Organize a total mess of several thousand jpegs in time-stamped folders

Hello!

Location:

My collection of pictures of sisters is a total mess without any rational system for her. Its just illogical structured with files with generic keywords and thousands of files in each folder. For example, it's a folder called "travel" where she just dumped thousands of unique files of 10-year vacation. Not the word 'various' and 'misc' records. You get the idea. * lol *.

What I'm doing:

It seems like all the pictures have the correct EXIF data on their property. So what I want to do is to restructure the collection records (with EXIF dates) in a way similar to this:

"/ various/filename.jpg"-> "/ 2012_06_25/filename.jpg".

"/ friends/filename.jpg"-> "/ 2012_05_01/filename.jpg".

and so on.

At least then he gets some kind of chronological structure to it. I want to physically organize files, not organize them through a database.

What is the best approach to do something like that? I guess I could just batch rename everything from the EXIF with Bridge and then organize from there - but it will always be very tedious. There must be a better way (anyone know PS/Bridge scripts that can do this? More automated best. I use the bridge and I don't have LR - but if LR can do what it * could * be whats finally push me to buy it.

I appreciate very much all the advice on how to go about it!

It is a bit rough and ready, but should do the job.

Copy and paste the script in ExtendScript Toolkit, this program is installed at the same time as Photoshop.

This can be found:-C:\Program Files (x 86) \Adobe\Adobe utility - CS5

Run the script, it will open a bridge if it was closed, he would then invite for two records.

The first folder he wants is the top level of the images folder.

The second folder is the top-level folder where all new folders will be created and the files moved.

This second issue will contain also a duplication error log or it cannot process the file.

There will be a created folder called noExif and files will be placed here if no exif data

Once the script is run to fetch a cup of coffee, the script will give a warning message when finished.

#target bridge
app.bringToFront();
main();
function main(){
var folders =[];
var topLevel = Folder.selectDialog("Please select top level folder");
var topLevelOut = Folder.selectDialog("Please select top level output folder");
var errorLog = File(topLevelOut + "/ErrorLog.txt");
errorLog.open("e", "TEXT", "????");
errorLog.seek(0,2);
$.os.search(/windows/i)  != -1 ? errorLog.lineFeed = 'windows'  : errorLog.lineFeed = 'macintosh';
folders = FindAllFolders(topLevel, folders);
folders.unshift(topLevel);
for(var f in folders){
var FileList = folders[f].getFiles(/\.(jpg|jpe|jpeg|gif|eps|dng|bmp|tif|tiff|psd|crw|cr2|rle|dib|cin|dpx|ps|pcd|pict|vda|icb|vst|wbm|sct|pbm|flm|psb|exr|pcx|pdp|nef|dcr|dc2|erf|raf|orf|tga|mrw|mos|srf|pic|pct|pxr|pdd|pef|png|x3f|raw)$/i);
for(var z in FileList){
    var newFolder = getExifDate(FileList[z]);
    var moveToFolder = Folder(topLevelOut + "/" + newFolder);
    if(!moveToFolder.exists) moveToFolder.create();
    var testThumb = File(moveToFolder + "/" + FileList[z].name);
    if(!testThumb.exists){
    try{
    new Thumbnail(FileList[z]).moveTo(moveToFolder);
    }catch(e){errorLog.writeln("Unable to process :- " + decodeURI(FileList[z])); continue;}
    }else{
        errorLog.writeln(decodeURI(FileList[z]) + " Is a duplicate in " + decodeURI(moveToFolder));
        }
    }
}
errorLog.close();
alert("Script completed");
function getExifDate(fileName){
if (ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript == undefined) ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject('lib:AdobeXMPScript');
try{
var xmpf = new XMPFile(File(fileName).fsName, XMPConst.FILE_UNKNOWN, XMPConst.OPEN_FOR_READ );
}catch(e) {errorLog.writeln("Unable to process :- " + decodeURI(fileName)); return "noExif";}
var xmp = xmpf.getXMP();
var exifdate = xmp.getProperty(XMPConst.NS_EXIF, "DateTimeOriginal");
xmpf.closeFile(XMPConst.CLOSE_UPDATE_SAFELY);
try{
return exifdate.toString().match(/^.{10}/).toString().replace(/-/g,'_');
}catch(e){return "noExif";}
}
function FindAllFolders( srcFolderStr, destArray) {
 var fileFolderArray = Folder( srcFolderStr ).getFiles();
 for ( var i = 0; i < fileFolderArray.length; i++ ) {
  var fileFoldObj = fileFolderArray[i];
  if ( fileFoldObj instanceof File ) {
  } else {
         destArray.push( Folder(fileFoldObj) );
  FindAllFolders( fileFoldObj.toString(), destArray );
  }
 }
 return destArray;
};
}

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