lrphotocopy

Organize and copy your photos into folders by shooting date, using Adobe Lightroom's year/date folder structure.

Features

• Lightroom-style folders: Copies images into <target>/<YEAR>/<YEAR-MM-DD>/ structure based on EXIF date.
• Preserves file attributes while copying.
• Dry run (-d): Preview actions without changing files.
• Verbose (-v): Detailed progress output.
• Supported files: .jpg, .jpeg, .tif, .tiff, .png, .heic.
• Skips non-photos and images without EXIF dates - with warnings.
• Cross-platform: Requires Python 2+.

Installation

pip install lrphotocopy

After installation, run it as lrphotocopy.

Usage

lrphotocopy [options] <source_dir> <target_dir>

Common Options

• -v, --verbose    Show detailed output.
• -d, --dry-run     Simulate actions, make no changes.

Examples

Organize photos from ~/Pictures into ~/LR_Organized using Lightroom's convention:

lrphotocopy -v ~/Pictures ~/LR_Organized

Dry run:

lrphotocopy -v -d ~/Pictures ~/LR_Organized

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please submit pull requests or open issues on the GitHub repository.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

About

lrphotocopy was created to quickly sort and back up photos into a Lightroom-style folder structure.