I can even import from Photo Stream via a nice little piece of AppleScript. All photos get imported into that Hazel watch folder, so my naming gets applied automatically, leaving me to manually sort photos in to their folders at my lesiure. This setup doesn’t harness PhotoStream, however, so I still have iPhoto setup to catch those images, just in case I don’t import something by mistake. Find iPhoto in the Applications folder and do the same, hold ALT/OPTION and click the icon. If not, go back to Finder and navigate to Applications. Now, if iPhoto is in your Dock, hold ALT/OPTION and click the icon. Back up and sync docs, photos, videos, and other files to cloud storage and access them from any device, no matter where you are. Copy this folder to your Dropbox, wherever you want it stored at there. Dropbox lets anyone upload and transfer files to the cloud, and share them with anyone. Thanks to iTunes’ ability to sync and iOS device with a folder of photos, I can still get my photos over to my iPhone and iPad easily: You should see a file named iPhoto Library. The upload is rough, but once it is done, I’ll have version history, undelete and all of Dropbox’s other goodies working their magic on my photos. Now, I have a “Photo Library” folder in my Dropbox folder, arranged by project, with a bunch of photos in chronological order.

Automator named each file with the following scheme, based on file creation time: YYYY-MM-DD at HH-MM-SS-AM/PMįor new photos, I’m using a Hazel rule to do the same thing: I used Automator to export my library into a folder, with a sub-folder for each project. I rarely use it edit my photos, and really prefer it over iPhoto just for the organization in to projects. If you are using iPhoto 9.6.1, you can run it as before older versions that came from the Mac App Store, or with a. Viticci just wrote up a nice post outlining his move from iPhoto to Dropbox.Īfter reading it, I started to think about why I continue to suffer with use Aperture.

Hazel app dropbox to iphoto