Divide photos into folders

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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.

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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.

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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

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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?

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[quote quote=274149]What is the “date of aquisition”? File objects have the following date properties:

Name

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CreationTime

CreationTimeUtc

LastAccessTime

LastAccessTimeUtc

LastWriteTime

LastWriteTimeUtc

Is it one of these?

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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.

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Date the picture was taken is metadata:

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[quote quote=274158]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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[quote quote=274158]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.

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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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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?

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My edit should work for both file formats

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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