Do you have thousands of images scattered across dozens of disks and computers?
Have you taken pictures over the years on several iPhones and iPads - and all your images on each new device start over with the same re-used names?
Do you have several different Apple Photos Libraries and wish you could gather all your images together in one Library without duplicates?
Have you received lots of images inside Apple Mail and Apple Messages and wish you had a simple way to gather them altogether?
consolidateImages is a macOS application designed to gather together one copy of all your original images from all of your disks and store them in one Archive.
consolidateImages can find images hidden deep inside your computer in your Apple Mail and Apple Messages libraries and copy them to a new Archive of your choosing.
consolidateImages will eliminate most duplicates, reduce conflict between different images with the same names, and rectify many date/time conflicts between camera times and file times.
You can have as many consolidateImages Archives as you would like, and you can move (or copy) and entire Archive from one disk to another.
consolidateImages does not erase or delete any originals from your disks - it only makes copies into your chosen Archive.
consolidateImages enables you to curate your entire set of all your originals and then selectively export them to Apple Photos.
Limitations
1) By design, all sources/archives must be internal or locally attached disks; cloud-based or network disks cannot be used as sources or archives.
2) The Lite version can find unlimited images, but will only process/copy up to 4.
3) consolidateImages is NOT a conversion program. The goal of the program is to find and copy originals, unchanged, into an Archive. JPGs, PNGs, PSDs, TIFs, BMPs, GIFs, Raw Images, etc., are found wherever they are stored and all copied in their original format. There is one exception to this: if the program is used on a computer running macOS Mojave (10.14), PICT files will be converted (if possible) to JPGs or PNGs, depending on their level of transparency. Version 2.0.0 includes an experimental capability to process Apple PICT files in macOS 10.15.7 and macOS 11.3 as well. The original PICT file will be copied to a special folder, and the converted file stored in the Archive. Please note that this does NOT happen on computers running macOS Catalina (10.15) or later; the PICT file originals will be copied to a folder inside the Archive called “Images_That_Need_External_Quicktime_Conversion”. (You can access this folder inside the Archive by checking under the File Menu -> Show Folders for -> Quicktime 7 Needed.)
4) consolidateImages makes every attempt to identify duplicate images. In some cases an image may visually appear to be a duplicate of another, but is either a different resolution, has been modified in some way or has been saved in a different format. At this time consolidateImages does not differentiate these cases.
5) consolidateImages will re-check all Sources in the sources list every it runs. It is recommended that you remove sources from the list once you have completed your consolidation of that location. You can add sources back to the list at any time, and only new, recently added or modified images will be found and copied to the Archive. This is particularly useful to help find new images received in Apple Mail and Apple Messages from time to time.
6) Export to Photos is supported only on computers running macOS Catalina (10.15) or later.
7) Throughput and performance are directly tied to the speed of the computer’s CPU and graphics card, the amount and speed of memory, and the speed and type of the storage media for the archive and all of the sources.
consolidateImages will find all your images - anywhere you let it look - inside your Photos Libraries, inside your Apple Mail, inside your Apple Messages, and wherever else you choose.
consolidateImages enables you to send images through Apple Mail and Apple Messages.
consolidateImages enables you to print full resolution copies of your pictures, and has a unique 35mm-style slide output for printing multiple images with pertinent information on each one.
Download the
consolidateImages - User's Guide
to find out more.
consolidateImages will let you examine the embedded META data in any of your images by right-clicking on them in the Archive.
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