Comments on: Automatically move photos to directories or folders based on exif date taken…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:55:39 +0000

Great work… saved me writing my own!

By: John

John — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:51:37 +0000

Does the job for sure! Thanks.

By: Glen

Glen — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:51:22 +0000

Hi Mike,
Very useful software. Nice and simple.
I have one question in that when the program creates the directories at the day level it puts a space after the year but it doent do this at other levels. eg the monthly level wii be 2009/2009_10 but the day level will be 200/2009 _10_25.
Is there any reason for this or have I installed it incorrectly?
Thanks

By: MC

MC — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:46:06 +0000

This is the TOPS! many thanks. It does exactly what I wanted it to do.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:11:31 +0000

@Subhi,

Thanks for the comment. Sounds like you had a lot of photos to sort.

I did have an note in the post that current Microsoft and Adobe PDF files also have an embedded exif section and that these would be moved if they were included. I ‘bolded’ those sentences in the post so future users will have a better chance of seeing it before they use the program.

For anyone who has a lot of photos to sort, I would suggest they move all the .jpgs to a temporary directory or folder before they start. Then you won’t have to worry about have other file types included. Then run PhotoMove and it’ll sort them all by date into new folders where you specify.

Mike

By: Subhi S Hashwa

Subhi S Hashwa — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:52:50 +0000

Hi Mike.

Great piece of software, it took a while to sort the pics I have (over 200k) but it did the job well.

I found a bug in the software.
It moves all files not just pictures, I had a directory with random unsorted files (word, PDF, excel) and it moved them all.

Feature requests:
Can you make the source code available? I am happy to attempt to update it.
Log file option to undo things that could happen in the bug discovered above.
Progress report/bar.

Once again, many thanks for a great piece of software

Subhi

By: Rantings of a Road Warrior » Pictures taken workstream

Rantings of a Road Warrior » Pictures taken workstream — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:25:39 +0000

[...] 3. Use PhotoMove to sort + move the pictures from the temporary folder to the final resting place of… [...]

By: Petros

Petros — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:46:10 +0000

Great application! Thank you for publishing it!

By: Sphfynktre

Sphfynktre — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:01:32 +0000

You’re in the top 10 of my “small programs that I actually find really useful and well written”. My friend has thousands of photos of his family scattered all over his computer in no particular order or location. Each time he gets a new digital camera, the program that comes with it dumps into a different place… and now they can’t find anything. He guilted me into helping him organize them, so I’m glad I found your program. It was either spending hours and hours organizing, or hours and hours writing program of my own! Thank you so much. Very, very much.

By: Bernardo Fortes

Bernardo Fortes — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:00:54 +0000

If we could choose the ammount of directory levels it would be very interesting…

Year
Year/month
Year/month/day (current app)

best regards,