Photosorter is a little Python script to keep my photos from Dropbox organized.
It watches a source directory for modifications and moves new image files to a target directory depending on when the photo was taken, using EXIF data and creation date as a fallback. There is also an option to move existing photos.
Directory and file names follow a simple naming convention
(YYYY-MM/YYY_MM_DD/YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.ext) that keeps everything neatly
organized. Duplicates are detected and ignored based on their SHA1 hash and
folder path. Photos taken in the same instant get de-duplicated by adding a
suffix (-1, -2, etc) to their filenames.
The result looks somewhat like this::
├── 2013-01
│ ├── 2013_01_05
│ │ ├── 2013-01-05\ 13.24.45.jpg
│ │ ├── 2013-01-05\ 14.25.54.jpg
│ │ └── 2013-01-05\ 21.28.48-1.jpg
│ ├── 2013_01_06
│ │ ├── 2013-01-06\ 16.05.02.jpg
│ │ ├── 2013-01-06\ 19.59.25.jpg
│ │ ├── 2013-01-06\ 20.40.28.jpg
│ │ └── 2013-01-06\ 21.14.38.jpg
│ └── 2013_01_08
│ └── 2013-01-08\ 11.45.51.jpg
├── 2013-02
| └─ ...
├── ...
├── 2013-12
├── 2014-01
├── 2014-02
├── ...
├── 2014-12
├── ...
I use C:\Users\[windows username]\Dropbox\Camera Uploads as the source
directory and Z:\Photos as the target. This allows me to move my photo from
Dropbox to a local drive, and merge them with the rest of my photo collection.
Impletmentation Notes
I use a different folder set-up that Dan (in his original script) used. The one I’m using matches the default folder set-up for my Canon camera.
Installation
The easiest way to install the script is through pip::
pip install minchin.scripts.photosorter
Requirements
The script’s requirements will be automatically installed in the script is installed via pip as recommended above. They can also be installed manually, if required::
pip install argcomplete>=1.3.0
pip install exifread>=2.1.2
pip install watchdog>=0.8.3
Usage
Watch src_dir and sort incoming photos into dest_dir::
photosorter src_dir dest_dir
When you’re done with it, Ctrl + C will end the program.
If you also want to move the existing files in src_dir (which are, by
default, ignored)::
photosorter src_dir dest_dir --move-existing
Known Issues
- the tests do not currently run.
- matching (to provide de-duplication) is based on full filepaths matching. I.e. if the per day folder is renamed, the script will not look in the renamed folder for photo matches.
- Linux daemon setup is untested by myself.
Changes
2.1.0 — 2017-08-28
- also move MP4 files
- add changelog to readme
2.0.0 — 2017-08-27
- move to
minchin.scripts.photosorternamespace - do releases via
minchin.releaser - changed generated file folder layout
- add option to move existing files
License
Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE.txt for more information.
Credit
This script is a modified version of the one put together by Dan Bader. Thanks for providing a great template Dan!
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