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A batch file for automatically renaming and organising images and videos into folders by date.
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Rename.bat
REM Use exiftool -s <filename> to list the tag names available for a file
REM Google Photos uses these if it doesn't find any metadata (and it doesn't do
REM a good job of looking).
exiftool "-FileCreateDate<DateTimeOriginal" "-FileModifyDate<DateTimeOriginal" *.*
exiftool "-Directory<DateTimeOriginal" -d "%%Y/%%B" *.jpg *.mp4 *.mts *.m2ts *.mov
exiftool "-Directory<CreateDate" -d "%%Y/%%B" *.jpg *.mp4 *.mts *.m2ts *.mov
exiftool "-Directory<CreationDate" -d "%%Y/%%B" *.wmv
REM Fallbacks in case we failed to match any metadata
exiftool "-Directory<FileCreateDate" -d "%%Y/%%B" *.jpg *.mp4 *.mts *.m2ts *.mov *.wmv
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