Batch Revert Photos

[purdnost]

Is there a way to batch revert all the photos in my Photos library to their original states? I’m guessing it’s a no for mobile devices, but what about Photos on Mac?

 

[cupcakes2000]

Probably a rare use case! Why, if I can ask? I have 10k plus photos.. can’t think of a use case I would need to revert them all.

 

[purdnost]

I want to back them up to Adobe Creative Cloud as unedited originals. If I back them up as-is, any edits will be permanent.

 

[kenoh]

Can you not go into the finder, locate the location of your photos library, go inside and find the folder named masters - these are the original copies. Sorry I havent really used photos (I moved from Aperture to Adobe years ago).

I assume it is the same file structure underneath. So when you see the masters folder, copy that into Adobe.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

You can export all your photos as unmodified originals using the export command on MacOS Photos. If you have a lot of photos, it's going to take a while, but that's how I'd attempt to do it. Might want to do it in batches, because you may run into errors, and that way you don't have to restart the entire process each time, or try to figure out where it failed and have to go and manage duplicates and the like.

 

[purdnost]

Can you not go into the finder, locate the location of your photos library, go inside and find the folder named masters - these are the original copies. Sorry I havent really used photos (I moved from Aperture to Adobe years ago).

I assume it is the same file structure underneath. So when you see the masters folder, copy that into Adobe.

Yes, you’re right. I’ll need to sync the photos to the desktop app in order to do that. I tried uploading directly from my iPad, which was the problem.