Ember Exporter

ember_exporter.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Input arguments
source_path = ARGV[0]
destinationPath = ARGV[1] || '~/Desktop/ember_backup'

# Creade destination directory if it doesn't exist
`mkdir -p #{destinationPath}`

# Find the embersnaps in the directory and count them
ember_snaps = Dir["#{source_path}/*.embersnap"]
ember_snaps_count = ember_snaps.count

number_of_files_successfully_copied = 0
files_not_copied = []

# Loop through the snaps, find the media file and copy it to the destination
ember_snaps.each_with_index do |file, index|
  image_file = Dir["#{file}/*.{png,PNG,jpg,JPG,jpeg,psd,gif,mov,svg}"][0]

  if image_file == nil
    files_not_copied << file
    next
  end

  print "Copying file #{index + 1}/#{ember_snaps_count}...\r"
  `cp '#{image_file}' #{destinationPath}`

  number_of_files_successfully_copied += 1
end

# Let the user know it's done!
puts "Done! #{number_of_files_successfully_copied} of #{ember_snaps_count} files copied."

# If there's been any errors, let the user know
if number_of_files_successfully_copied > 0
  puts "\n#{files_not_copied.count} file#{'s' if files_not_copied.count > 1} could not be copied:"

  files_not_copied.each do |file|
    puts "- #{file}"
  end
end

For the past few years I've been collecting design inspiration in Ember. Sadly, Realmac has stopped development of Ember without giving users a good way to export their Library from High Sierra where the app just crashes on launch. Thankfully, the folder structure of the Ember library is pretty straightforward and contains all of the original image files.

This script automates the process of exporting your library so you don't have to copy each file manually.

How it works

$ ruby ember_exporter.rb [ember_library_snaps_folder_path] [target_directory_path] (optional)

Here's an example of how it works in practice:

$ ruby ember_exporter.rb "~/Dropbox (Personal)/Apps/EmberApp/EmberLibrary/Snaps"

If you don't include a target path (as you see above), your images will be copied to a ember_backup folder on your desktop.

I copied one of the .embersnap files, changed the format to .jpg, opened the folder and I can see the jpg.

Not sure what your script does. Is it the equivalent of doing what I just did, but as a batch processor?

Super helpful! Thanks.

Thanks to your script I could save a library that I had been saving for a decade! thank you!

Thanks for this

Thank you very much for this, finally restored a huge library which I thought was lost.

Hi Vernalkick, after a long odyssey of looking for an alternative to ember I've found Eagle which works very similar to Ember. Yet, transfering the library from Ember to Eagle is manually impossible. Do you think it's possible to write a script, that copies all metadata like tags, notes and URLs to IPTC tags which the could be imported to Eagle...?