I've been using an AppleScript to export photos in a Smart Album in Apple Photos for a while now. After upgrading to Catalina, it seems that my query for all albums no longer returns Smart Albums.
Specifically, I have a line that loads all albums like this:
tell Application Photos
set theseAlbums to every album
...
end tell
Previously, theseAlbums
would contain regular and smart albums. After upgrading to Catalina, they only contain the regular (non-smart) ones.
Is there anything I can do to query for smart albums? I looked at the Photos Dictionary and didn't see anything. I also tried changing every album
to every container
with no luck.
Here's the code in context - a helper function that finds an album by name:
on getAlbumNamed(thisName)
tell application "Photos"
set theseAlbums to every album
repeat with i from 1 to the count of theseAlbums
set thisAlbum to item i of theseAlbums
if the name of thisAlbum is thisName then
return thisAlbum
end if
end repeat
end tell
end getAlbumNamed
Thanks in advance for any help.