On 17 September 2011 14:46, oliver <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 02:32:46PM +0200, Christophe Drevet wrote:
>>
>> Now, I have a big disk with a lot of space available. I would like to
>> move all my photos in a single place and using a single scheme
>> (Year/Month). I don't see a way to do this with shotwell. I don't see
>> how to do it at all, actually.
If you are importing into Shotwell, just go to
Edit->Preferences->Library and under 'Importing' choose 'Year/Month'
as directory structure.
Otherwise you could use exiftool.
>From the exiftool man page:
=========
exiftool '-Directory<DateTimeOriginal' -d %Y/%m/%d dir
Move all files in dir into a directory hierarchy based on year,
month and day of DateTimeOriginal. ie) This command would move the
file dir/image.jpg with a DateTimeOriginal of 2005:10:12 16:05:56 to
2005/10/12/image.jpg.
========
In your case I guess the command would be:
exiftool '-Directory<DateTimeOriginal' -d %Y/%m dir
where 'dir' is the directory you are importing from.
I did not try it on real life, your mileage may vary.
After that, you would change the 'Library Location' in shotwell
preferences and check the 'Watch library directory for new files'
option.
At this point I am not sure if shotwell will recognise the new path of
your photos or if it will treat them as a bunch of duplicates warning
you about the missing files.
Just do a test with few photos before doing The Big Move ;-)
Any shotwell guru reading this can shed some light?
Ciao ciao,
Piergi
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