the photo-video-sorter is a small cli tool to sort photos or videos by exif date or ctime as fallback into a folder structure.

e.g. a file with date 2021-12-24 will be moved into this folder structure by default strategy monthYear

{destinationFolder}/2021/12/

to keep the ctime and mtime original

pvs using exiftool to extract exif date from files

so we need the exiftool package for your system

on macOS

sudo brew update
sudo brew install exiftool

https://exiftool.org/install.html

Global

npm install -g photo-video-sorter

Local

npm install photo-video-sorter

Options:
  -s, --strategy <monthYear|dayMonthYear|year>  the strategy for sorting files into folder (default: "monthYear")
  -sf, --sourceFolder <path>                    the sourceFolder to scan for files
  -df, --destinationFolder <path>               the destination folder for the sorted files
  -t, --fileType <image | video>                the file type looking for (default: "image")
  -h, --help                                    display help for command

pvs -s dayMonthYear -sf /Users/..../Photos -df /Volumes/Photos -t image

pvs -s dayMonthYear -sf /Users/..../Videos -df /Volumes/Videos -t video

npx pvs -s dayMonthYear -sf /Users/..../Photos -df /Volumes/Photos -t image

npx pvs -s dayMonthYear -sf /Users/..../Videos -df /Volumes/Videos -t video

npm install

npm run serve

npm run build