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• janandonly 2y ago
  I have thousands of old photos that preview can open, but I can’t upload them into the photo.app because the file format is wrong. I’m going to try and use SIPS to convert them all into png first and then add to photo.app. Thanks for this pointer.
  • FabHK 2y ago
    Similarly, I've had trouble getting audio files into a format that the Books app understands (for ebooks), until I found afconvert -v -s 3 -f m4bf filename.mp3
• yen223 2y ago
  sips looks really cool, thanks for pointing this out. Not gonna lie, I missed this because I thought it was related to macOS SIP, System Integrity Protection. Which is something I am deeply uninterested in.
• jftuga 2y ago
  Nice. After reading the man page, I see that it can be used to convert image file formats: sips -s format png photo.HEIC --out photo.png or resizing: sips -z 300 600 original.jpg --out new.jpg
• hk1337 2y ago
  That's cool. I wish it could convert webp images.
  • latexr 2y ago
    It can, but only from webp, not to.