Photos - duplicate folder and it's contents

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#1

So I have a folder

-- folder
   -- smart album
   -- album
      -- folder2
         -- smart album

Can AppleScript take the selected folder and duplicate it and it’s contents? Or does anyone know of an app?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks

#2

Assuming this is all within Photos.app, this is going to be hard to do.

First off, Photos has no mechanism to duplicate folders or albums. It does have a duplicate command, but it is explicitly related to media items only:

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There’s also no UI element to duplicate a folder, so you can’t fake it via UI scripting.

So that leaves the idea of walking through the source folder, recreating it item-by-item. However, there is zero support in AppleScript for smart folders, so while you might be able to recreate the albums and folders from your source, there’s just no practical way (that I can see) to recreate smart folders.

So I don’t see any way to do what you ask.

Maybe I’m wrong, but others are free to correct me :slight_smile:

#3

thanks for the response. appreciated. Hopefully another way to duplicate instead of a manual process.

#4

Why do you want to duplicate a folder structure (and contents)?