Recipe · Organize
Move photos and videos out of Downloads into one folder
Omaculate moves every image and video in Downloads, including AirDropped HEIC photos and MOV clips, into a Photos and Videos folder.
Why it helps
AirDrop saves straight to Downloads, so family photos end up between bank PDFs and installers.
What it matches
- Images: HEIC, JPG, PNG, GIF, RAW and others
- Videos: MOV, MP4 and others
What it leaves alone
- Screenshots on the Desktop (a separate recipe)
- Audio files
- Photos still arriving over AirDrop
An image or video in Downloads is moved to Downloads/Photos and Videos.
Set it up in Omaculate
- Open Omaculate from the menu bar and go to Recipes.
- Under Suggested, choose Photos and videos. It's ready to save, on Downloads.
- Look over the files it would touch, then press Save.
- Press Tidy now, check the list, and approve it.
Change anything by tapping its words, for example: move them into Pictures instead (no extra permission needed); rAW photos apart from the rest; a folder per month.
Or by hand: sort Downloads by kind in Finder
- Open Downloads and choose View › Use Groups, then View › Group By › Kind.
- Select the Images and Movies groups, and drag them into a new folder.
Questions
Where do AirDropped photos go on a Mac?
Into the Downloads folder. Omaculate can gather them from there into a folder of their own.
Can the photos go to my Pictures folder?
Yes. Pick Pictures as the destination in the recipe. Pictures, Movies and Music can be chosen without a separate folder prompt.
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