Neat Photo Import

🦑 Find it on GitLab here Not wanting to open Lightroom, Darktable or other photo library apps to simply import/copy photos from my camera’s memory card, I wrote a script to fetch photos’ date-taken time stamp and copy them into a date-labelled folder structure: photoName.cr2 → YYYY/MM-DD → 2020/10-01/photoName.cr2 This admittedly simple task ended up also helping with re-organizing messy photo folders and turned out to be an interesting journey through the exiftool docs, running Python subprocesses and dealing with character encodings. ...

November 9, 2021