iOS / MacBook - alternative to Finder?
What's a good, preferably free, file explorer alternative to Finder for iOS?
I haven't touched my MacBook Pro in maybe a year. I want to wipe it and clear Bootcamp, turning it into an iPhone programming/iTunes/media station.
But I have some personal files I want to manually back up first. I find Finder to be irritating for this, to say the least.
Any recommendations?
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But right now I just want to explore my photos outside of iPhoto/Photos so I can back them up individually. I don't want to just back up the library.
That's really an Photos issue, not a Finder issue; by default usage, Photos stores its files in a weird structure:
The easiest way I've found to get things out of Photos into an easy to modify structure is to select all images in Photos and "export original files", which will export all files (either into one folder or into folders separated by 'moments').
Thanks.
- Open the Pictures folder in your main User folder (the latter will have the same name as your user account)
- There should be a file inside called either "Photos Library" or "iPhoto Library".
- Hold "control" on your keyboard and click the file which will open a context menu. Select "Show Package Contents" near the top.
- In that folder, select "Masters", or if that's not there for some reason select "Originals".
At this point you should see a hierarchy of folders with the top layer being the year the photos were taken. The tree view you've discovered will be helpful; use the left and right arrows on your keyboard to move to the parent or child folder of the one you're currently looking at, and the up and down arrows to navigate the files within each folder. Once you're a few layers in you'll get to the actual photos, and Finder will show a preview of the currently selected photo.
But yeah, it's frustrating... the thing is the Photos library is really more like a .tar file than a set of raw files, which is why it's not as trivial to edit in Finder as if it was raw files
I did find a tutorial that looks promising when I was looking for "alternatives to Phoshare", so I present it to you with no endorsement other than "this looks useful". It's designed to get your photos out so you can move them into whatever mylio is, but obviously you can stop at the point where you have set them free.
http://mylio.com/support/import-photos-manual/