My ImageIngester can copy files to the folder structure you set up, based on various criteria, including date modification date of file or embedded EXIF date. Over the years I have owned many cameras. However, each camera had its own way of naming the sub folder and the photo. As a result the my pictures folder is a big mess with hundreds of folders and sub folders, and tens of thousands of files. I want to sort them, but don't have the time to manually sort tens of thousands of files.
All I want to do is take everything in the "my pictures folder" and all its sub-folders, and move them to a new hierachial folder structure according to the creation month. It must exist. Anyone got an answer? I am using Windows XP by the way.. You must log in or sign up to reply here. Show Ignored Content. Share This Page Tweet. Your name or email address: Password: Forgot your password?
For example, move File1 that was last modified on Jan 14, to Repeat this for every file in Go to Solution. I'm going to assume that the files are in your OneDrive, but the process is the same if they are in SharePoint. If you like my response, please give it a Thumbs Up.
View solution in original post. The "List files in the folder" list the whole contents of a folder folders and files and return a flag isF older so that you know if an entry is a file or a folder.
It won't drill down if you want to do that; you need to do a more complex Flow where if it finds a folder, it will call another Flow or the same one to find information under that directory recursively.
I can show you how, but it's a little bit more tricky. Regarding your second question, no. The Flow fetches all the information in the "List files in folder" step and uses it until the flow. Each action is always like a snapshot. I used it to consolidate my photos from my PCs, laptops, external hard drive, and several different backups into one central location. Folder output structure is highly configurable. It can detect duplicate photos and provides several options for how to handle them.
If it finds files or pictures that do not have EXIF dates you can optionally move them based on file date. To top it all off, the developer is awesome. I was clearing space off my phone by moving the photos I had taken onto my computer. However, I had 2 years of photos all in one jumble — albeit a chronological one.
I spent about 30 minutes manually creating folders and organizing my photos, before I realized that there might be a better way online. I found PhotoMove via a Google search and it is perfect! Exactly what I was looking for and it has saved me soooooooo much time. Thank you so much for developing this! Your email is blocked.
Here is the result I get when I tried to email you another copy of your information: —— The delivery status notification errors ——. If you feel you received this in error, please contact the recipient directly and ask them to check their email settings. Just wondering how long I should wait in order to receive my download link I just paid for it with PayPal.
You can use PhotoMove on video files as well as on photos. PhotoMove will move and organize any video files that contain exif data. Most modern video cameras from the past 5 or more years now embed exif data in the file. You can search your whole computer although I would NOT recommend this or an entire drive at one time using PhotoMove. To search your entire computer simply set the folder to search in Step 1 to Desktop. The problem you may have is that there are a lot of file, other than image files, that contain exif data.
PhotoMove will find all of these and this will include more files than you probably want. Also, there may be issues when searching this way in Windows OS folders and hidden folders. In your next update can you offer a setting to search the entire computer not just individual folders for photos and video.
Program works great. However, some files fail to have the date taken data. For these files, an option to sort into folders by file creation date would be a fall back option that would be appreciated. I would pay for that upgrade. For now, you could just change the time settings in your camera to a time zone 8 hours ahead of the one you are in.
Then it will start a new day. I want that my day start at 8 am to 8 am the next day because I want that my party photo taken after midnight are in the same folder then the one take before midnight. I have been looking for a program that would do exactly what photomove 2. I am amazed at how liittle time it takes to sort the pictures and how error free it is.
I am currently including this feature in the upcoming PhotoMove 2. Thanks for your nice comments and your donation. I really appreciate hearing from users who have saved time and been pleased with PhotoMove.
I would really appreciate your feedback. One enhancement I would like is the ability to create a folder for the camera model from the EXIF data. With family members all backing up their photos on my drives I would like to keep them separated by the camera model and then use the date structure below that. Mike, your program saved me. I had two copies of my photos: one set on my computer and one set on my external drive that I use for back up.
After having to reformat my computer wiped out one set , I tried to use an automated backup program to return my photos to the computer hard drive. I was horrified. After separating my documents and videos from my photos, I was left with 20 thousand photos in one folder.
I knew that most of my photos had exif data, so I after a cursory search on Google I came across your program. What a relief!
I let your program run overnight and in the morning I found that only a thousand photos had no exif data. Mike, I just wanted to let you know that I donated money to you through PayPal. Mike, keep up the good work, my friend!
