[AKcrab]

I have a client with an extremely broken iPhoto library. All attempts at rebuilding the database fail. We would like to somehow extract all photos from the "Originals" folders. This is iPhoto v5, so there are like 40 "originals" folders.

I'm thinking there must be a way to use the 'find' command to locate all .jpg files in 'originals'. Something along the lines of this:

find /Users/francine/Ttest -name *.png -exec cp '{}' /Users/francine/Desktop/screens/ \;

finds all files with the extension ".png" in the folder Ttest and its sub-folders and copies them to the folder "screens"

[Chuckit]

Something like:

[codex]find "/path/to/iPhoto Library" -path "*/Originals/*" -name "*.jpg"[/codex]

The -exec cp and all that is exactly the same.

[AKcrab]

Worked like a charm. 8K photos recovered.

Thanks Chuckit.

[besson3c]

If you want the search to include png and gif images too:

Code:
find "/path/to/iPhoto Library" -path "*/Originals/*" -regex ".*?\.(jpg|png|gif)"

ought to work...