OK... Her e is the full story and maybe this will help everyone understand what I'm trying to accomplish. I have a windows drive that crashed and I’m trying to recover just the photos. If I drag and drop the drive into iPhoto, it imports every little icon. This would work for me if I could specify a minimum file size. I thought a good way to get this accomplished was via the terminal with a find command but if there is an easier way… I’ll do that. Thanks
Find /drive –size 1M –exec cp –v /new folder
There are probably some on this Forum who can tell you a neat command line way to do it. I'm not one of them. I don't know of any non-cludgy ways to do this . . . but here is a cludgy way to take care of the issue.
I am assuming you didn't import all those files but you do have an existing iphoto library that you don't want to mess up. If this isn't the case it will change slightly this procedure.
1) Change the name of your existing iPhoto library to something easy to find and remember. (Do this with Finder while iPhoto isn't running)
2) Start iPhoto. It will discover you don't have an iPhoto Library and offer to create one. Let it.
3) Do the drag and drop thing and import from your windows drive.
4) Create a new Folder on your desktop
5) Drag or export all of the newly imported files into this new Folder
6) Exit iPhoto
7) Have Finder sort the files (images) in your new Folder by size then select and delete all of the trash files (Windows GIFs etc) leaving behind the pictures you care about
8) Delete the iPhoto Library in Finder that you used for the transfer from your windows drive
9) Rename your old iPhoto Library back to iPhoto Library and relaunch iPhoto
10) Drag and drop the Folder containing your sorted and screened photos onto iPhoto and let it import them
11) Trash the Folder, empty the Trash and you are done
Again, this is cludgy, but it does work.