More reliable export history, clearer recovery from interrupted backups, and previews and progress that stay in step with your Photos library. • Preserve backup progress through interruptions Export history is better protected if an export is interrupted or cancelled while a photo is being saved. Choosing Export Month for a paused month resumes it, along with any other months waiting to export. Import Existing Backup keeps your progress if checking the backup fails, explains how to recover when history can't be read, and no longer keeps scanning in the background after you cancel it. • See accurate results and actionable export issues Progress and history follow the destination and album you're viewing. Manual exports report how they went, and export issues name the affected photo and its date when available. If the backup folder stops accepting files, the export stops and explains how to fix it. • Keep previews and selections current Thumbnails and the large preview update after you edit in Photos. While your library refreshes, sidebar counts stay visible and grid and folder selections keep the items that are still there. • Keep Auto Export work safe for retry Changes in your Photos library during an export are picked up on the next run. Turning Auto Export off stops an automatic export in progress; the rest exports the next time Auto Export runs. • Recover more clearly when a destination is unavailable Missing, read-only and inaccessible backup folders get clearer explanations and recovery actions.

What's new: - Improved backup scanner and stable destination id

What's new: - Onboarding screen should now have a normal size every time.

What's new: - If you have like billion images at Favorites, thumbnails might have never loaded. Now they might load.

What's new - Fix memory hogging issue. Less beachballs. Some beachballs remain but the app won't crash. (Future work reduces beachballing more)

Live Photos and videos get more control on disk. • Export Live Photos as paired image + video. Optional toggle in Settings → Advanced. When on, the paired .MOV is written next to the still (e.g. IMG_0001.HEIC + IMG_0001.MOV). Off by default — each paired video is typically 1–3 MB, so Live-Photo-heavy libraries roughly double in size when this is on. • Separate videos into a subfolder. Optional toggle in Settings → Advanced → Organization. Routes standalone videos into a videos/ subfolder inside their placement, so a backup doesn't mix .JPG and .MOV files together. The paired video of a Live Photo is an exception — it stays next to its still so the still + motion pair stays intact. Both are off by default. Applies to new exports only; your existing backup folder and exported files are untouched. Plus a fix for a brief CPU spike when iCloud delivered a flurry of library changes at once.

• Convert HEIC to JPEG on export — a new optional toggle in Settings → Advanced re-encodes HEIC captures as JPEG. Perfect for destinations that don't understand HEIC (NAS, Windows PC, older photo viewers). Off by default; non-HEIC photos are unaffected. • Format options have a new home in Settings → Advanced, with full descriptions of each setting. A Settings cog in the toolbar opens it in one click. • The "Export All" / "Export All Albums" toolbar button is back when a single sidebar item is selected. Per-pane buttons still handle single-month / single-album exports. • Sharper month and folder tile thumbnails.

1.4.1 fixes a launch hang affecting macOS 15.7 and later — especially noticeable after a long gap between launches, when iCloud Photos has lots of recent activity to catch up on, or when the previous backup destination is on a network drive that isn't currently reachable. Photo Export now stays responsive while it brings itself up to date with your library in the background, instead of holding the window during that initial check. Settings → Auto Export now also shows a "Last library check" line so you can see how long the most recent scan took. Thanks to everyone who reported the issue and helped test the fix.

What's New • iCloud Shared Albums now appear in Collections and can be exported (subject to Apple's downscaled-JPEG limitation for shared photos). • Multi-select in the sidebar with Cmd-click / Shift-click — mix years, months, albums, and folders in one run. • Selecting a year opens a Photos.app-style grid of month tiles with cover thumbnails and per-month export status. • Auto Export now catches up automatically in long sessions where Photos.app isn't running. Settings → Auto Export shows a Last updated indicator. • Cancel during a run also disables Auto Export so it doesn't restart on its own. The in-pane Export buttons now show the same supersede confirmation as the toolbar.

Auto Export — set it once, forget it. Pick Timeline, Favorites, or Albums in Settings → Auto Export and Photo Export keeps your destination current as new photos land in Apple Photos. Off by default; transient failures retry automatically; persistent ones show up in Export Issues with a Retry button. Folder export — Photos folders are now first-class targets. Select a folder in the Collections sidebar and one click exports every album under it. Cmd-click album tiles to pick an explicit subset; Shift-click to extend a range; Cmd+A to select all. Cleaner toolbar — Export All is now the visually dominant action and bound to Cmd+E. The destination indicator is one click — tap the folder name to change it. Include originals moved into a Format menu so the toolbar stops competing with itself. Plus smaller fixes and polish across export tracking, sidebar status badges, and the Settings window. Existing destinations and exported files are untouched on upgrade.

** What's New: Small fixes and improvements ** - **Export All Albums**: a single button on the Collections tab queues every album at once. - **Save Diagnostic Report**: a new Help menu action writes a plain-text report of any failing or stuck exports — handy for filing GitHub issues. - **Improved backup**: when Photos can't hand over an edited version of a photo or video, the app now writes the original as a `_orig` companion so the asset is backed up instead of being retried forever. - **Smarter Import Existing Backup**: rebuilding state from disk now also prunes records for files you've deleted, so the count always reflects what's actually on the drive. - **Burst-photo fixes**: imports correctly tell apart bursts that share a base filename. - **Reliable pause and cancel**: the buttons now respond immediately, even while a large export is still being queued.

NEW — Collections export Back up Favorites and any album from Photos, alongside the year/month Timeline. Albums under folders keep their hierarchy on disk (Collections/Albums/Trips/Iceland). Each album shows its own export progress and completion state in the sidebar. When a photo lives in both the Timeline and an album, exporting the album clones the existing file on disk instead of re-fetching from Photos — fast, and on APFS drives it uses no extra space.

### Edited photos, beautifully handled. Every photo now exports the way Photos shows it to you — your edits, your crops, your adjustments — at the original filename. Turn on the new **Include originals** toggle in the toolbar to also keep a `_orig` companion with the untouched original bytes. Perfect for RAW backups. **Refinements** - Cleaner toolbar: Destination block on the left, button-style Include originals toggle, Export All on the right. - Sidebar progress is mode-agnostic and counts what you'd expect — assets, not files. - Onboarding swaps its segmented picker for a simple "Include originals for edited photos" checkbox. - Import Existing Backup now round-trips edited photos and their `_orig` companions losslessly. **Under the hood** - Strict, asset-aware completion checks — adjusted assets stay incomplete until both required variants are written. - Pair-aware backup scanner so include-originals exports import without ambiguity.