August 2019 • Macworld 47REVIEWPicktorial; you perform a search, right-click Last
Search in the Library panel, choose Duplicate, and
rename the saved search. If you want to change the
parameters of that smart album, you need to adjust
the terms in the Search field and resave it as a new
search. The capability is there, but you wouldn’t
know it unless you’re looking for it; at the time of
this review, there’s no mention of the feature in
the application’s documentation.
Other aspects of searching can be frustrating.
You can search only one folder at a time, and the
location is defined separately from the Search field.
For example, I’m not able to find all 3-star photos
in my ‘Picktorial Local’ and ‘Picktorial NAS’ test
folders. The alternative in that case is to perform
the search in all of my folders, but that would
include too many sources.
I’d also like the ability to remove the default
Pictures folder in my home directory (~/Pictures)
from the Folders list, since that’s such a catch-all
for other images that aren’t part of my photo library
(especially if you have photo libraries for several
applications, as I do). I suspect Pictures is there to
ensure that Picktorial has a starting place to build,
but with its flexibility to include other folders, even
on NAS devices, it should be possible to remove
or hide the Pictures folder contents.
While we’re on the topic of folders, I desperately
want Pictorial to be able to display the photos from
all nested folders. As it is now, if my photos are
organized in the Finder by a date hierarchy, I click a
‘2019’ folder and see only more folders for ‘2019-01-