It seems to find any file that might be an image file. PhotoMove will run fine in Windows 8. If you still have a problem, delete the program then re-install it with admin priveleges. I am planning on releasing a new version. Do you have an option for organizing the photos into months? I sent you a more detailed answer by email, but here is the short story in case others have questions. If you MOVE files, and if the files you are moving contain exact duplicate files, Exact duplicate means the file name and the exif date created are both exactly the same for each file , only one copy will remain in your destination directory after the move.
In other words, if you have many duplicate copies of the same file on your hard drive, you can use PhotoMove to process the folders that contain the duplicate filse, and they will be sorted by date taken into the destination PhotoMove directory folder that you specify.
If you edit your files make changes to the original photo and then save the file with the exact same original file name, and if, in the future, you put another copy of that same original photo on your hard drive, and then you decide to run PhotoMove on both these photos, they will both look the same to PhotoMove.
Good practice when editing your photos is to save the edited or changed version under a new or different file name. There are two advantages of doing this. Mike, I have not downloaded your program as yet.
I have approximately separate images on three hard disks. Further, these images are replicated at least six times … so I have at least 36, images … may duplicates. PS … your reviews are excellent and your responses are quick and friendly … Great Job. If you try to process a large number of files at one time many hundreds or thousands the program can run for a long time.
It can seem that your computer locks up, but it is just the program processing the large amount of files. If you have too many files and the program does not seem to work, move some of the files into a different folder and then work on a smaller batch of files at one time.
Hope this helps. Unbelievably awesome…I accidentally formatted my hard drive with all of our pictures. AFter I recovered them I relaized it may take a year or two to re-organize…not now. Awesome, just awesom.
One question though, what is the highest number of pictures the program will process at once without crashing? I have to say that Mike was most helpful.
Thank you Mike. If you need help, ask Mike. We have an automated system that got away from us and created a large number of JPG files in need of organization just as you describe by year, month, day. The problem is the exif dates are mixed up in these files so that modified date is actually creation date.
It is possible to have a switch to pick modified date for the input? Amazing app! Works great! Even works with Nikon RAW format. The PhotoMove program searches through all files in the specified directory and looks for valid exif information. If your CR2 files contain exif information in the format given in the Exif Standard then the program will also work on them.
You could test it by making a new folder and copying a few of your photo files into it. Then run the program. But as I stated above, many files such as Microsoft Excel for example contain Standard Exif data even though you might wonder why they do. Give it a try! Most comments seem to be favourable although I have not yet downloaded and tried the prog, but……… will it sort in my case CR2 files, or any other raw files for that matter?
It just seems a weakness with all these sort of progs. I really do appreciate all the hundreds of people who have downloaded and are using PhotoMove. Currently somewhere between and copies are downloaded every month.
And the program has been stable for a long time. So I was a little surprised to see the above user comment about an install problem. All comments get immediately routed to my email so that I can respond if necessary. Since this one indicated there was a problem I wrote an email back explaining the options that he could try initially to sort things out. And then wrote out how he could contact me if he still had additional problems. I hit the send button on my email to send my reply.
Almost immediately the email was bounced back to me saying the user had provided a phony email address. I have never had anything like this happen before. So to the user that sent the email. If you really do have a problem and if by chance you accidentally entered your email address incorrectly, please use the contact me page or post another comment with a valid name and email address so I can get in touch with you. Suggestion may have already been made to have an input which allows people to choose their own method of naming the folder e.
Great application! Thanks for the comment Sun. Your idea to optionally allow the user to specify their own file mask is a very good one. It will be included in the next revision. Hi, thanks for the great program. I was hoping the dates would separated by dashes. Otherwise, a great GUI to exiftool. Suggestion for the future is to allow our own file mask. It is amazing that this is the best I have found on the internet any where, I have a collection of Gb of photos — As i use my camera all the time, and like other comments here, not just one camera.
Great work Thanks. Then create rules under the folder with the rule editor. Drag and drop condition to filter the files, and Drag and drop actions which you want to perform to the files. Let's say you want to move all the files which name contains "report" to the My Documents folder. You just need to use the name condition and move to action. You can create your rule like the following figure:. Click "Done" to save the rule.
Now you can preview the rule match status in the folder preview grid. If there are matched items you can click "Organize Now" button to perform the move action. Besides "Move to" action you can also use the "Sort into subfolder" action. This action can create a folder in the file's current location then move the file into it. After you create your rules set. Click the "Save and Organize in the background" button in the tool bar, RoboBasket will stay in the background and organize your files silently.
Let's say you want to move all your music to My Music Folder.
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