Photo sorter?

[Zoinks]

I've done a bunch of google and AT searches for things like "photo organizer" and "picture sorter" and I keep coming up with recommendations for things like Picassa. So forgive me if this has been posted elsewhere, but I'm looking for something that will copy pictures to folders based on the month taken. I mean actually create folders such as "2008-Dec" and actually move the jpeg file from an unsorted folder into the monthly folders.

Nothing wrong with Picassa or anything, I just don't want tens of thousands of photos in a single directory.

 

[Fardringle]

These programs claim to do it (and have trial versions you can try) but they aren't free. I haven't tried them myself so I don't know how well they work.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/idealphotosorter.html
http://www.styopkin.com/automatic_photo_sorter.html



I went through this same problem a couple of years ago with thousands of pictures from my old point and shoot camera (before I realized that I actually could/should organize them). I ended up just sorting them manually using the "Date Picture Taken" detail option in Windows Explorer. All new photos get automatically sorted by the FinePix Viewer program using the same naming/folder scheme when it downloads new pictures from my camera so I don't have to do it manually any more, but that only works with pictures from the camera - it won't sort images already on the PC's hard drive.

To do the manual sorting, use Windows Explorer to go to the folder(s) where your pictures are stored, then click on View>Choose Details. Scroll down to the bottom of the list and click on the box next to "Date Photo Taken" then click OK. Now, click on the new "Date Photo Taken" column header in the file list to sort them by date. After that you can select groups at a time based on date and move them to individual folders. It's not automatic, but it works. Of course, this method does require that your camera saves date information in the EXIF data of the photos. If not, you can do the same thing with the "Date Created" field.



edit: You can also give this Google search a try. I don't feel like clicking on all of the links to read the program descriptions... 🙂

 

[edcarman]

This might work:
http://www.tucows.com/preview/502808

I searched for file sorters, rather than photo sorters. I'm sure there are more out there, but I stopped at the first one.

 

[Zoinks]

Thanks both of you. The Amok Exif sorter is extremely flexible and does exactly what I need, if you can get past a bit of German.