Move pictures to folder with name based in creation date and folder name

[rdmitre]

Hi all. Please excuse my english.

I have pictures in a folder as follow:

/mnt/mycloud/Pictures/image1.jpg
/mnt/mycloud/Pictures/image2.jpg
/mnt/mycloud/Pictures/imagen3.jpg
/mnt/mycloud/Pictures/foldername/image4.jpg
/mnt/mycloud/Pictures/foldername/image5.jpg 
/mnt/mycloud/Pictures/foldername/image6.jpg

I need to move or rename these pictures to:

/mnt/mycloud/Pictures2/2015/01/12/2015_01_12_10:23:34.jpg
/mnt/mycloud/Pictures2/2015/01/12/2015_01_12_10:23:48.jpg
/mnt/mycloud/Pictures2/2015/01/12/2015_01_12_10:25:39.jpg
/mnt/mycloud/Pictures2/2015/02/15_foldername/2015_03_15_11:25:45.jpg
/mnt/mycloud/Pictures2/2015/02/15_foldername/2015_03_15_11:26:23.jpg
/mnt/mycloud/Pictures2/2015/02/15_foldername/2015_03_15_11:26:29.jpg

Can you help me?

[Phil Harvey]

This is a bit tricky, and it would be best to create a user-defined tag to handle this logic.

I don't have time to do this right now, but if you are interested I will do it when I get a chance.

- Phil

[rdmitre]

I hope that you have time to help me. Dont worry.

[Phil Harvey]

OK. Here you go.

The procedure is this:

1) download the attached config file to "/mnt/mycloud", and "cd" to that directory:

cd /mnt/mycloud/

2) First verify that you are getting the names you want:

exiftool -config myname.config -userparam DestDir=Pictures2 "-testname<myname" -r Pictures

3) If this looks good, then move/rename the files:

exiftool -config myname.config -userparam DestDir=Pictures2 "-filename<myname" -r Pictures

- Phil

[rdmitre]

Thanks Phill

[rdmitre]

Phil, Thank for your support. How can I adapt this config file to rename MOV files from iPhone, in the same way?

[Phil Harvey]

Why do you think you need to adapt if for MOV files?  It should work for those too.

- Phil

[StarGeek]

For videos you might have to add -api QuickTimeUTC to adjust the time from UTC to local time but otherwise, as Phil says, it should still work.