rene00 / pt

pt

A command line tool that have various sub commands which help me manage my personal photo archive:

• copy: copies photos and videos to a directory with a %Y/%m/$DEVICE/$ALBUM/%Y%m%d-%H%M%S%3N.$EXTENSION (example: 2012/01/my-phone/Holiday/20120130-160001001.JPG).
• cr2dupe: deletes a Canon Raw file if a duplicate JPEG also exists.
• scan: scans all photos and videos within a directory and adds their file hash to a database.

pt is a bespoke tool which most likely wont be of much use to anyone except myself.

Config

pt uses a config file stored in $HOME/.config/pt/config.json.

An example config file:

{
   "db_file": "/home/rene/.config/pt/pt.db",
   "source_dir": "/media/phone-photos",
   "destination_dir": "/media/photos",
   "device_names": {
       "none": ["/media/other-photos"],
       "rene": ["/media/phone-photos/phone-a", "/media/phone-photos/phone-b", "phone-c"],
       "kids": ["/media/phone-photos/kids-phone"],
   }
}

• db_file is the location of the sqlite3 file used by pt.
• source_dir is the default directory where pt will copy files from. This option can also be set by passing --source-dir to the copy sub command.
• destination_dir is the default directory where pt will copy files to. This option can also be set by passing --destination-dir to the copy sub command.
• device_names is a map of names as the key and a list of directory paths as a list. The name represents the device name used when pt creates the destination file. The list of directories are used by pt when it prepares to copy a file. If the source files path matches a path in this list of directories, then the device name for that source file will be set to the device name in the map. Device names are used by pt to determine the destination file path (example: /media/photos/2022/01/rene/Recent where rene is the device name).