A script to archive photos off a camera or directory to a directory named by file date.
It will prefer to use the EXIF date in the file. If not present it will skip file unless the flag -x no
(do not skip files without EXIF date) is passed in which case it will use file system creation date. All operations
are logged into the target directory in a text file.
Just run:
1. Clone down the repo, or just download `photocopy.py`
2. pip install docopt
3. pip install hachoir
4. Then execute the script using python.
You're ready to use it!
Photocopy recursively reads the EXIF data from images and other file types (see below) in source directory and copies the files to a specified target directory with subdirectories for the creation dates of the files. It does not rename files. A use case is that you have an SD card from your camera, or a folder from a remote syncing service, and want to copy all the images/videos into specific directories by day.
You run it with:
./photocopy.py /media/sdcard/ /home/user/Photos/
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Simple. Copy jpg or JPG files from source (Z:\photosync) to target into folders named YYYY_MM_DD using the EXIF Creation Date in the JPG files. Ignore files without EXIF date, but log everything.
python photocopy.py -j jpg Z:\photosync target/ -
More complex. Move (-m yes) files by extensions (-j gif,png,jpg,mov,mp4) shown from source (Z:\photosync) to target into folders
named YYYY_MM_DD using the EXIF Creation Date in the files. File without EXIF date will use the file system creation date (-x no -- means do not skip) to name target folders. Log everything.python photocopy.py -m yes -x no -j gif,png,jpg,mov,mp4 Z:\photosync target/
and it will copy the photos to directories called "2014_03_12" by default. See the source file for more examples.
This version of photocopy uses the https://pypi.org/project/hachoir/ software to extract EXIF metadata. Hachoir supports the following file formats as of version 3.1.3 in February 2021.
- bzip2: bzip2 archive
- cab: Microsoft Cabinet archive
- gzip: gzip archive
- mar: Microsoft Archive
- tar: TAR archive
- zip: ZIP archive
- aiff: Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF)
- mpeg_audio: MPEG audio version 1, 2, 2.5
- real_audio: Real audio (.ra)
- sun_next_snd: Sun/NeXT audio
- matroska: Matroska multimedia container
- ogg: Ogg multimedia container
- real_media: !RealMedia (rm) Container File
- riff: Microsoft RIFF container
- bmp: Microsoft bitmap (BMP) picture
- gif: GIF picture
- ico: Microsoft Windows icon or cursor
- jpeg: JPEG picture
- pcx: PC Paintbrush (PCX) picture
- png: Portable Network Graphics (PNG) picture
- psd: Photoshop (PSD) picture
- targa: Truevision Targa Graphic (TGA)
- tiff: TIFF picture
- wmf: Microsoft Windows Metafile (WMF)
- xcf: Gimp (XCF) picture
- ole2: Microsoft Office document
- pcf: X11 Portable Compiled Font (pcf)
- torrent: Torrent metainfo file
- ttf: !TrueType font
- exe: Microsoft Windows Portable Executable
- asf: Advanced Streaming Format (ASF), used for WMV (video) and WMA (audio)
- flv: Macromedia Flash video
- mov: Apple !QuickTime movie
- mp4: [seems to work too]