minchin.scripts.photosorter 2.0.0

A little Python script to keep my photos from Dropbox organized. Designed to be run intermittently, but will run forever by default.

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.

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. 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 │ │   ├── 2013-01-0513.24.45.jpg │ │   ├── 2013-01-0514.25.54.jpg │ │   └── 2013-01-0521.28.48-1.jpg │   ├── 2013_01_06 │ │   ├── 2013-01-0616.05.02.jpg │ │   ├── 2013-01-0619.59.25.jpg │ │   ├── 2013-01-0620.40.28.jpg │ │   └── 2013-01-0621.14.38.jpg │   └── 2013_01_08 │    └── 2013-01-0811.45.51.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.

Inspired by

• <http://simplicitybliss.com/exporting-your-iphoto-library-to-dropbox/>

• <https://github.com/wting/exifrenamer>

• <http://chambersdaily.com/learning-to-love-photo-management/>

• <https://dbader.org/blog/how-to-store-photos-in-the-cloud-and-avoid-vendor-lock-in>