Creating Directory tree based on EXIF DateTimeOriginal

[wodbutchr]

Hello,
I am new to this forum so forgive me if this question has already been answered.

I am trying to recover pictures from an ancient computer crash, I just kept the hard disks and used Recuva to do low level disk scans for pictures. Then I used exiftool to create the EXIF DateTimeOriginal from the FileModifyDate for each picture.
Now my problem is to create a directory structure year/month/day/picture.jpg from the EXIF date.
Can exiftool do that? Suggestions mucha appreciated.
exiftool is  great program well worth the steep learning curve!
Andre

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Andre,

Take a look at the 3rd and 4th examples "RENAMING EXAMPLES" section of the application documentation, and let me know if you have any questions.

Also note that you should use double quotes around command-line arguments if you are running in Windows.

- Phil

[wodbutchr]

Woaw, problem solved.
I can throw away all the photo management tidbits I found on the internet and embrace exiftool!

Thanks again,
Andre