How To Reorganize your pictures based on Exif data (into folders)

Hi ,
Its often good Idea to reorganize your pictures (images) into folders based on date when its taken.
I have written a small python script which does nothing but displays a command suggestion to move your files in directories.

Here is script


How To Use

Lets say you have saved above script in a file info.py.
so if your execute this script

$./info.py filename m

this will print the month and year part of the date when this picture is taken.
so based on your need (whether you want to achieve yearly/monthly or daily) chose the right option.

Sample output

If you use this script  with find command it will recursively print the command suggestion for all file. Save this output in a file and execute like a shell script (or batch file if you are on windows).


Here is command to get the monthly archival command-list

$find . -name *.JPG -type f -exec ./info.py {} m \;

Note:
1.make sure that there is a space after m and \;
2.If you are on windows u need cygwin for find comand.
3.this python script uses PIL library (so you need python and PIL library)

Sample output with find command

(Note: Install PIL on you machine here http://pythonmac.org/packages/py25-fat/index.html)