1) Is there a way to sort photos by size in the entire album? Even WinBlows has this feature.
2) Is there a way to just have images without 4-10mb extra data? I say this because I had a large pic, about 8mb. I edited it/cropped, and made it about 1/4 of the image size, HOWEVER the file size did not change at all. We know extra data is added on using the generic "metadata" excuse, but there's no reason it should be so large for such a small file if it's just date/time, etc... On a different forum some users speculated that the data is being used by Apple for other purposes. Frankly, even though Apple has changed dramatically in the last 20 years, I'm a wee bit skeptical of that one. NOTE: If you're an Apple fanboy and you want to troll me, don't bother. I've been using Apple devices for MANY years. I even have the first Mac somewhere, and many many old iPhones/iPads. I used to love the OS and now see many changes I think aren't necessarily the greatest like not being able to just make a bootable clone with a script for almost-instant recovery, or not being able to synch music anymore across multiple devices w/o paying an extra $10 per mo. At any rate, if you don't like my question, don't answer unless you actually HAVE an answer to my question.
NOTE: Yes there's a way to reduce extra data by emailing the photo to yourself, but I have thousands and that would take a bit of time, as well as add'l storage to store/process the emails.
Thanks in advance for any help!
2) Is there a way to just have images without 4-10mb extra data? I say this because I had a large pic, about 8mb. I edited it/cropped, and made it about 1/4 of the image size, HOWEVER the file size did not change at all. We know extra data is added on using the generic "metadata" excuse, but there's no reason it should be so large for such a small file if it's just date/time, etc... On a different forum some users speculated that the data is being used by Apple for other purposes. Frankly, even though Apple has changed dramatically in the last 20 years, I'm a wee bit skeptical of that one. NOTE: If you're an Apple fanboy and you want to troll me, don't bother. I've been using Apple devices for MANY years. I even have the first Mac somewhere, and many many old iPhones/iPads. I used to love the OS and now see many changes I think aren't necessarily the greatest like not being able to just make a bootable clone with a script for almost-instant recovery, or not being able to synch music anymore across multiple devices w/o paying an extra $10 per mo. At any rate, if you don't like my question, don't answer unless you actually HAVE an answer to my question.
NOTE: Yes there's a way to reduce extra data by emailing the photo to yourself, but I have thousands and that would take a bit of time, as well as add'l storage to store/process the emails.
Thanks in advance for any help!
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