Christian Schröter

»So does that mean you have solved the problem & this works for you now?« No … it does not. It’s way too slow, doesn’t work with subfolders properly and can’t handle that much files … because it’s not a real batch concept … I have a very other solution on another level of the given problem (as described), but that takes time and is much work …

It’s way too much to write it all down … each App has a specific problem why it doesn’t work … they’re on a local drive …

Well … someone told me so … but which application is suitable? I’ve tested some … nothing works …

By the way: the problem with the inactive button was, that I did not recognize, that Affinity Photo has to »authorize« itself at the target volume … I’ve never seen something like that …

Okay, thank you. Now … the conversion is very, very slow. It’s not a real batch conversion … it imports all metadata, filenames and paths and thumbnails first … in a batch conversion I would define rules and then apply them to e. g. a folder … I have about 100.000 or more files in that folder and its subfolders … after half an hour of waiting I’ve killed the task … seemingly the finder can’t cope with this amount of files … Maybe i’ll have to convert each subfolder for itself … The task is: I have an archive with print magazine data from 20 years and I want to convert all high quality separated JPEGs (CMYK) to RGB with highest compression (lowest quality) for I won’t ever need them again, I just want to see SOMETHING … to reduce storage capacity … Sorry for my bad English … hopefully it’s understandable …

Does batch conversion from Affinity Photo work in trial mode? Ive set up everything correctly … but the button to start conversion is inactive. I have to try it out before buying it …