I've always liked the simplicity of iOS to take screenshots by pressing the power button and home at the same time. This feature works in any application and operating system iOS handles save captures in pictures reel device as PNG file without quality loss.
If you work as application analysts, bloggers or anything else that you may need these screenshots, you will know that, while making it very easy to catch, to "get them out" of the device you must connect it to a Mac or PC via USB . I do not know you, but having to be plugging the cord into the era of WiFi and cloud sync I do not seem practical.
Yes, I know that with iCloud automatically sync photos, but you need to open the Mac iPhoto or Aperture to access the photo gallery streaming, which, depending on how you have it configured, it may not be the best.
There must be a better way to spend these resource-intensive applications and get screenshots taken on the iPhone, iPad or iPod magically appear with a single click in the Finder on your Mac And yes, there is.
Recreation screenshots of your iOS device to your Mac automatically and quickly
The trick is to use the Photo Stream in iOS to get the screen shots automatically upload to iCloud and Mac arrive soon. From there, the Mac will use the features of Spotlight and Smart Folder to create a custom search query and put it in Finder.
As a result, just by clicking on this smart folder, we will be able to access a list of files collected from a special folder that OS X uses to synchronize all your stuff with iCloud.
Of course, to use the streaming photos you know you need an account iCloud, compatible devices and all software updated.
Started!
What we need
- An iOS device with iOS 5.1 or higher connected by WiFi.
- A Mac with OS X Lion v.10.7.5 or later and iPhoto 9.2.2 or Aperture 3.2.3 or higher.
- An iCloud account.
Necessary steps
- Enable Photo Stream on your Mac and iOS device.
- Navigate to the folder of iCloud Photo Stream on your Mac
- Create a smart folder to search only the images of iOS and fix the Finder sidebar.
Step 1 - Enable Photo Stream on your device
First we set photos streaming on all computers and iOS devices in which we want to have the photos uploaded to iCloud. Let's see how.
Enable Photo Stream on your iOS device
On your iOS device, go to Settings> iCloud> Photo Stream. Turns My Photos on streaming. Already activated.
If you do this, your iOS device will automatically upload photos added to film in all iOS devices and your Mac authorized iCloud account.
Enable streaming photos on your Mac
On the Mac, go to System Preferences. Click on iCloud and click "Options" in the streaming of photos.
You must check the "My Photo Stream."
If you have iOS 6 and OS X Lion Mountain v.10.8.2 or later, if you want you can activate "streaming sequences shared photos" photo sharing individually with other users, but for this tutorial is not necessary to activate it.
It is also important that, although the photos streaming function works on both WiFi and mobile data, seleccionéis not go up the photos and screenshots when connected to the mobile network, because if you do a lot of data consumiréis.
Step 2 - Navigate to the folder of iCloud Photo Stream on your Mac
Assets iCloud synchronization are buried deep in the library folder of our user account. But Apple, with OS X Lion, hid the folder to prevent tampering, but that does not stop us still access it with a single keystroke.
On the desktop or Finder window, hold down the Option key and click Go Choose Library from the menu.
This will open a Finder window showing the contents of the library folder.
Go to Application Support> iLifeAssetManagement> assets> sub. You should see a series of folders with lots of numbers and letters. Each of these folders contains a downloaded image from gallery iCloud.
The Mac automatically creates these folders for any new picture or image taken from an iOS device with Photo Stream enabled.
If you have just enabled streaming photos on your iOS device, the folder "sub" does not exist yet. Simply you do a screenshot of your iOS device and wait for the update in iCloud. At the time shown on your Mac the folder "sub".
Step 3 - Create a smart folder
Smart Folders in OS X behave like smart playlists in iTunes. With your Mac collects these files and folders based on established criteria. The smart folder also updated in real time while changing files on the Mac
Show the toolbar
With the Finder window in the "sub", select "Show Toolbar" in the "Display" (if you had not already active). This will give you access to the search field at the top right of the window.
Search PNG
In the search box, type "image" and select Portable Network Graphic (PNG) under the option class. You will see that the content of the window has changed and now shows a list of image files to the folder nested "sub".
Make sure the folder "sub" is selected before searching, as in the screenshot above.
Save your smart folder
Press Enter on your keyboard.
Portable Network Graphics will appear with a blue sign into the search field. Click the "Save" button to save the smart folder we created.
Before storing, make sure you have marked the "sub" in the upper part, where it says "Search", and "This Mac" or "share" (this is a common misconception).
In the popup window, put the name you want for this new smart folder. Leave the option "Add to Sidebar" and click the "Save" button.
We got him! Now your Finder displays a new smart folder in the sidebar.
This will give you a convenient one-click access to the special folder that has all the screenshots from iOS devices to your Mac recovers from iCloud.
Convenient, no?. This method works most of the time, although it is a "home remedy", so it could be a case of finding some problems.
Problems and possible solutions
Some people make a common mistake and spoil your criteria of the smart folder to verify that the folder is not "sub" is selected before searching. Others forget to verify that the "sub" is selected as the search field before you save your smart folder.
If you have any problems with the function streaming photos in your Mac, try restoring photos streaming iCloud.com entering and clicking Advanced> Reset Photo Stream.
Another thing: you can that you may need to install iPhoto 9.2 or Aperture 3.2 or higher on your system. But even if this is your case, you would not be required to establish Photos in streaming applications either. The main purpose of this tutorial is that you have direct access to these photos avoiding drag images from Aperture to your iPhone or desktop to have them on the Mac
We can confirm that this trick works without iPhoto or Aperture or on a MacBook Air with Mountain Lion 10.8.2.
However, we have heard from some people that this trick will work at random: sometimes they worked smoothly but sometimes its not smart folder was all screenshots of iOS devices, even though these images were nested in sub-folders within the folder "sub".
This problem seems to only occur in some installations Mountain Lion 10.8.2, so if some expert in OS X wants to review it and give us the solution, will be welcome. No idea if this problem occurs in other versions of OS X.
And, of course, touch anything discourage the iCloud folder sync with your Mac beyond searching it. If you change a file name in iCloud sync is more than possible that you may never edit the original in other applications. If you need to change some of the images in sync, do not do it directly in the "sub", back anywhere and work on copies.
We are not responsible for synchronization problems that may occur if you do ignore our advice. If you have any questions or want to clarify something, you just have to leave your comment.
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