Comments on: Download Photo Stream Photos to a Folder in Mac OS X

By: Osgood

Osgood — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:01:54 +0000

Quick suggestion: use the “path to” command to derive the paths to common folders:

set the PhotoStreamFolder to (((path to application support folder from user domain) as string) & “iLifeAssetManagement:assets:”) as alias
set the destinationFolder to (((path to pictures folder) as string) & “MyStream:”) as alias
tell application “Finder”
try
duplicate (every file of the entire contents of this_folder whose name contains “IMG”) to the target_folder with replacing
end try
end tell

By: thebingster

thebingster — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:43:55 +0000

Frustrating that you need iPhoto 11 just to enable Photo Stream. Is there any way of doing this without it?

I have no interest in using iPhoto as I use Lightroom, so I’m loathe to upgrade (I have iPhoto 09) just to use this feature.

By: thebingster

thebingster — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:43:55 +0000

Frustrating that you need iPhoto 11 just to enable Photo Stream. Is there any way of doing this without it?

I have no interest in using iPhoto as I use Lightroom, so I’m loathe to upgrade (I have iPhoto 09) just to use this feature.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:49:59 +0000

Is there anyway to just do a delta update of the folder in this script? Replace all everytime takes forever. Is there anyway to make it just grab the new files? I don’t know enough of the scripting to make that happen. Please help!

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 07:29:55 +0000

Do you have iPhoto? I removed iPhoto from my Air (partially to save space, mostly because its an awful program), and it doesn’t work for me.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:23:38 +0000

It’s probably the quotations, retype them from your keyboard rather than copy and paste and it should work. Web browsers can mess up quotes sometimes.

By: Photodweeb

Photodweeb — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:13:04 +0000

I tried to compile and got “Expected end of line, etc. but found identifier.” “IMG” is highlighted as the location of the issue. hmmm

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:31:45 +0000

Why not use “folder action” ? Or the folder “assets” is a special one, so “folder action” doesn’t work on that ?

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:00:30 +0000

Works for me and I don’t have iLife.

By: tom

tom — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:54:50 +0000

don’t work for me… sorry… tried all.

but I WANT IT!

By: Rafagon

Rafagon — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:35:48 +0000

You need iLife *’11* as well… This wasn’t mentioned in the article!

By: skk

skk — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:51:46 +0000

In order to use the following script, you will need iOS 5 and OS X 10.7.2 or later, as well as iCloud set up and configured and the Photo Stream option enabled in Mac OS X’s iCloud System Preferences.

AND

iphoto installed otherwise its not working at all..

By: Clark

Clark — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:42:35 +0000

Excellent tip. I think Apple doesn’t allow us a choice because soon we will have no file system to choose from