Reorganising Photos

joelk2 · 15 Dec 2015 at 09:29

Hello chaps,

ive decided to make some sense of my photo mess on my computer.

i have a number of folders on my computer with no real naming conventions or tagging. i want to sort all my photos into folders by month. What would be the best way of going about this?

im giving picasa a go at the moment, can you reorganise in this software?

its currently sat at 42,000 photos and still scanning. :eek:

Mujja · 15 Dec 2015 at 09:46

The free Photo Gallery is easy to use and does a good job.

You can sort by date taken and auto-rename / move to a new folder. I try to keep all my photos as .\YYYY-MM\YYYY-MM-DD-XXX.jpg

You can also add tags which can be viewed in Windows Media Centre on a HTPC.

joelk2 · 15 Dec 2015 at 09:57

how do you auto rename/move?

Cyanide · 15 Dec 2015 at 11:03

I haven't got a clue about Picasa but I'm about to attempt the same myself with Adobe (I think Bridge can do it). I've got ~80k files that need reorganising - not looking forwards to it!

joelk2 · 15 Dec 2015 at 11:57

Cyanide said:
I haven't got a clue about Picasa but I'm about to attempt the same myself with Adobe (I think Bridge can do it). I've got ~80k files that need reorganising - not looking forwards to it!

playing with the windows one and picasa it doesnt look like its going to move them. back to the drawing board.

ended on 58k files.

Mujja · 15 Dec 2015 at 12:24

I haven't used Photos Gallery for a while, most of my stuff get uploaded to and stays on Google Photos.

I don't remember how I did it, maybe rename the photos and then cut and paste.

joelk2 · 15 Dec 2015 at 12:32

Mujja said:
I haven't used Photos Gallery for a while, most of my stuff get uploaded to and stays on Google Photos.

I don't remember how I did it, maybe rename the photos and then cut and paste.

yeah i think the cut and paste thing is the key to the moving of the files. im trying to find something that will automate this whole process.

I think lightroom is going to be the answer to be honest.

import photos, you can then choose where you want them imported too. (choose a new folder and it will add them to folders by date)

Mujja · 15 Dec 2015 at 12:56

Are you able to change the source when importing, e.g. from a removable drive to a folder?

joelk2 · 15 Dec 2015 at 13:00

Mujja said:
Are you able to change the source when importing, e.g. from a removable drive to a folder?

yeah, you can either choose

add to catalogue (current location)
move and add
copy and add

so i copy and import from //Homeserver/Photos/Stupid Folder Name 1

to

//Homeserver/Organised Photos/Year/Month

i chose copy to start with just incase. first 4000 seemed to go fine so will just move from now on.

i can then just do another import

//Homeserver/Photos/Stupid Folder Name 2