A script sorting images based on Exif-date into dated subdirectories, like Pictures/2023/09/2023-09-01/image.jpg.

Features:

• Crawls all subdirectories of the input-source, grabs exif-data from each file and copies it to a path based on the extracted date.
• If two files got the same name - compares the file contents and skips if its the same, adds a suffix if its not.
• If the date cant be decided - copies the file to a defined "no_date_dir" to be sorted manually.
• Optional guess argument, to run regex+dateformat on the "no_date_dir"
• Logs everything to a debug.log.

Dependencies:

• Python3
• Exifread (python module, install with eg. pip)

Settings:

Edit the settings.py and adjust:

input_path = "./Testing/Input"
output_path = "./Testing/Output"
file_types = (".jpeg", ".jpg", ".png", ".dng")
no_date_dir = "NoDate" # name of the directory to store images with no exif-date
unsortable_dir = "Unsortables" # name of the directory to store images that cant be guessed
date_separator = "-" # character to separate dates, eg. 2023-01-01 or 2023.01.01 DONT use slashes

To change the final subdirectory layout from /2023/09/2023-09-01/image.jpg to /2023/09/01/image.jpg edit this line:

# from /YYYY/MM/YYYY-MM-DD/image.jpg:
output_dir = os.path.join(output_path, date_list[0], date_list[1], date_stamp)
# to /YYYY/MM/DD/image.jpg:
output_dir = os.path.join(output_path, date_list[0], date_list[1], date_list[2])

Preferrably run it in a virtual environment:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate # See below for windows
pip install -r requirements.txt

Windows:

venv/Scripts/Activate.ps1 //Powershell
venv/Scripts/activate.bat //CMD

Run it with python3 media_datesort.py And the optional 2nd run with guess argument python3 media_datesort.py guess

TODO:

• Fix paths to work for Windows
• Fix so that guess will give info if "no_date_dir" is empty.
• Add more filetypes
• Make interactive date-format selection?