sortphotos

SortPhotos is a Python script that organizes photos and videos into folders using date/time information

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SortPhotos is a Python script that organizes photos and videos into folders using date/time information

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2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2

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dukeofdoom·Nov 23, 2020

One tool I use is this python script called Sort Photos. It will organize photos and videos into folders by date. It especially use full when you use multiple cameras. https://github.com/andrewning/sortphotos I call it from a batch file that will pull in photos from SD cards. I have a few cameras, and my phone will let me backup photos/video to an SD card. This will organize everything into a folder structure by year/month/day. python ./sortphotos.py "/Volumes/CANON_DC" "/volumes/Seagate_2019/Photos" -r --keep-duplicates --sort %Y/%b/%d-%b I have a few lines of these in the batch file, one for each SD card name. So I don't even have to think about the paths. I just put in the SD card and run the batch file to import.

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jungletime·Aug 22, 2020

I ran into this problem when editing videos. I automated some repetitive tasks that make life easier. I have a scripts to move clips off of SD cards into a date sorted folder structure. I have three cameras and a phone, and usually want to get clips from the same date on different devices (SD cards) into one folder on my backup drive. There's also a problem when you film yourself, that lots of footage is wasted without action. Yesterday I recorded a video that was 10 minutes long, but only used the middle 2 minutes. So I used a script to chop up the video, then deleted the useless parts. I also use Typora (mark down editor) for planning and notes. Highly recommend it. If anyone is interested: https://typora.io/ https://github.com/andrewning/sortphotos https://github.com/c0decracker/video-splitter/blob/master/ff...

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randack·Jul 11, 2017

I have a library about 90GB in size currently, spanning about 12 years. I've played with all kinds of options, but I have a problem - I'm married to a luddite. My wife just doesn't get online storage and doesn't care about accessibility. She just wants to know where the most recent year's worth of photos are so that she can post to Facebook and create photo books. After toying with Dropbox, Amazon Photos, Google Photos and a host of others, what I ended up doing was connecting a 1TB drive to a Raspberry Pi, then setting up a Samba mount on the local LAN. There's a read/write "dropbox" folder where we can upload photos manually, and I have a Python script running out of cron that sorts everything into date-based folders (https://github.com/andrewning/sortphotos). The date-folders are read-only on the Samba share. I also have Dropbox config

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ured on our mobile phones. Photos can be auto-uploaded to Dropbox, and I have CLI scripts that download them from there, and move them into the date-folders. The Python script de-dupes everything, and I move "duplicates" to an S3 folder where they're either purged after 30 days, or I'll review them to double check something wasn't ignored by mistake. Everything on the 1TB drive is synched to S3 weekly, and moved quickly to Glacier. I also have a secondary 1TB drive that I'll sync to the master on a monthly basis. So I don't get on-the-go access to my full photo archives, but I can move what I want to Amazon Photos if I really want something, and I've got enough redundancies to make me feel like I won't lose anything.

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