Photos.app doesn't show file size… so I thought, why not build a little Photos.app extension or a separate app that queries for large files?
Turns out that the API doesn't expose "file size", at least I didn't find a straight-forward way.
I think that all "photos" or "videos" are just a view of the underlying "photo or video object". If you crop a video, the full-size video will remain. Only if you export the video, it will be cropped and the smaller file size will manifest.
Turns out that the API doesn't expose "file size", at least I didn't find a straight-forward way.
I think that all "photos" or "videos" are just a view of the underlying "photo or video object". If you crop a video, the full-size video will remain. Only if you export the video, it will be cropped and the smaller file size will manifest.
I guess that's why the file sizes differ.
[Edit: someone created an AppleScript to query file sizes - I didn't test it, yet: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250000422 ]