I’m looking for a way to copy images to MacOS Photos App. I know this is probably a rather complex operation, but I also know that there are some die-hard Emacs users out there who use Mac every day. 🍎 So I’m curious if this is possible? Is there a package? I can’t seem to find one.

I’m just looking for a way to send images via dired directly to MacOS library at the very least. Since I use dirvish to go through photo sets/collections (Color-tagging them with dired-delight), and I find it to be so much faster to do with dired than with a GUI, I’m just hoping that it’s possible for emacs to take me “the next step” to moving the marked ones to the photos libraries I have for MacOS. So, any feedback is welcome! thx! 🙃

  • xenodiumBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    As a macOS user, I typically glue these dired things via dwim-shell-command (disclosure, I wrote that).

    Not super tested, but I added dwim-shell-commands-macos-add-to-photos to dwim-shell-commands.el (the optional part of the package).

    (defun dwim-shell-commands-macos-add-to-photos ()
  "Add to Photos.app."
  (interactive)
  (dwim-shell-command-on-marked-files
   "Add to Photos.app"
   "osascript <>\"
  end tell
EOF"
   :silent-success t
   :utils "osascript"
   :on-completion (lambda (buffer process)
                    (if-let ((success (= (process-exit-status process) 0)))
                        (start-process "Open Photos" nil "open" "-a" "Photos")
                      (switch-to-buffer buffer)))))
    1. Select 1 or multiple photos from dired
    2. M-x dwim-shell-commands-macos-add-to-photos

    ps. This also works on current buffer if you’re viewing an image in a buffer.