Michal Marek Photo Stream is one of iCloud's great features that allows you to automatically sync photos taken with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch to your other iOS devices, as well as to iPhoto on your Mac. However, iPhoto is not suitable for everyone and makes basic operations with the given images quite complicated, such as moving them, inserting them into documents, attaching them to e-mails, and so on. Many of you would certainly welcome the possibility of quick access to synchronized photos directly in the Finder, in the form of a classic JPG or PNG format file. This approach can be ensured relatively easily and we will advise you how to do it.
Before you get down to business, make sure you have:
- Mac OS X 10 or later and iCloud set up correctly on your Mac
- Installed at least iOS 5 on all your mobile devices and also have iCloud turned on
- Photo Stream enabled on all devices
Approach
- Open the Finder and use the keyboard shortcut cmd ⌘+Shift+G to bring up the “Go To Folder. Now enter the following path:
~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/sub/
- Of course, you can also get to the desired folder manually, but it is slower, and in the default settings of the current Mac OS X, the Library folder is not displayed in the Finder.
- If for whatever reason the above keyboard shortcut doesn't work for you, click Open in the Finder's top bar and hold cmd ⌘+Alt, which will bring up the Library. Following the path mentioned above, click through to the "sub" folder.
- After you get to the desired folder, enter "Image" in the Finder search and select "Kind: Image".
- Now save this search (using the Save key, which can also be seen in the image above) and preferably name it Photo Stream. Next, check the "Add to sidebar" option.
- Now with one click in the Finder sidebar, you have instant access to photos synced with Photo Stream, and all the photos from your iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch are instantly at hand.
Automatic synchronization with Photo Stream is definitely more convenient than manually copying your photos from different devices. If you haven't used Photo Stream yet, this simple but useful tweak might just convince you. For example, if you only want to view iPhone screenshots on your computer, simply focus your Finder search on PNG files only. If, on the other hand, you want to filter out this type of images and really only see photos, look for files of the "JPG" type.
Source: Osxdaily.com
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Bomb! Thank you very much :)
You're welcome :)
Where is the error when I don't see the iLifeAssetManagement folder??
Great, thanks.
We were happy to help :)
That's convenient, you can quickly get to the photos and you don't have to launch iPhoto.
apple should take the plunge and make photostream in iphoto a virtual device, this is how working with hundreds of photos is useful.
And do you drop photos into this folder automatically, or does iPhoto pull them from the cloud when iPhoto is running?
By default, iPhoto does not affect the folder.
After clicking Finder > Go in the top panel, you don't need to press CMD+ALT, just Alt and the Library will appear.
That's great. If anyone had a problem with their photos being sorted alphabetically or otherwise, just right click and Clean Up by Date created, it worked for me too.
Excellent tweak. Thanks.
I would perhaps explain to the readers that it is intended for viewing and downloading photos from the photostream, but it is not suitable for uploading photos to the photostream - each photo is stored in a separate folder named with some kind of code. But otherwise great.
Thanks... now I don't have to wait for iPhoto to "notice" that I took a picture :-)
Well, this is absolutely excellent! Thank you!!
iphoto or aperture is required to enable photo stream on mac. Is there a way around it?
Can someone help me, please?
Everything works for me, but when I save the search created in this way and then enter it again, I can't see any more photos... Unfortunately, I can't think of where I'm making a mistake.
Thanks for every attack!
Too bad one still needs the latest iPhoto. It can't be done without him. Which I think is the problem why "Zila" doesn't see iLifeAssetManagement
The procedure is quite simple, but somehow I stumbled right at the beginning. When I search for Picture in the Finder, it doesn't tell me any "kind", it just searches the whole mac and looks for files named picture. I really don't know what exactly to put in there so that my "search bar" looks exactly like this... Thanks for the advice.
Jn, I don't see iLifeAssetManagement anywhere either, so from what I'm reading, I have to have the latest iPhoto and then it will work?:)
Nonsense. If I want the photos, I can find them in photostream and then display them in the events from where they can be shown directly marked in the finder. 2 handles. Even a scattered photo.
Question, I have a problem, can someone help?.
I have a Pc sW7, iCloud and Photostream turned on, the link to the HDD folder on the PC is c:iCloudMy Photo Stream.
When I manually copy the photos here on the PC to this folder, why don't they appear on the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV in the photos?
Thanks
Petr