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PowerPhotos 3.3 adds Shortcuts support

PowerPhotos 3.3 is now available, and adds support for Apple’s Shortcuts app for the first time.

Shortcuts

This new release provides over 30 new actions for you to use in your shortcuts to help you manipulate the photos and albums in your Photos libraries. The actions aim to fill in the gaps not covered by the actions provided by Photos itself, as well as expanding to provide access to PowerPhotos unique functionality.

The provided actions let you:

  • Retrieve photos and albums from your libraries, with support for filtering based on properties of the photos/album (e.g. find all unedited photos taken in the last week)
  • Create, rename, and delete albums/folders
  • Add/remove photos from albums
  • Delete photos/albums
  • Create new libraries and manage the PowerPhotos library list
  • Open a particular library, album, or photo in Photos or PowerPhotos
  • Retrieve and edit photo metadata
  • Copy/move photos between libraries
  • Import photos
  • Export photos
  • Merge libraries

Take a look at the PowerPhotos documentation for descriptions of each action, as well as a bunch of example shortcuts that demonstrate how to use them.

PowerPhotos already had AppleScript support, and now its AppleScript support has also been updated to support most of the same operations that can be done with Shortcuts (and a few things that Shortcuts can’t).

The sidebar that contains your list of libraries has had a number of changes.

  • You can now show and hide the sidebar, allowing more room for viewing photos if you wish
  • The reports list can now be shown in the main sidebar, rather than a second list alongside the sidebar, giving more horizontal screen space for viewing reports
  • Operations such as merging, exporting, and copying are now pinned at the bottom of the sidebar, so they can no longer be scrolled out of view, making it more clear what operations are in progress.
  • The buttons for adding/removing libraries and opening Photos are now in a separate row just below the toolbar. This change also provided more room, so there are now also buttons to open a library in a separate window and reveal it in the Finder.

Other bug fixes and improvements

  • Fixed “Reveal in Photos” not working when viewing the main library album
  • Editing a saved search no longer autosaves changes on the existing search, instead prompting whether you want to save changes.
  • Renamed the “Date” subtitle option to “Date Captured” for consistency.
  • Fixed the “Add to Report” menu item appearing in the contextual menu when it wasn’t applicable.
  • Fixed a bug where the date property of a photo in AppleScript would be offset by the photo’s timezone.
  • Fixed a bug where exporting photos via AppleScript would run the export multiple times instead of once.
  • Fixed a bug where moving photos between libraries would copy them but not delete them from the source library.
  • Added the ability to save and restore presets for export settings.
  • Improved progress display during the early stages of an export operation.
  • Improved performance during the early stages of large export operations.
  • Improved progress display during preflight stage for large merges and copies.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when loading certain libraries.
  • Added icons to contextual menu items in the library list and album list.
  • We now show a warning when trying to merge a large number of libraries suggesting it be done in smaller batches.

PowerPhotos 3.3 is a free update for all registered PowerPhotos 3 users. You can download the latest version from the PowerPhotos website, or use the “Check For Updates” menu item if you already have PowerPhotos installed.


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