Mass remove live photo videos
By Anatoly Mironov
While importing images from my iPhone using Image Capture on my mac, I discovered that almost all pictures had corresponding videos. They had the same name, only the file extension was different:
- IMG_2829.JPG
- IMG_2829.MOV
For archiving I don’t to have live photo videos, that’s why I needed a script for that. I found a good start in an answer on SuperUser.stackexchange.com:
I altered it a bit to remove the corresponding .MOV-file (rm):
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| find . -type f -name "*.JPG" | \ | |
| while read -r f;do [ -e "${f%.JPG}.MOV" ] && rm "${f%.JPG}.MOV";done |