possible to specify '-Directory<CreateDate' and '-filename<CreateDate'?

[gnychis]

I am trying to re-organize my photo library by copying pictures in to YEAR/MONTH directories and I want the files to be renamed with their EXIF creation date and time.

I am able to copy all of my pictures to YEAR/MONTH directories with:

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exiftool -o . '-Directory<CreateDate' -d /cygdrive/d/Content/Pictures/%Y/%m -r /cygdrive/d/Content/GroupedPictures


However, I was wondering if it's possible to combine that with something like this:

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'-filename<CreateDate' -d %y%m%d_%H%M%S%%-c.%%le


to be able to create directories and rename the files in the same command?  Adding it to the previous command causes nothing to happen (no files copied).

[Phil Harvey]

Yes.  You may write a directory and file name together.  See example 6 on the Writing FileName page for an example.

The reason that it didn't work when you combined your two commands is because you can only have one -d option.  But the ability to also specify a directory when writing FileName gets around this.

- Phil

[gnychis]

Thanks so much, Phil.  That worked perfectly.  Just donated to you on PayPal for the quick response and awesome tool that is saving me a lot of time.