Hi,
I wasn't sure whether to post here or in the The "exiftool" Application forum. But I'm a newby, so I guess here's ok?
I have hundreds and hundreds of photos in a strange (to me) folder structure so I've simplified things by having exiftool create folders based on Years, then Months. It shifted the whole lot in just over a day, awesome! Saved me so much time and frustration.
I used the following command:
emm@i3:~$ exiftool '-Directory<CreateDate' -d /nfs/Photographs/%y/%m -r /nfs/Production/Photography/
However, some of the XMP sidecar files haven't gone over, they failed with the following message:
Warning: No writable tags set from /~/Bonus Day - 20 Feb/_DSC9251.NEF.xmp
Anyone shed any light? (in fairly simple terms). Thanks in advance and sorry for the dumb question. I'm using Linux Mint 20, just in case that helps :)
You'll get this warning for any file that doesn't contain a CreateDate tag. If you want to use a fallback that always works, you can use FileModifyDate, ie)
exiftool '-Directory<FileModifyDate' '-Directory<CreateDate' -d /nfs/Photographs/%y/%m -r /nfs/Production/Photography/
... or use "exiftool -time:all -s FILE" to see what tags are available, and add all the ones you want (in reverse order of precedence) to the command.
- Phil
Thank you so much!! I've been scratching my head most of this evening trying to wrap my mind around the issue.
Thanks, dude, you're awsome! :D