Automatically Copy iCloud Photo Stream Images to a Folder

If you want to use iCloud Photo Stream but don't want to use iPhoto, check out this script by DJF3 that will let you skip the application altogether.

Looking for a solution I found that iPhoto stores its pictures in a specific location and the Photo Stream is updated even if iPhoto is not running. The goal was to create a script that copies all of the images from many sub-directories into a single folder.

To use the script, open Open AppleScript Editor and paste in the following:


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tell application "Finder"
set this_folder to "Macintosh HD:Users:user:Library:Application Support:iLifeAssetManagement:assets" as alias
set target_folder to "Macintosh HD:Users:user:Pictures:MyStream" as alias
try
duplicate (every file of the entire contents of this_folder whose name contains "IMG") to the target_folder with replacing
end try
end tell
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Remember you will have to change the target_folder to the path you'd like the photos copied to. Clicking the Run button in ActionScript Editor should start the copy.

Windows users can use the iCloud Control Panel to set a folder for Photo Stream files.

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