Clearos Photo-sorting GUI

[darzu]

Hello,

i am using clearos on a server where i found an aplication named photo-sorting, it turns out it is based on exiftool, the gui for it seems very basic and only with a few options. I had found de conf file for the settings in the path /etc/clearos/photo_organizer.conf and inside the file i found this:

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destination_folder="/var/flexshare/shares/photos"
sources="/var/flexshare/shares/hdd/Pictures/DCIM/Camera|1|1"
email_notification="#######@gmail.com"
folder_format="%Y-%B"
file_format="$make-$model-%f.%e"
valid_root_folders="var;media;home;store;mnt;tmp"


i would like to set the option to ovewrite the files in the folder "/var/flexshare/shares/photos" if there is already present.
Anyone could help to fulfill this?

thanks in advance

Ervin

[StarGeek]

Nothing in that config file appears to be anything that can change the behavior of the app.  The folder_format and file_format appear to be formatting strings that will be passed to exiftool, but there's no details on the actual exiftool command.  And I don't believe that exiftool will overwrite existing files during move/rename operation anyway.  You could add a %c just after the %f in the file_format line to add a copy number in the case of duplicates.  See the -w (textout) option for details on %c.

[Phil Harvey]

StarGeek is correct.  The ExifTool rename feature cannot be used to overwrite existing files because this could potentially be very dangerous.

[darzu]

i modified the conf to

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destination_folder="/var/flexshare/shares/photos"
sources="/var/flexshare/shares/hdd/Pictures/DCIM|1|1"
email_notification="&&&&&&&&@gmail.com"
folder_format="%Y-%B"
file_format="$make-$model-%f-%c.%e"
valid_root_folders="var;media;home;store;mnt;tmp"


but still got similar issues:

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Warning:
Invalid EXIF text encoding for UserComment - /var/flexshare/shares/hdd/Pictures/DCIM/Camera/IMG_20170628_181356.jpg
Error: '/var/flexshare/shares/photos/2017-June/IMG_20170628_181356.jpg' already exists - /var/flexshare/shares/hdd/Pictures/DCIM/Camera/IMG_20170628_181356.jpg
Warning: Invalid EXIF text encoding for UserComment - /var/flexshare/shares/hdd/Pictures/DCIM/Camera/VID_20170607_080056.jpg
Error: '/var/flexshare/shares/photos/2017-June/VID_20170607_080056.jpg' already exists - /var/flexshare/shares/hdd/Pictures/DCIM/Camera/VID_20170607_080056.jpg
Warning: Invalid EXIF text encoding for UserComment - /var/flexshare/shares/hdd/Pictures/DCIM/Camera/IMG_20170814_191107.jpg
Error: '/var/flexshare/shares/photos/2017-August/IMG_20170814_191107.jpg' already exists - /var/flexshare/shares/hdd/Pictures/DCIM/Camera/IMG_20170814_191107.jpg


the most anoying thing that also the originals remain there, i took from different devices pictures and i wanted using this software to make sure that i will have only one version of each picture and will be sorted in an easier way and structured by date.