Photo-Organizer

This Python script automatically organizes photos from a specified source folder into subdirectories based on their EXIF capture date. It's especially useful for photographers or hobbyists with unorganized photo dumps.

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🚀 Features

• Organizes images by date taken (from EXIF metadata)
• Moves files to folders like YYYY-MM-DD/
• Supports multiple image formats: .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .tiff, .bmp
• Processes files in batches using multi-threading for speed
• Includes a clean progress bar with tqdm
• Logs info and errors to help debug

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🧰 Requirements

• Python 3.7+
• Required libraries:

  pip install pillow tqdm

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🗂️ Directory Structure

Before running:

D:/
└── Photos42024/
    ├── image1.jpg
    ├── image2.png
    └── ...

After running:

D:/Programming/Python/Project/Organized Photos/
└── 2024-04-01/
    ├── image1.jpg
    └── image2.png

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⚙️ Configuration

You can modify these constants in the script:

PHOTO_DIR = 'D:/Photos42024/'  # Source folder of your images
PARENT_DIR = 'D:/Programming/Python/Project/Organized Photos/'  # Destination folder
BATCH_SIZE = 10  # Number of photos to process per thread batch
DELAY = 1  # Not used currently, reserved for future throttling

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▶️ How to Run

python organize_photos.py

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📝 Logging Output

Logs helpful messages:

2025-05-01 14:00:00 [INFO] Processing 200 files...
2025-05-01 14:00:01 [WARNING] Capture date not found in image4.png
2025-05-01 14:00:05 [INFO] Moved image1.jpg to 2024-04-01/

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🛠️ Future Improvements

• Handle files without EXIF by using file creation/modification time
• Support for videos (MP4, MOV)
• Add a GUI with drag-and-drop
• Option to copy instead of move

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📄 License

This project is open-source under the MIT License.

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🤝 Contributions

Feel free to fork, open issues, or submit pull requests to improve or customize this tool!