Pictures from Google Photos, ICloud, or your Camera... all sorted!

Installation

Install the library with

pip install sortpics

Main features

• The library only renames (moves) images. No deletion or copy occurs.
• When two or more images have identical timestamp at the resolution of a second, the name will include the millisecond.
• If, despite the above, two files have the same target, only the file with the largest size on disk is moved.
• Animated movies (joint .JPG/.MOV files) are moved in pair.
• Custom names are preserved, e.g. My cute cat.jpg is renamed to e.g. 2019-12/2019-12-12 19.06.44 My cute cat.jpg.
• And, in case you change your mind, sortpics generates a undo script 😃

Sample run

Normalize your image collection with

sortpics

in your picture folder. The output will be like this:

mv '2020-05-23/Custom name.jpg' '2020-05/2020-05-23 17.55.43 Custom name.jpg'
mv 2020-05-23/IMG_1554.JPG '2020-05/2020-05-23 16.55.13.JPG'
mv 2020-05-23/IMG_1555.JPG '2020-05/2020-05-23 16.55.43.JPG'
mv 2020-05-23/IMG_1555.MOV '2020-05/2020-05-23 16.55.43.MOV'
mv 2020/05/23/IMG_1556.JPG '2020-05/2020-05-23 18.55.13.123.JPG'
mv 2020/05/23/IMG_1557.JPG '2020-05/2020-05-23 18.55.13.251.JPG'
# Rerun with --no-test to rename the files, or execute 'bash .sortpics_test_2020-05-23T15.16.27.643763.sh'
# Undo the renaming with 'bash .sortpics_undo_test_2020-05-23T15.16.27.643763.sh'
# When you're done, clean up empty directories with 'find . -type d -empty -delete'

Note that the above only proposes a file renaming, and does not move any file at this stage. If you agree with the proposal, you can run the script generated by sortpics, or run sortpics --no-test.

Images and movies are renamed based on their creation date. For instance, an image taken on Dec 25th, 2019 at 15:07:12 will be moved to 2019-12/2019-12-25 15.07.12.jpg.

Useful links

• Google Takeout is a convenient way to download your Google Photo collection
• Nathan Broadbent's ICloud Photo Downloader works well with ICloud
• Adrian Lopez's fdupes for finding exact duplicates.

Develop in this package

To develop in this package, clone the project, and then create a dedicated Python environment with

conda env create --file environment.yml

and activate it with

conda activate sortpics

Then install the development version with

pip install -e .

If you want to contribute back** your changes, please install the pre-commit package with

pre-commit install

The tests for this package are in the tests folder, and can be run with

pytest