Importing photos sucks. I used to use iPhoto, which does dupe detection, organizes by exif dates and all sorts of other things.
Apple can go fuck theirselves. iPhotos is salty garbage. Using iPhotos on a network share is just downright ludicrous.
Instead, this dodgy little (completely untested) ruby script is clearly more trustworthy.
# Install brew stuff
brew bundle
# Install ruby stuff
bundle install
Point it at a folder full of your pictures like this but READ THE WHOLE README BEFORE YOU RUN THIS OR SO HELP ME!
IMPORT_PATH=/Users/psturgeon/Pictures/import/ ruby rename.rbThis will move files out of the import folder (using actual mv) and into a new structure like this:
2018/2018-12/2018-12-01 23:59:59.jpg
The output folder will be ./export unless you provide EXPORT_PATH too.
It has duplicate detection with checksums, and it'll even try to help you out when EXIF dates are missing:
This probably only works on OSX, who knows. 👋🏻