder items to
As a starter, this will create a new folder called “My Events” and create an album (or event) from the name of a chosen folder:
set f to choose folder
tell application "System Events"
set f_name to name of f
set file_list to path of every item of f whose visible is true
end tell
tell application "Photos"
activate
set my_events to make new folder named "My Events"
set new_event to make new album named f_name at my_events
import file_list into new_event
end tell
I don’t know if you made the folder action, but the info is there in it. Note that if the folder already exists, then you don’t need to make it. Just get a reference to the event folder.
thank you for your reply with it finally i get it to work and you are right id didn’t wright the first part of the original script by myself but i know what it does, i am not really a script expert. With your reply in mind i dive now a little bit more into this stuff and learn a little bit so thank you again.
This is working well it creates an album and name it like the folder in Finder and imports the files in it into the album.
It works wit multiple folders to.
Exactly what i want.
property DELAY_TIME_SECONDS : 5
on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving addedItems
repeat with f in addedItems
set oldSize to 0
set newSize to -1
repeat while newSize is not equal to oldSize
set oldSize to size of (info for f)
delay DELAY_TIME_SECONDS
set newSize to size of (info for f)
tell application "System Events"
set f_name to name of f
set file_list to (path of every item of f whose visible is true)
end tell
end repeat
tell application "Photos"
activate
set new_event to make new album named f_name
import file_list into new_event
end tell
end repeat
end adding folder items to
Nice work putting the folder action and the script together!
I didn’t have much time last time, but if you’re interested, folders contain invisible files sometimes. Mainly, there this invisible file .DS_Store. That’s why you have to eliminate the invisible file by filtering only visible files.
You could also use the line:
path of every file of f whose visible is true
Then, in case there a subfolders in the folder, the script will only look for files.
Hi,
yes you are right this is a better solution to avoid unwanted imports.
But I have another question there is a strange behavior with the Photos app.
The script works fine if the files are imported from the System drive but if the directory that has the folder action attached to it is on a different drive Photos app is not willing to import the files. This is strange it crates an blank album and when you drag the files from the finder into it the are importing fine.
I have no idea what’s going.
I think this is a bug in the Photos app ?
Hi,
now i got it.
The problem was sandboxing.
For now this is working.
property DELAY_TIME_SECONDS : 5
on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving addedItems
tell application id "com.apple.Photos" to run
repeat with f in addedItems
set oldSize to 0
set newSize to -1
repeat while newSize is not equal to oldSize
set oldSize to size of (info for f)
delay DELAY_TIME_SECONDS
set newSize to size of (info for f)
tell application id "com.apple.systemevents"
set f_name to name of f
set n to (POSIX path of every file of f whose visible is true)
set theList to n
end tell
end repeat
repeat with g in n
set theList to theList & (POSIX file g)
end repeat
tell application id "com.apple.Photos"
try
set new_event to make new album named f_name
import theList into new_event
end try
end tell
end repeat
end adding folder items to
