ExifSort

ExifSort - sort media files into date-based folders by reading EXIF creation date.

Key Features

✅ Robust Metadata Support: Powered by ExifTool, ensuring reliable reading of EXIF/XMP creation dates from a wide variety of formats (JPG, DNG, MOV, MP4, ORF, RAW, and more).
✅ Flexible Organization: Automatically moves files into date-based directory structures (e.g., 2023/20231224) and renames them with timestamp prefixes (e.g., 20231224-180000-Image.jpg).
✅ "Party Mode" (Day Shift): Define when a new day starts (default: 04:00 AM). Photos taken after midnight (e.g., at a party) will be sorted into the previous day's folder, keeping events together.
✅ Extension Normalization: Automatically unifies file extensions to lowercase standard formats (e.g., converts .JPEG to .jpg, .TIFF to .tif).
✅ Time Correction: Apply a time offset (in seconds) to fix timestamps if your camera's clock was set incorrectly.
✅ Safe & Secure:
→ Dry-run mode (--test): Preview changes without modifying any files.
→ Conflict protection: Skips files if the target destination already exists (unless overwrite is forced).
→ Fallback handling: Files without metadata are safely moved to a dedicated _UNKNOWN folder.
✅ CLI Friendly: Includes a progress bar, colorful output, and verbose mode for detailed processing logs.

Installation

pip install exifsort

Requirements

• Python 3.13+
• ExifTool command-line tool
• PyExifTool Python library

License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

Links

• GitHub: https://github.com/barabasz/exifsort
• Issues: https://github.com/barabasz/exifsort/issues