Copy with directory autocreation?

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1

What is the simplest way for that:
Move files to subdirectories of defined directory, with automatic creation of these subdirectories (they may or may not exist already), based on file properties.
Purpose:
Move images (without name change) to directories like:
\2006\2006.12.20
where "2006.12.20" is based on file "date taken" EXIF property and most often doesn't exist before copying.

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2

As far as I know Opus does not currently have a way of parsing EXIF metadata like that so for something like this I would use ExifUtils in a command line script to accomplish the task.

3

Hello John,
I know that the ExifUtils command -

C:\EXIFutils\exiflist.exe /o l /f date-taken {o}
  • can be piped.
    I have a registered version of ExifUtils, but for this task,
    the free version is enough to do this.

Regards,
Zippo

4

You could do it in two passes with Opus since you can use {shootingtime} in a rename. At the moment you can't format the date/time to be how you want it, so you'd have to rename once using what you get, then rename a second time to move the date fields around, and remove the ones you don't want, as desired.

There's already a feature request to improve this so you have more control over the date/time format.

5

Duhh ,
Of course.
Thanks Nudel.
And with

[quote]There's already a feature request to improve this so you have more control over the date/time format.
[/quote]
Problem solved.
Regards,
Zippo

6

Well, problem almost solved.
Xyzzy did want these to be a sub-Dir of the Dir .
Good enough though.

Regards,
Zippo

7

You can do that by renaming the directory that's created in the first step, renaming it to a date directory below a year directory.