Sopi

Sopi (Sort Pictures) is a simple Julia program written by Fabrice that takes a list of files from our camera (with extension "JPG") and move them in a directory tree named after the date, also appending the hour of the shot to the filename itself.

This replaces the script SortTime which we were using until then but that was taking too much time to be convenient (over a second per file). Testing on 563 files from our last batch of pictures, it reduced the 17min37s of SortTime to 1min9s, which is more reasonable!

Usage

Copy the file sopi.jl in the directory where the directory tree is to be formed and files redistributed, then run:

julia sopi.jl

Work on a copy!

History

• v0°1 on 10 October (2020). Simplest features.
• v0°11 on 1 November (2020). Numbered-months (01-January, etc.), pretty-labelling of dates & fix a bug for May.
• v0°2 on 1 January (2021). Standalone version (no need to copy the script) processing working directory as an argument.

Todo

Failsafe, options (path to files, extensions, ...)

Source

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# v°0.11      |_|      
# Sun  1 Nov 15:28:17 CET 2020
# F.P. Laussy - fabrice.laussy@gmail.com
# 
# Sopi sorts jpg files in a directory tree named after the dates
# at which the pictures have been taken (after their exif data)
# (`sopi' stands for Sort Pictures)

using Dates;

# This list the filenames of JPG files to process (in current path)
lfn=filter(x->occursin("JPG",x), readdir());

# Starting
print("Hi there! Sopi working with "*string(length(lfn))*" files...\n")

print("Started ");
print(now());
print("\n")

# This returns a vector with date and time from the exif data
function datemy(fn)
 mdata = read(`exiftool $fn`,String)
 sdata=split(mdata,"\n")
 spdata=split(sdata[findall( x -> occursin("Date/Time Original", x) , split(mdata,"\n"))[1]]," ")
 [spdata[end-1],spdata[end]]
end

# This collects all the dates and times to process and transform into a matrix
alltimes=permutedims(reduce(hcat,[datemy(i) for i in lfn]))

# Keep unique days
uniquetimes=(x->replace(x, ":"=>"/")).(unique(alltimes[:,1]))

# This creates the directory tree
lmonths=["/01/" "/01-January/"; "/02/" "/02-February/"; "/03/" "/03-March/"; "/04/" "/04-April/"; "/05/" "/05-May/"; "/06/" "/06-June/"; "/07/" "/07-July/"; "/08/" "/08-August/"; "/09/" "/09-September/"; "/10/" "/10-October/"; "/11/" "/11-November/"; "/12/" "/12-December/"]

for i=1:12
 global uniquetimes=(x->replace(x,lmonths[i,1]=>lmonths[i,2])).(uniquetimes[:,1])
end

print("Working with "*string(length(uniquetimes))*" directories...\n")
mkpath.(uniquetimes)

print("Moving files!\n")
# This puts the files in pla
for i=1:length(lfn)
 dest=split(alltimes[i,1],":")
 mv(lfn[i],dest[1]*lmonths[:,2][parse(Int64,dest[2])]*dest[3]*"/"*replace(lfn[i],".JPG"=>"-")*alltimes[i,2]*".JPG")
end

print("Finished ")
print(now())
print("\n")