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Glad it's useful for you!

> As far as I know, this is the only tool that restores albums and correctly round-trips all Photos item types while preserving location data, creation dates, and modification date…

Check out Textinator [0] which is an open source macOS app that watches for screenshots and automatically does text detection then copies text to clipboard. (Disclaimer: I'm the au…

For macOS users, I'm the author of Textinator [0] a similar utility for macOS that uses Apple's Vision framework [1] for doing the OCR natively. Modern versions of macOS (since Son…

I've created a similar tool in python that I find quite useful: https://github.com/RhetTbull/dirsnapshot This doesn't compute content hashes as your tool does but is designed to hi…

> Any method that I've found to clean them up (exporting the originals, deleting them from the library, and then re-importing the JPEGs only seems easiest) will lose all of the yea…

Yes, `osxphotos show UUID` will open the photo with UUID in the Photos app. (I'm the author of osxphotos)

https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos will do this: osxphotos query --min-size 100MB --add-to-album "Big Files" Finds all photos, videos > 100MB and adds them to the album "Big fi…

I'm the author of the osxphotos[0] tool mentioned in the article. For photos in an Apple Photos library, osxphotos gives you access to a rich set of metadata beyond what's in the a…

Very nice reverse engineering work! I wrote a python library and CLI that does something similar but interacts with Notes via Scripting Bridge: https://github.com/RhetTbull/macnote…

I'm the author of python library & command line tool, https://github.com/RhetTbull/macnotesapp , that will allow you to use Markdown to create (but not yet edit) notes from the Ter…

https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos A macOS command-line "multi-tool" for working with Apple Photos. Allows you to export photos (along with all the metadata), batch-edit metada…

I'm the author of osxphotos. Glad you found it useful!