Show HN: A simple CLI app to organize photos by year/month locally

Re:Show HN: A simple CLI app to organize photos by year/mont... by BorisMelnik on Saturday September 12, 2020 @01:35AM (#24450116)

I have the same problem. I personally just chunk all my photos into albums like this

... 2019q4 2020q1 2020q2 2020q3 2020q4

it is too hard with 10+ years of photos to maintain all that metadata when many of them are from different operating systems / file systems so some times "sort by date" doesn't work.

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Re:Show HN: A simple CLI app to organize photos by year/mont... by AlexITC on Saturday September 12, 2020 @10:44AM (#24452841)

Such album format is actually quite similar to what the app does, its trivial to add an option to allow that.

Another problem I have with metadata (usually while dealing with times), its that some cameras include the timezone, which the app isn't parsing right now, but that means that a photo can get in a previous/next month.

> some times "sort by date" doesn't work

Actually, I forget to mention in the README that the app sets the last modified time to match the metadata date, so that sorting potentially works again.

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