Divide photos into folders

[Mauco8045 Participant Topics: 1 Replies: 6 Points: 26Rank: Member]

Hi everyone, I have a folder with a lot of photos. I would like to be able to divide them into subfolders that have as their name the date of acquisition of the photos. Is it possible to have a powershell?

 

Thanks.

[Mike R.]

Absolutely possible.  Here’s where I would start.  Do Get-Help on the following:

Get-Item

Get-ChildItem

Get-ItemProperty

Copy-Item

New-Item

Come back with some code and maybe I can help you out.

• This reply was modified 2 months ago by Mike R..

[Mauco8045 Participant Topics: 1 Replies: 6 Points: 26Rank: Member]

Mike R. wrote:

date of acquisition

Hi, I have this:

gci | ? {-not $_.psiscontainer} | % {$_.creationtime.tostring(‘yyyy-MM-dd’)} | sort -unique | % {new-item -type directory $_}

$files = gci | ? {-not $_.psiscontainer}

$folders = gci | ? {$_.psiscontainer}

foreach ($file in $files) {foreach($folder in $folders) {if($file.creationtime.tostring(‘yyyy-MM-dd’) -eq $folder) {move-item $file.fullname -destination $folder}}}

 

It work fine, but it doesn’t use the date of acquisition

[Mike R. Participant Topics: 5 Replies: 261 Points: 1,036Rank: Community Hero]

What is the “date of aquisition”?  File objects have the following date properties:

Name
—-
CreationTime
CreationTimeUtc
LastAccessTime
LastAccessTimeUtc
LastWriteTime
LastWriteTimeUtc

Is it one of these?

[Mauco8045 Participant Topics: 1 Replies: 6 Points: 26Rank: Member]

Mike R. wrote:

What is the “date of aquisition”? File objects have the following date properties:

Name

—-

CreationTime

CreationTimeUtc

LastAccessTime

LastAccessTimeUtc

LastWriteTime

LastWriteTimeUtc

Is it one of these?

In windows 10 (Italian) I can sort the files by date, creation date and acquisition date. Only the date of acquisition shows the true date the photos were taken.

[Rob Simmers Participant Topics: 17 Replies: 1957 Points: 4,015Rank: Community Hero]

Date the picture was taken is metadata:

Use PowerShell to Find Metadata from Photograph Files

[Mauco8045]

Rob Simmers wrote:

Date the picture was taken is metadata:

Use PowerShell to Find Metadata from Photograph Files

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Hi, could you modify my powershell to make it work? I am just starting out!

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[Mauco8045 Participant Topics: 1 Replies: 6 Points: 26Rank: Member]

Rob Simmers wrote:

Date the picture was taken is metadata:

Use PowerShell to Find Metadata from Photograph Files

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In the folders I have .jpg and .raw files. From the .raw files I don’t think you can find the date from the metadata.

[random commandline]

PowerShell

$folder = \\path\to\photos Get-ChildItem -Path $folder -Filter *.jpg | ForEach-Object { # Get date in custom format $dir = get-date -Date ($_.CreationTime) -Format 'yyyy-MM-dd' $dest = Join-Path -Path $folder -ChildPath $dir # Create folder based on custom format and move .jpg,.cr2 files IF (!(Test-Path -Path $dest)) { New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $dest -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue} Move-Item -Path $_.FullName,($_.FullName -replace '\.jpg$','.cr2') -Destination $dest }

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$folder = \\path\to\photos Get-ChildItem -Path $folder -Filter *.jpg | ForEach-Object {     # Get date in custom format     $dir = get-date -Date ($_.CreationTime) -Format 'yyyy-MM-dd'     $dest = Join-Path -Path $folder -ChildPath $dir          # Create folder based on custom format and move .jpg,.cr2 files     IF (!(Test-Path -Path $dest)) {         New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $dest -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue}     Move-Item -Path $_.FullName,($_.FullName -replace '\.jpg$','.cr2') -Destination $dest }

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[Mauco8045 Participant Topics: 1 Replies: 6 Points: 26Rank: Member]

Hi, thank you. As I said, for each photo I have 2 files… namephoto.jpg and namephoto.cr2. Is it possible to move all this files?

[random commandline Participant Topics: 5 Replies: 349 Points: 632Rank: Major Contributor]

My edit should work for both file formats

[Mauco8045 Participant Topics: 1 Replies: 6 Points: 26Rank: Member]

random commandline wrote:

$folder = \\path\to\photos

Hi, thanks for the script. I wanted to ask you if I have to add the folder where it finds the files or if it is enough to put the script in the working folder.

 

Thank you

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