I wrote these because the apps and suggestions I tried before lacked either live photos, or the YYYY/MM
file structure I wanted to organize my photos.
This requires:
- Homebrew (or, in Linux, if you're running the conversion there, you need imagemagick 7+,
cd Downloads && sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev libtiff-dev libwebp-dev libheif-dev && wget http://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz && tar -xzvf ImageMagick.tar.gz && cd ImageMagick-* && ./configure --with-heic=yes --with-webp=yes --with-jpg=yes --with-png=yes && make && sudo make install && sudo ldconfig /usr/local/lib
) - Node v14+
- The two files here (I put them in
~/Downloads/
) - Exporting your iCloud Photos originals, with the moments subfolder. I exported them all to
~/Downloads/iCloud Photos Export
.
After having your export: