Script for Organizing Smartphone Photos into Folders by Date: Creating Directories & Copying Files

I have this problem:
I rip photos from smartphones to one folder.
I need a script that puts files (photos) in the directories it creates.
The directory names that would be: year. month. day.
To create these folders, the script would have to use the image file property: Date Taken or get it by name. And one folder for a different number of files - sometimes for one and sometimes for several hundred.
The most common file names are (example):
20170325_104914 or
IMG_20170825_204256316 (phone dependent)

Is there anyone able to create such a script (the point is to save it in a .bat file)

Hello

Put it in the photo catalog

Cool.
The script works fine.
What needs to be changed to have dots separating the year, month and day in the folder name?

Everything works fine.
Thank you very much.
For so many years, many hours lost in manual sorting ...
And it was enough to ask on the electrode

Hi,
I will connect to the topic, because I have a similar problem and also need help writing the script.
I have some example files in the directory:
aaaa.xxx
bbbb.xxx
cccc.xxx
cccc.xxy
dddd.yyy
dddd.xxy
dddd.xxz
eeee.zzz
ffff.zzz
ffff.xxy
I would like the script to create the directories aaaa, bbbb, cccc, dddd, eeee and ffff based on the files, and copy the files to them to aaaa - aaaa.xxx; to bbbb - bbbb.xxx; to cccc - cccc.xxx and cccc.xxy; to dddd - dddd.xxx, dddd.xxy and dddd.xxz; to eeee - eeee.zzz; a to ffff - ffff.zzz and ffff.xxy.
So far I have been able to spit all files with the DIR command into the csv file (dir / b> file.csv) and then in Excel I divided the file names into name and extension. I was removing takes and using the joins.texts function for the command, creating one to create a directory based on name and the other to copy files into a directory based on name. Unfortunately, this method is also time-consuming and not very versatile.

Hello
Should you copy or move?

I actually wrote that he copied, but I mean he would transfer them. If the script was similar to the above, I could fix xcopy / copy on move, but plus for perceptiveness. Alternatively, if you could manage to include the four-character extensions and the fact that there are spaces in the filename and different lengths of the filenames. I started trying something myself and only made myself a bigger mess. I have created a lot of empty directories that are components of file names. A request to describe the script as well - I prefer a fishing rod to a fish.

Hello
Put the bat in the directory where you have these files

Thanks,
For those who would like to use the script for something else.
@Echo. off - disable command display
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion - enable variable scope referring only to this batch file

for %% i in (*) to (- starting a FOR loop for the variable "i" which takes the values of individual files "*" from the directory
if / i not "%% ~ xi" == ". bat" (- if the file extension name "%% ~ xi" is not equal to ".bat", run the commands
set "f = %% ~ ni" & set "p = %% i" - assign the variable f the value of the file name and assign the variable p the value of the variable i
if not exist "! f!" md "! f!" - if the directory with the name contained in the variable "f" does not exist, create it
move "! p!" "! f!")) - move the file named in the variable "p" to the directory named in the variable "f", ending IF commands and ending the FOR loop

If I have made a mistake, please correct it.

Hello,

I would like to attach to the topic. I have a very similar problem with sorting documents. The files are in pdf format. named "Skan_20170116153912". I would like to sort the files in the folders YEAR> Month> Day> a file called "scan_20170116153912. More or less I would like the path to look like. I will add that the files arrive every day so this script would be used at least once a week.

e.g.
Folder named "2018"
this folder would contain folders with the names of all months ("JANUARY", "FEBRUARY" etc.)
and in each of the folders with the name of the month there would be folders with the name of the full date (e.g. 2018-01-01, 2018-01-02 etc.)
And the corresponding documents would be moved to each dated folder.

example: scans \ 2018 \ JANUARY \ 02-01-2018 \ scanned_20180102153912.pdf

Pyra19 wrote:

example: scans \ 2018 \ JANUARY \ 02-01-2018 \ scanned_20180102153912.pdf

Good advice: Do not use Polish letters in the names of files and folders.

@ Pyra19 : self-study material

Thank you, that's what I meant.

Welcome.

so I would gently like to attach to the topic. Everything above generally suits me hula beautifully.
however, I have a question about one additional variant.
I need something that will create for me and move files to created folders after the strings contained in it.

I have something that creates a pdf with the employee's number: from 1 character to 9 inclusive and this is to be the key to creating the file.

i.e. e.g.

a0989a__1_kowalski_jan_za_2017.pdf
a0989a__1_kowalski_jan_za_2016.pdf
a9121a_21_kowalska_janina_za_2017.pdf
a9121a_21_kowalska_janina_za_2016.pdf

e.t.c.

fixed key / element is here: a0989a__1 and a9121a_21 within these characters I would like directories to be created in sequence:

a0989a__1 with files: a0989a__1_kowalski_jan_za_2017.pdf, a0989a__1_kowalski_jan_za_2016.pdf
a9121a_21 with files: a9121a_21_kowalska_janina_za_2017.pdf, a9121a_21_kowalska_janina_za_2016.pdf

thank you in advance.

bugaj777nbl wrote:

I need something that will create and move files to the created folders by the string of characters in it

Hello
and where do you see the problem? by rewriting any of the above-mentioned script

Hello.

thanks for the answer. The problem is that I do not have any basic knowledge about what is written here. I admit that I need it, that it works, and when I sit down for a while, I more or less understand what's going on, but without basic knowledge, I honestly don't know how to move or in any direction.

So I will be grateful for any tips where you can learn, not to talk about "cash" :)

greeting, M.