Finding All The Pictures Stored On Your Mac: A Simple Guide

Probably almost every modern person can’t imagine his life without a laptop. Technologies have integrated into our lives so deeply that now it seems impossible to survive without them.

On our computers, we store lots of information. This often includes documents, important files, and thousands of photos. While the first two things are normally quite organized, not many people have enough time for sorting out tons of images. Instead, most people upload more and more images to their computers until they become cluttered with hundreds of folders scattered here and there. How in this case can you possibly find a photo you need? That might be a challenge! Especially if you are an owner of a Mac device, which, as a rule, are less intuitive in use than laptops with other operating systems.

So, where are photos stored on Mac and how to find all of them? In this article, we have prepared a detailed guide to help you find a solution!

Simple Way To Find All Your Images

Probably, the easiest way to keep your images well organized is to sort them out right when you copy them to your PC. However, hardly anyone does that. Thus, below is a simple guide on how to find all the photos you have stored on your Mac.

The simplest way to find anything on your computer is to use Finder. Here is how you can find all the photos with the help of this searching tool:

  1. Launch a new search window by pressing Cmd + Option + Space
  2. When the window pops up, find a “+” sign in the top right corner and click on it
  3. To find all of your images in a single search, hold Option and the + button and change the criteria of search to “…”
  4. When you press on the ellipsis, this will change the requirements to files that satisfy your search request to Any – you need to leave it like that
  5. Under Any, choose the type of files you will be looking for (the needed option is Image, JPEG)
  6. Then click the plus button again to create a field with the following characteristics – Kind, Image, TIFF (you can repeat this step for other image formats like PNG or GIF if you have any of those)
  7. You can save the changes you’ve applied if you would like to use the same criteria of search in the future
  8. By this point, the system should already give you a bunch of search results, so now you need to choose a destination where you want to have all your images copied
  9. Then go to the File section and pick Select All option or just press Command-A to do it faster
  10. Move the selected images to the chosen destination

Are There Alternative Methods To Find Your Photos?

The method described above isn’t your only option. If you find it too time-consuming or complicated, you can go the other way and use special tools for organizing your images. In the App Store, you can find quite many applications that will work for this purpose. Most of them are paid, but the price shouldn’t be too high. Such software will help to find and to organize your images much faster and less stressful!