Access streaming photos from the Finder

Many are the users who daily make use of the streaming service that Apple offers for photos they take out with their mobile devices. As you know, the moment a user takes a photo, if they have the streaming photos service activated on iOS, it is automatically synchronized with the cloud.

Furthermore, if the user has a Mac and the iPhoto application also has this feature activated, the following will automatically appear. streaming photos taken out. All this, as long as the device that takes the photo is on Wi-Fi and has at least 20 percent battery. Otherwise, the synchronization will wait for the described conditions to occur.

Well, today's article is going to be dedicated to all those users who They see a bit confusing having to be entering iPhoto to obtain a certain photo within OS X. As a copywriter, I take a lot of screenshots on my iPhone and iPad that go directly to photo streaming. For me it is a very fast way to have the photos available on the Mac. However, I find it cumbersome to have to be opening iPhoto and then wait for the streaming photos that I need to enter.

Next, we will explain how to access streaming photos without iPhoto. The steps you must follow are the following:

• Ate that we have nothing to verify that We have activated the Photos option in the iCloud Preferences panel, which is within System Preferences.

• As soon as this option is activated, the photos in streaming will already be downloaded to the computer automatically.

• Now, what we want is to know what is the path of the folder where those photos are saved. The path of that folder is Our user folder / Library / Application Support / iLifeAssetManagement / Assests / sub

There is another way to automatically access this mask and it is through iPhoto, for which we must activate the use of iCloud and then go to the section of Shared> iCloud and select one of the photos that are streaming. Now we go to the File menu> Show in Finder> Original file, after which the folder in question is opened.

• The file shown is inside a folder with a name made up of letters and numbers. A folder of many that are located inside the sub folder, which is the one that interests us.

• To finish the process, as in the sub folder we have countless folders and we do not know which photo we want is in, we have to make use of a smart folder to sort existing forums. To do this, we are going to go to the File menu in the Finder and we create a smart mask, after which a Finder window opens.

• To finish we must assign the search criteria, which in this case will be, search only in sub, add a new criterion and select Class and Images and save.

It may be the case that when we go to the folder that we have created we do not see all the photos in streaming that we know we have. In this case, we must go to System Preferences, enter the Spotlight item and click on the Privacy tab. Next we go to the sub folder, we drag and drop it in the window. Finally, we select the sub folder and delete it, so Spotlight indexes it again and the photos will appear.

As you can see, it is a very simple way to have streaming photos accessible without having to open iPhoto to carry out the process. Now paint hands to work and create your smart mask of streaming photos and forget about having to wait longer for a program to show them to you.