Renaming pictures based on Folder Name

[hbr_in]

Hi Phil,

Thanks for the wonderful app. I just entered the Photography world & your app has made it seem so easy.

I wanted to rename & move each image based on their Exif Info & i succeded. However When creating folders i wanted to maintain the folder name they are in.

I have a lot of Photo Album (or Photo Folders). Currently i use below command to rename & move images to "year\Month\Date\Images" Format.

exiftool "-FileName<DateTimeOriginal" -ext jpg -d "%Y/%m %B/%d/%B-%d-%Y-%H-%M-%S%%-c.%%e" .

Like this i do for all the albums. Then i rename the Date folder to involve the album name(which basically is the initial folder name). Finally i merge them so that i have a year-moth-date sorted folder.

I want the final date folder to have the current folder name.

I know exiftool can also rename the folder based on initial folder name but Just couldnt find how.

Currently from D:\pictures\Hakone trip\ using below comamnd

"exiftool "-FileName<DateTimeOriginal" -ext jpg -d "%Y/%m %B/%d/%B-%d-%Y-%H-%M-%S%%-c.%%e" . "

i get
D:\pictures\Hakone trip\2010\03 March\20\March-20-2010-12-34-12.jpg

but i want
D:\pictures\Hakone trip\2010\03 March\20 - Hakone trip\March-20-2010-12-34-12.jpg

I looked even in below 2 threads but couldnt figure it out.

I didnt understand the steps in below thread
https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php/topic,2741.0.html

Trick from below thread didnt work either
https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php/topic,2831.0.html

Kindly help me in this.

Thanks in advance

Regards
Gururaja

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Gururaja,

You can do what you want fairly easily by setting the directory properly before running exiftool and adding %%d to your date/time format string in two places:

cd D:\pictures

exiftool "-FileName<DateTimeOriginal" -ext jpg -d "%%d/%Y/%m %B/%d - %%d/%B-%d-%Y-%H-%M-%S%%-c.%%e" "Hakone trip"


- Phil