For the pile you've been avoiding.
Plain answers for a drive full of photos. Most of them work without cullzy; where cullzy is the faster way, they say so.
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How to sort thousands of photos into folders on a Mac
Three ways to turn a drive of unsorted photos into folders on a Mac: by hand in Finder, automatically by date, or one photo at a time with a key per folder. And how long each takes.
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How to separate your own photos from screenshots and WhatsApp images
A phone backup is full of screenshots and forwards. How to find them on a Mac by name, folder and size, in Finder or all at once, without deleting anything you meant to keep.
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How to find duplicate photos in folders on a Mac
Apple Photos only finds duplicates inside its own library. Exact copies, near-copies and look-alikes explained, the free and paid tools that search folders, and how never to lose the last copy.
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Photo culling, for people who aren't photographers
Culling apps are built for wedding shoots. If you have years of phone photos and backups, you need something else: what to look for, the four decisions every photo comes down to, and how to keep going.
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Organizing family photos for genealogy: scans, surnames and folders that last
A folder structure genealogists use (surname, household, event), file names you can search, why the date on a scan is wrong, keeping names and sources with the photo, and backing it all up.
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For photographers: sorting the archive, not the shoot
Culling one shoot is a job for Photo Mechanic or Aftershoot. Sorting years of drives is a different one: folders that last, keeping each RAW with its JPEG and sidecars, and moving files without breaking a Lightroom catalog.
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The best apps for sorting photos into folders on a Mac
An honest list from the people who make one of them: which Mac apps move photos into real folders, which only make albums, which are free, and which one fits your pile.
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Slidebox for Mac: the same idea, for folders on your Mac
Slidebox sorts the Apple Photos library one swipe at a time. If your photos are files on a Mac or a drive, this is the closest thing, and here's when Slidebox is still the better pick.
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PhotoSift for Mac: one key, one folder, on a Mac
PhotoSift is a free Windows tool that files the photo on screen into a folder with one key. There's no Mac version. What to use on a Mac instead, and what's different.
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Apple Photos or plain folders? When albums aren't enough
Albums in Apple Photos don't move anything. When the Photos app is the right home for your pictures, when real folders are better, and how to get from one to the other.