I was looking for a way to tidy up out photos on the NAS at home and have tried a number of things that just did not fit the bill.
they were either just to difficult or completely wrong.
i then stumbled upon this blog post http://falesafe.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/photo-management/
What a gem. if you can install ruby on a machine you have to sort your photos this is it.
The post is from 2009 and so I had to update some of the gems it uses as well as change some of the code. but it was not much work.
Thanks to Falesafe for making it available it had another bonus in that I found out that we have 76000 photos.
I feel some culling is needed.
EDIT:
I had to work with the script a bit as the EXIF attribute it was using was causing my photos to be sorted incorrectly namely (date_time).
So I have updated the script to use the (date_time_original) atribute and this has now sorted my photos properly for me. The original post that was written has comments that are closed so I will upload the adjusted script here if you want to use it.
#!/usr/bin/ruby
# == Synopsis
#
# This script examines a source directory for photos and movie files and moves them to
# a destination directory. The destination directory will contain a date-hierarchy of folders.
#
# == Usage
#
# ruby photo_organizer.rb [ -h | --help ] source_dir destination_dir
#
# == Author
# Doug Fales, Falesafe Consulting, Inc.
#
# == Change Log
# LANCE HAIG = changed the EXIF attribute used to determine photo date taken to .date_time_original
#
# == Copyright
# Copyright (c) 2009 Doug Fales.
# Licensed under the same terms as Ruby.
require 'rubygems'
require 'exifr'
require 'find'
require 'logger'
require 'optparse'
require 'pathname3'
require 'digest/sha3'
STDOUT.sync = true
#$log = Logger.new("photo_organizer.log", 3, 20*1024*1024) # Log files up to 20MB, keep at least three around
#$log.info("Photo organizer started...")
def log
@log ||= Logger.new("photo_organizer.log", 3, 20*1024*1024) # Log files up to 20MB, keep at least three around
@log
end
log.info("Photo organizer started...")
def usage()
puts < e
if(f =~ /.DS_Store/)
log.info("Skipping .DS_Store")
next
elsif (e.message =~ /malformed JPEG/)
log.info("Malformed JPEG: #{f}")
next
end
end
if(time.nil?)
log.info("WARNING: No EXIF time for: #{f}. Will skip it.")
next
end
was_moved = move_image(f, time)
increment_counter if was_moved
when File.directory?(f)
log.info("Processing directory: #{f}")
else "?"
log.info("Non-dir, non-file: #{f}")
end
end
puts "\nFinished."