Our nonprofit has about 20,000 photos taken over 25 years in as many countries.
The photos are stored in a folder tree that has a sub-folder for every country and, under these, sub-folders for cities, universities, and hospitals (some of the folder names indicating which year the photos were taken, like...
Photos/Nigeria/Abuja2008
or
Photos/PapauNewGuinea/EducationDepartment
Many of the older photos lack GPS info, so I'd like, as much as possible, to retain the folder names as keywords in as we move the images into a database.
Any advice on how to accomplish this?
You could use a command like this:
exiftool "-subject<directory" -sep "/" -r Photos
This will also add "Photos" as a keyword, and it will preserve "_original" backup files.
- Phil