AppInitio (u/AppInitio)

AppInitio commented on Show HN: macOS app PhotoSort could help reduce your monthly iCloud bill · Posted by u/AppInitio

Guess I asked to soon. I looked in the menu bar and and clicked on SizeSort Largest Files. Should put a button or link on the home page since all the other options to click are on there as well.

AppInitio · 3 months ago

Thanks, we will. The pop-up message after sorting does say that you can view the Top-30 via View menu, but most folks (us included) click OK without reading it :)

AppInitio commented on Show HN: macOS app PhotoSort could help reduce your monthly iCloud bill · Posted by u/AppInitio

flxfxp · 3 months ago

Seems like a pending OSX update was the case; prior to that I rebooted twice and it wasn't working, after updating OSX it worked :-)

AppInitio · 3 months ago

Yay! If you find the app useful, please do rate it on the App Store - that's the only way indie developers can gain some visibility. Thanks.

AppInitio commented on Show HN: macOS app PhotoSort could help reduce your monthly iCloud bill · Posted by u/AppInitio

worldsavior · 3 months ago

It sounds good, but why restrict it only to Apple? Couldn't it support other cloud providers? Seems like a waste of codebase.

AppInitio · 3 months ago

The code and the Apple framework it uses unfortunately can't be used for, e.g. Windows apps.

AppInitio commented on Show HN: macOS app PhotoSort could help reduce your monthly iCloud bill · Posted by u/AppInitio

flxfxp · 3 months ago

Apologies if I was not clear: I obviously followed the prompt and quit the app several times before deciding to reply to your message. It's still giving me the same message.

AppInitio · 3 months ago

Sorry about this: Very unusual. If the app can't access the library, presumably the 3+3 thumbnails on Home screen and the Top-30 report in View menu are also blank? Please reboot the Mac and try; if even that doesn't help please email us via the app mentioning your macOS version, so we can troubleshoot step by step.

AppInitio commented on Show HN: macOS app PhotoSort could help reduce your monthly iCloud bill · Posted by u/AppInitio

r0fl · 3 months ago

Image capture has been able to sort images by size since 2009 for free.

I’ve been cleaning up my pictures that was since the iPhone 3GS

Congrats on moving up the App Store list. Good marketing will still make you money even though there is a free solution to the problem people are trying to solve

AppInitio · 3 months ago

Image Capture? It only captures images from devices like iPhone or DSLR cameras. As far as I know it has no sorting capability, and it also can't interrogate the Mac or iCloud Photos library - so how would it sort it?

AppInitio commented on Show HN: macOS app PhotoSort could help reduce your monthly iCloud bill · Posted by u/AppInitio

flxfxp · 3 months ago

Great idea! unfortunately it doesn't want process despite giving it access to my library: "PhotoSort cannot access the library. Quit Photos and try again."

let me know how I can solve this in order to become a customer.

AppInitio · 3 months ago

Sure. As the alert says: Quit Photos. PhotoSort gets file size and other data from the same database that powers Apple's Photos app, so (in order to preserve its integrity) Photos 'locks' the database when it's using it. Closing Photos will solve the issue. Please confirm once it's resolved (or if you still can't).

AppInitio commented on Show HN: macOS app PhotoSort could help reduce your monthly iCloud bill · Posted by u/AppInitio

skinner927 · 3 months ago

How do you identify quality? Are you sending the photos off my device?

AppInitio · 3 months ago

Nope, everything is done locally on the device itself. Every item in the library is scored on various parameters e.g. composition, lighting, focus, color scheme etc. and the final ranking is based on a weighted average of these.

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