This software might help you copy, move, view, and organize your pictures outside of the Photos app to make sure all of them arein one place. Usually, photos won’tbe smaller than 0.5 MB, and even that’s mostly from cameras with three or fewer megapixels.Ī further alternative to this method is to use third-party apps specialized for searching and organizingfiles and photos on Mac. For this process, it would be helpful to know the average size of photo files. The safest estimation on the minimum size would be from 3KB-100KB– images of that size are most probably not your photos. Enter theminimum size in kilobytes, and the search won’t return results smaller than what you choose. To do so, go back to the Smart Folder, open the search criteria, and select File Size, Is Greater Than. If you want to avoid copying images that are only graphics associated with other files, such as help files, you canexclude them from the search by size. That’s why, if there are too many images in the search results, it might be better to copy them to the new folder in several batches. Note that if there’s a large number of files, the process might take a while, and if the search returns a huge number of photos, your system might even become unresponsive.

Drag the photo files from the search results to the new folder.

Navigate to your search results and select all picture files by pressing Command+A or clicking on Select All from the File menu.

If you want to move all your photos, or only those of a particular type, to a single folder, first set it up by creating and naming the new folder.

However, you can reopen the criteria window by clicking the gear icon and choosing Show Search Criteria. After you choose Save, the criteria will disappear from your screen, and you’ll only see the Smart Folder you just created. Remember to name it so that you’ll always know what it’s for – pick a name like Pictures Search or something similar.

Click Save in the upper right corner to save the criteria for future searches.

Do this for every picture format you can think of or for those stored on your Mac. Keep the Kind and Image options, but change the format.

At the end of that line, click the Plus button and add another set of criteria.

From it, select Kind, Image, and a picture format like JPEG or PNG. Click on it to add the criteria for the search.

Hold Option and you’ll see the Plus button turn into three dots.

Click the Plus button in the top right corner.

Launch Finder Spotlight by pressing Command+spacebar.

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