Supported Extensions

At this moment, we are supporting a limited number of extensions, in this way, we can guarantee that the application will behave as expected. Note that these will likely be the majority of files you have. Once we cover new extensions. Please, let us share the complete list.

• jpg
• jpeg
• mp4
• mov

1. We are using a simple JSON file as our db at this moment, ~/.mo_hash.json In order to proceed, there are two approaches here that we have to keep in mind.

First Approach

You have already something organized and you have a folder for that, for example /home/user/my_memories. That said, let's use the current folder as our target-dir

• You can set a target dir using mo.py setup target-dir.
• Once you have your target-dir set, we can move along and load our data with all the medias you have. In order to do that, you can run mo.py db reload

Note: If you have a huge number of medias, this can spend some time, so please, be patiente.

• Once the load is done, you would be ok to move forward. Let's say you have a folder with some pictures that you would like to add to your organized place, and let say this folder is located at /home/user/pictures, so you would be ok to execute mo.py import-files source-dir /home/user/pictures. This will allow the app to scan all the files under that structure recursively, and as consequence, this will create a folder located at <YOU TARGER-DIR HERE>/MO_DIR with some subdirectories, that will be similar to below.

/home/user/my_memories/MO_DIR/
├── 0000
│   └── 00
│       ├── PICTURE
│       └── VIDEO
├── 1999
│   ├── 05
│   │   └── PICTURE
│   └── 06
│       └── PICTURE
├── 2000
│   ├── 03
│   │   └── PICTURE
│   ├── 11
│   │   └── VIDEO
│   └── 12
│       └── VIDEO
├── 2023
│   ├── 01
│   │   ├── PICTURE
│   │   └── VIDEO
│   ├── 02
│   │   ├── PICTURE
│   │   └── VIDEO
│   ├── 03
│   │   ├── PICTURE
│   │   └── VIDEO
│   ├── 04
│   │   ├── PICTURE
│   │   └── VIDEO
│   ├── 05
│   │   ├── PICTURE
│   │   └── VIDEO
│   ├── 06
│   │   ├── PICTURE
│   │   └── VIDEO
│   ├── 07
│   │   ├── PICTURE
│   │   └── VIDEO
│   ├── 08
│   │   ├── PICTURE
│   │   └── VIDEO
│   └── 09
│       ├── PICTURE
│       └── VIDEO
└── UNKNOWN
    ├── PICTURE
    └── VIDEO

Above you can notice that we have some medias from different years, also, 0000 and UNKNOWN. Basically, if the machine was not set properly with the date and time, or if the bateries for the old cameras was not charged, then you can see things like this. Now, about the unknown, this will happen with all the medias that someone send to you via IM or Instant Message in general, for example, whatsapp.

Keep in mind, for all the operation above, your pictures will not be deleted, and at the end of each operation that you do, a complete report will be generated in your home dir under the folder ~/mo_reports, with the results of your actions. With that, you would be ok to move on and remove the files from the source, once now, you have a single copy on your MO_DIR folder, organized and happy.

Second Approach

You have only a lot of directories with a bunch of pictures, nothing organized and you are really looking for something that will help you out. If this is the case, you can create a new empty folder that will be used as your target-dir, for example, /home/user/my_memories

• You can set a target dir using mo.py setup target-dir.
• Let's say you have a folder with some pictures that you would like to add to your organized place, and let say this folder is located at /home/user/pictures, so you would be ok to execute mo.py import-files source-dir /home/user/pictures. This will allow the app to scan all the files under that structure recursively, and as consequence, this will create a folder located at <YOU TARGER-DIR HERE>/MO_DIR with some subdirectories, that will be similar to below.

/home/user/my_memories/MO_DIR/
├── 0000
│   └── 00
│       ├── PICTURE
│       └── VIDEO
├── 1999
│   ├── 05
│   │   └── PICTURE
│   └── 06
│       └── PICTURE
├── 2000
│   ├── 03
│   │   └── PICTURE
│   ├── 11
│   │   └── VIDEO
│   └── 12
│       └── VIDEO
├── 2023
│   ├── 01
│   │   ├── PICTURE
│   │   └── VIDEO
│   ├── 02
│   │   ├── PICTURE
│   │   └── VIDEO
│   ├── 03
│   │   ├── PICTURE
│   │   └── VIDEO
│   ├── 04
│   │   ├── PICTURE
│   │   └── VIDEO
│   ├── 05
│   │   ├── PICTURE
│   │   └── VIDEO
│   ├── 06
│   │   ├── PICTURE
│   │   └── VIDEO
│   ├── 07
│   │   ├── PICTURE
│   │   └── VIDEO
│   ├── 08
│   │   ├── PICTURE
│   │   └── VIDEO
│   └── 09
│       ├── PICTURE
│       └── VIDEO
└── UNKNOWN
    ├── PICTURE
    └── VIDEO

Above you can notice that we have some medias from different years, also, 0000 and UNKNOWN. Basically, if the machine was not set properly with the date and time, or if the bateries for the old cameras was not charged, then you can see things like this. Now, about the unknown, this will happen with all the medias that someone send to you via IM or Instant Message in general, for example, whatsapp.

Keep in mind, for all the operation above, your pictures will not be deleted, and at the end of each operation that you do, a complete report will be generated in your home dir under the folder ~/mo_reports, with the results of your actions. With that, you would be ok to move on and remove the files from the source, once now, you have a single copy on your MO_DIR folder, organized and happy.

In the future, I'll add a video presenting how to use it and all the features that we have.

Please, I hope you enjoy it and any feedback will be very welcome. It could be via email waldirio@gmail.com or via issue