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[Chris Tooley <euxneks@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:31 AM, louis taylor <louis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello there everyone on the mailing list!
>
> I am writing here to ask the guidance of the ubuntu photographers about a
> small problem I have.
> I have about 3000 photographs (taken by about 6 different cameras) in a
> filesystem with not too much order (photographs placed in a jumble of
> directorys).
> I would like to put these in a neat filesystem with all of the photographs
> taken in 2009 in the folder '2009', with the photographs in this subdivided
> into folders orded by the month, with these divided into the weeks.
>
> I could write a script to do this for me (by reading the metadata) in
> python, and I was wondering if:
> a) someone has made something like this before.
> b) this would be useful for any ubuntu photographer.
> c) there is something that I haven't thought of which makes this whole thing
> quite difficult.
>
> --
> --Louis Taylor--
> http://louistaylor.wordpress.com/
>

I've made a very simple perl script that does exactly what you're
asking for, check it out in the attached - I use it regularly, if
there's enough interest I'll put it up on a page or something :)

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