Organize photos and other files on an year/month/day folders structures

motoras (Romulus Pasca) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:09:58 GMT

This script can organize you media colelction in folders by year/month/day.
For jpeg files, looks in exif for the creation date, if that file has that kind of metadadata. For any other files it only checks the creation time.
The script takes 3 option on the command line. A command which may be -m, -c or -f, a source folder and a destination folder.
Using -c will copy the files from souce to destination, -m will move them, - f will also move them, by making first a copy then a delete. -f option may used when -m doesn't work, the most common situation beeing when you want to move the files from one file system to another(e.g. from your ext3 local hard drive to an external fat32 usb harddrive)
After you organize the files, you can find duplicate items using my previous snippet.
This script have been inspired from here



#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

require 'rubygems'

require 'ftools'

require 'exifr'





def process_file(file_path,destination_dir)

	if File.directory?(file_path)

		crt_dir = Dir.new(file_path)

		crt_dir.each do |file_name|

			if file_name != '.' &&  file_name != '..'				

				process_file("#{crt_dir.path}/#{file_name}",destination_dir)		

			end

		end	

	else

			

		if  File.fnmatch('*.jpg',file_path) ||  File.fnmatch('*.jpeg',file_path)

			picture = EXIFR::JPEG.new(file_path)

			if picture != nil && picture.exif != nil

				file_date = picture.date_time		

			else

				f = File.new(file_path)

				file_date = f.mtime

			end							

		end

		if file_date == nil

			f = File.new(file_path)

			file_date = f.mtime	

		end		

		year_dir =  destination_dir + file_date.strftime("%Y")

		month_dir = destination_dir + file_date.strftime("%Y/%m-%b")

		day_dir = destination_dir + file_date.strftime("%Y/%m-%b/%d")

		new_file_name = day_dir + "/" + File.basename(file_path)

		begin

			Dir.mkdir(year_dir) unless File.exists?(year_dir)

			Dir.mkdir(month_dir) unless File.exists?(month_dir)

			Dir.mkdir(day_dir) unless File.exists?(day_dir)

			if ARGV[0 ] =='-m' #move the files

				File.rename(file_path, new_file_name)

			elsif ARGV[0]  =='-c' #copy the files

				File.cp(file_path, new_file_name)	

			elsif ARGV[0]  =='-f' #copy and delete, acts like a move between thw different file systems	

				File.cp(file_path, new_file_name)

				File.delete(file_path)	

			else

				puts "Unknown option #{ARGV[0]}"

				exit	

			end	

		end	

		

	end	

end





if ARGV.length != 3

	puts "Three arguments are required to run the script, -c|-m|-f   "

	exit

end



if ARGV[0] !='-c'  && ARGV[0]!='-m' && ARGV[0]!='-f'

	puts "Unknown running option: #{ARGV[0]}"

	exit

end



if not File.exists?(ARGV[1]) 

	puts "Source file does not exists: #{ARGV[1]}"

	exit

end





if not File.directory?(ARGV[2]) 

	puts "Destination file is not a directory #{ARGV[2]}"

	exit

end



if ARGV[1]==ARGV[2]

	puts "Source and destination must be different"

	exit

end	

	

	

process_file(ARGV[1], ARGV[2])

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Organize photos and other files on an year/month/day folders structures