NatyBeen busy deep diving into #digikam and #darktable... But I've entered a deeper rabbit hole —my really messy photo #metadata! Learnt a lot about #xmp #exif and #iptc, and using #exiftool (which is an amazing tool by Phil Harvey). #PhotoManagement #dam #photometadata
Anthony Bosio@eclecticpassions Yep. I’m ashamed to say I gave up about a year ago. I’m a developer but I was overwhelmed with trying to write a script that would re-file 10 years of my images in YYYY/MM/DD folders based on so many different pieces of metadata being available on different images.
@abosio That's a shame... I mostly have photos organised well in folders according to camera body used + year/month +/- events (if not just day to day snapshots). The trouble I have is all my phone photos... Different phones over the years, duplicates, screenshots mixed in there make it hard for me to even start organizing it! Hoping there will be some good AI tool to help me with that possibly in the future.
@eclecticpassions Have you looked at Immich? It might be just what you need for that.
After I sent that reply to you I got inspired to go poke at my project again. Part of my problem was that I’m combining images from Apple Photos, mostly from phones, and images from DSLRs I was managing in Lightroom.
@eclecticpassions The latter collection is at least in yyyy/yyyymmdd folders. I can straighten those out just with the folder names. But I rediscovered that I was able to export my Apple Photos library by “moments” into folders like “Mon. dd, yyyy”.
So I think I’m actually good. I don’t need to deal the inconsistent exif data to get everything into the structure I want.
@abosio I read about Immich but haven't tested it out... I really should spend some time on this! Thanks for the recommendation. :)