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Keeping it on topic :-) Shotwell, http://shotwell-project.org/doc/html/, is the default photo manager for Gnome. I don't use it myself but it looks like it has al the tagging and searching features needed to organise your photos. I use a combination of Rapid Photo Downloader (RPD), https://www.damonlynch.net/rapid/, and Darktable, https://www.darktable.org/. I pull the images off my SD card with RPD which puts them in to a yyyy/yyyymmdd/ structured directory based on the EXIF date onfo. in the images. I then import into Darktable (leaving the files in the same place) and use Darktable's tagging to organise the photos. It would also be very easy to roll your own command line importer which used the same information to put the images in whatever directory structure you wanted. I vaguely remember doing this in the past (using exiftool, I think). Cheers, Pete On 22/02/18 18:54, Roland Tarver via list wrote: > ÂÂ > Hi Folks, > > Potentially off topic - depending on the answer(s). > > Just wondering how folk manage their photos and videos over the long term? > > I have just backed up 37G (!) of photos and videos from the micro SD card in my > phone. > My phone creates all of these files in a single directory with file names as > follows... > > 20161010_084048.jpg > 20161010_112837.jpg > 20161010_112921.jpg > 20161010_145359.jpg > 20161010_145410.jpg > 20161010_145413.jpg > 20161010_145427.mp4 > 20161010_145556.jpg > 20161010_145607.jpg > 20161010_145608.jpg > 20161010_145609.jpg > 20161010_145617.jpg > 20161010_145618.jpg > 20161010_145638.jpg > 20161010_145642.jpg > 20161010_145656.jpg > 20161010_145657.jpg > 20161010_145812.jpg > 20161010_145815.jpg > 20161010_150001.jpg > 20161010_150016.jpg > 20161010_150053.jpg > 20161010_150055.jpg > 20161010_150056.jpg > 20161010_150623.jpg > 20161010_150632.jpg > 20161010_150645.mp4 > 20161011_185846.mp4 > 20161016_114354.jpg > > There are around 2700 of such files at present. > > I am thinking about writing a bash script that takes the 2700 files and moves them > into a more > sensible directory structure based on filename. > > I was thinking something like ~/photos/year/month/ > > I would then manually add additional directories to further organise > my photos by event. ~/photos/year/month/event > > So, an example would be... > > ~/photos/2016/june/CERN_Visit/ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ < CERN visit - wow!!! > > ~/photos/2016/august/christophersBirthday/ÂÂ <lots of birthday photos in this > directory> > ~/photos/2016/august/shopingInHongKong/ÂÂÂÂÂ <A quick whip round the shops in HK> > ~/photos/2016/august/ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ <all other photos NOT associated with > a particular event> > > So, the above is what I am considering doing. But before I go to the effort, I > figured > everyone here would have the same "problem" and have solved it already in a way > that works for them...? > > Do you use some pre-existing photo/video management software? > > (which, I personally, am reluctant to do since I fear losing complete control of my > data and becoming reliant on one piece of software.) > > Do you do something similar to what I am proposing? Perhaps in a better way? > > I hope all that made some sense? > > Thanks in advance for your bright ideas. > > Cheers roly :-) > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq