Media sorting tool to organize photos and videos from your camera in folders by year, month and day.
The software will collect all files from the input directory and copy them to the output directory without changing the files content. It will only rename the files and place them in the proper directory for year, month and day.
All files which are not images or videos or those which do not have creation date information will be placed in a directory called unknown
without file name change. By doing this you can be sure that the input directory can be safely deleted after the successful process completion because all files from the input directory have a copy in the output directory.
Requires snapd
sudo snap install phockup
Note: snap applications can access files only in your home and /media
directories for security reasons. If your media files are not located in these directories you should use the installation method below.
If you are using distro which doesn't support snapd or you don't want to download the snap you can use the following commands to download the source and set it up
sudo apt-get install python3 libimage-exiftool-perl -y
curl -L https://github.com/ivandokov/phockup/archive/1.4.0.tar.gz -o phockup.tar.gz
tar -zxf phockup.tar.gz
sudo mv phockup-1.4.0 /opt
sudo ln -s /opt/phockup-1.4.0/phockup.py /usr/local/bin/phockup
Requires Homebrew
brew tap ivandokov/homebrew-contrib
brew install phockup
- Download and install latest stable Python 3
- Download Phockup's latest release and extract the archive
- Download exiftool from the official website and extract the archive
- Rename
exiftool(-k).exe
toexiftool.exe
- Move
exiftool.exe
to phockup folder - Open Command Prompt and
cd
to phockup folder - Use the command below (use
phockup.py
instead ofphockup
)
Organize photos from one directory into another
phockup INPUTDIR OUTPUTDIR
INPUTDIR
is the directory where your photos are located.
OUTPUTDIR
is the directory where your sorted photos will be stored. It could be a new not existing directory.
Example:
phockup ~/Pictures/camera ~/Pictures/sorted
If you want to change the output directories date format you can do it by passing the format as -d | --date
argument.
You can choose different year format (e.g. 17 instead of 2017) or decide
to skip the day directories and have all photos sorted in year/month.
Supported formats:
YYYY - 2016, 2017 ...
YY - 16, 17 ...
MM - 07, 08, 09 ...
M - July, August, September ...
m - Jul, Aug, Sept ...
DD - 27, 28, 29 ... (day of month)
DDD - 123, 158, 365 ... (day of year)
Example:
YYYY/MM/DD -> 2011/07/17
YYYY/M/DD -> 2011/July/17
YYYY/m/DD -> 2011/Jul/17
YY/m-DD -> 11/Jul-17
Instead of copying the process will move all files from the INPUTDIR to the OUTPUTDIR by using the flag -m | --move
. This is useful when working with a big collection of files and the remaining free space is not enough to make a copy of the INPUTDIR.
- Add
-m | --move
flag to move files instead of copy.
- More snapcraft.yaml fixes (removed architecture which were producing wrong snaps for amd64).
- Catch some possible write permission for directories and expand absolute path and home directory on *nix
- Fixed issue with the snap application and simplified the snapcraft.yaml
- Allow different output directories date format with
-d | --date
option.
- Allow access to removable media (external HDD, USB, etc) for snap the application
- Continue execution even if date attribute is not present [#6]
- Windows compatibility fixes
- Changed synopsis of the script.
-i|--inputdir
and-o|--outputdir
are not required anymore. Use first argument for input directory and second for output directory. - Do not process duplicated files located in different directories.
- Suffix duplicated file names of different files. Sha256 checksum is used for comparison of the source and target files to see if they are identical.
- Ignore
.DS_Store
andThumbs.db
files - Handle case when
exiftool
returns exit code > 0. - Use
os.walk
instead ofiglob
to support Python < 3.5 - Handle some different date formats from exif data.
- Collect all files instead only specified file types. This also enables video sorting.
Initial version.