Organize your files

Dir-tree-organizer (it's current name) is a simple python application that is designed to do the following:

• Take a messy directory full of photos and/or other files
• Copy or move those photos into a new directory and organize it by date

Features

• Destination files organized in 3 levels YYYY/MM/DD or 2 YYYY/MM_DD (maybe with month only later)
• Ability to use EXIF data to calculate the image date
• Progress indicator of sorts (total files)
• Ability to skip specific file extensions
• Having a minimum file size

Installation

• Check out this repository to your machine.
• Make sure you have dependencies installed (sudo pip install *)
  • PIL
  • argparse
• run python organize.py

Usage examples

To organize all files in /mnt/disk1/messy and create a new organized version in /mnt/disk2/clean using the default 2 level format.

This also continues on errors and skips hidden files and has a progress meter:

python organize.py -s -p -i -m 150 /mnt/disk1/messy /mnt/disk2/clean

For more info run

python organize.py -h