I have never really used Apple Script, but recently had the desire to backup all my Apple Photos to my local NAS. I currently have all my photos organized in a Folder -> Album structure so pulled this Apple Script together together to get this done. Create a new Apple Script (*.scpt) and select the source Photos Folder and a location to save the files on your filesystem. Note: Slashes in the name case folders to be created 🙁
tell application "Photos"
activate
set folderList to name of every folder
set selectedFolders to choose from list folderList with prompt "Select folders:" with multiple selections allowed
set destination to POSIX path of (choose folder with prompt "Please select a backup location:")
repeat with f in folders
if selectedFolders contains name of f then
my exportFolder(f, destination, name)
end if
end repeat
end tell
-- export a folder to a given destination
on exportFolder(tFolder, tPath, name)
set folderName to tPath & "/" & name
log folderName
using terms from application "Photos"
tell tFolder
repeat with childAlbum in albums
my exportAlbum(childAlbum, folderName)
end repeat
repeat with childFolder in folders
set name to name of childFolder
my exportFolder(childFolder, folderName, name)
end repeat
end tell
end using terms from
end exportFolder
-- export an album to a given destination
on exportAlbum(tAlbum, tPath)
set alName to name of tAlbum
set albumName to tPath & "/" & alName
my makeFolder(albumName)
log albumName
tell application "Photos"
try
with timeout of 30 * 60 seconds
export (get media items of tAlbum) to (albumName as POSIX file) with using originals
end timeout
on error
tell me to delay 5
activate
with timeout of 30 * 60 seconds
export (get media items of tAlbum) to (albumName as POSIX file) with using originals
end timeout
end try
end tell
end exportAlbum
on makeFolder(tPath)
do shell script "mkdir -p " & quoted form of tPath
end makeFolder
