phosort 1.0.8

Typo fix. Improved usage documentation.

Copyright 2010 Anthony Campbell (anthonycampbell.co.uk)

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phosort

Simple script to sort a directory of photos and videos. Designed to break down a directory into yearly creation date sub directories. Also rename files to provide a more consistent and readable listing.

Please look at the CHANGES file in each project to see what has changed since the last tag.

Dependencies:

• hachoir-core-1.3.3

• hachoir-parser-1.3.4

• hachoir-metadata-1.3.3

These packages are available from the ./dependencies directory. Simply unzip and run the “python setup.py install” command as root on all three libraries.

PIP install:

pip install phosort

Manual install:

Download the provided source and execute it using the following command:

python setup.py install

Usage:

python phosort.py [directory] [option]

Contribute:

If you wish to contribute to the project you can find the latest source code on GitHub:

http://wiki.github.com/acampbell3000/python-scripts/

Further information:

phosort is now also available on PyPi Package Index (PyPI) (aka, the “Cheeseshop”):

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/phosort

Special thanks:

To Alex Elder (alexelder.co.uk) for his numerous fixes and improvements. Cheers dude!

Version 1.0.8

Release notes 1.0.8 (30th August, 2010)

• Updated usage notes.

• Add keywords to setup.py.

• Output typo fix.

Release notes 1.0.7 (28th August, 2010)

• Added graceful handling of private (‘-r’) folders on Linux.

• Added a clarity comment for case-insensitive filetype regex.

• Shortened the date matching regex to include fewer greedy quantifiers while

  still matching the same date format.

• Fixed a small bug in the regexes used to identify allowed file types.

• Fixed recursive bug where previous sorted media is re-sorted.

Release notes 1.0.6 (27th August, 2010)

• Keyboard interrupt handling.

• Test script updates.

• Improved output.

Release notes 1.0.5 (27th August, 2010)

• Updated to change log text to support reStructured text.

• Uploaded release notes to reflect phosort PyPi upload location.

Release notes 1.0.4 (27th August, 2010)

• Egg descriptor file fix.

• Upload to the cheese shop.

Release notes 1.0.3 (25th August, 2010)

• Egg descriptor file introduction.

Release notes 1.0.2 (25th August, 2010)

• Removal of EXIF package dependency

• Introduction to the hachoir metadata library.

• Provision of hachoir libraries.

• Retrieve real creation date for videos and images from meta data.

• Small bug fixes due to refactoring.

Release notes 1.0.1 (24th August, 2010)

• Small improvements.

• Introduction into copy only mode.

Release notes 1.0.0 (24th August, 2010)

• Match correct files within current directory.

• Initial sort implementation.

• Introduction to simulate only mode.

• Introduction to image only mode.

• Introduction to replace spaces for file and directory.

• Introduction to timestamp file mode.

• Final release.

Release notes 0.0.1 (23rd August, 2010)

• Initial release.