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1. trynumber9 ◴[06 Nov 24 08:28 UTC] No.42058084[source]▶

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2. janandonly ◴[06 Nov 24 09:32 UTC] No.42058625[source]▶

>>42058084 (TP) #

I have thousands of old photos that preview can open, but I can’t upload them into the photo.app because the file format is wrong. I’m going to try and use SIPS to convert them all into png first and then add to photo.app. Thanks for this pointer.

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3. yen223 ◴[06 Nov 24 12:57 UTC] No.42061558[source]▶

>>42058084 (TP) #

sips looks really cool, thanks for pointing this out.

Not gonna lie, I missed this because I thought it was related to macOS SIP, System Integrity Protection. Which is something I am deeply uninterested in.

4. jftuga ◴[06 Nov 24 13:56 UTC] No.42062327[source]▶

>>42058084 (TP) #

Nice. After reading the man page, I see that it can be used to convert image file formats:

    sips -s format png photo.HEIC --out photo.png

or resizing:

    sips -z 300 600 original.jpg --out new.jpg

5. FabHK ◴[06 Nov 24 16:10 UTC] No.42064444[source]▶

>>42058625 #

Similarly, I've had trouble getting audio files into a format that the Books app understands (for ebooks), until I found

   afconvert -v -s 3 -f m4bf filename.mp3

6. hk1337 ◴[06 Nov 24 18:26 UTC] No.42066864[source]▶

>>42058084 (TP) #

That's cool. I wish it could convert webp images.

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Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities