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

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

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

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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

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Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities