Description

SortPhotos is a Python script that organizes photos into folders by date and/or time (year, year/month, year/month/day, or other custom formats). If you're like me then your growing collection of files are contained in a bunch of folders, some with a date like "Sep 2010", and others which names like "Camping Trip". SortPhotos takes this collection of folders and files and reorganizes them into a hierarchy of folders by almost any custom date/time format (by default it is by year then month). It will work with any file, but works best with image and video files that contain EXIF or other metadata formats because that stays with the file even if the files are modified. The script is also useful for transferring files from your camera into your collection of nicely organized photos. Note: Due to the use of ExifTool software, a Perl interpreter shall be available in the running environment.

Download

Find the lastest version here: https://github.com/arcadien/sortphotos

Usage

SortPhotos is intended to be used primarily from the command line. To see all the options, invoke help

python sortphotos.py -h

The simplest usage is to specify a source directory (the directory where your mess of files is currently located) and a destination directory (where you want the files and directories to go). By default the source directory it is not searched recursively but that can changed with a flag as discussed below.

python sortphotos.py /Users/Me/MessyDirectory /Users/Me/Pictures

Options

positional arguments:
  src_dir               source directory
  dest_dir              destination directory

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c, --copy            copy files instead of move
  -t, --test            run a test.  files will not be moved/copied
                        instead you will just a list of would happen
  --sort SORT           choose destination folder structure using datetime format 
                        https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior. 
                        Use forward slashes / to indicate subdirectory(ies) (independent of your OS convention). 
                        The default is '%Y/%m-%b', which separates by year then month 
                        with both the month number and name (e.g., 2012/02-Feb).
  --ignore-file-types IGNORE_FILE_TYPES [IGNORE_FILE_TYPES ...]
                        ignore file type. Default is to only ignore hidden files (.*)

Output

Symbol meaning in output:

• .: new file added in collection
• +: duplicate detected
• -: file copied
• #: file moved
• ~: file skipped (target exists)