Photosweeper not deleting9/3/2023 I have been spending some spare time this christmas to extend the workflow on how to do a massive photo cleanup from years of accumulating files and duplicates in iPhoto, Aperture and Lightroom. Create folder structure with 4-digit year names at root level and folders with YYYYMMDD as level 2: Rename all files with date-based names:Įxiftool '-filenamePhotoSweeper GUI to remove dupes and trash themħ. Rm -r /Volumes/Bilder3/*.xmp rm -r /Volumes/Bilder3/*.XMP Ingest XMP metadata into parent image files:Įxiftool -r -ext cr2 -ext jpg -ext jpeg -ext tiff -ext tif -ext nef -tagsfromfile %d%f.xmp -xmp Substitute all blank spaces in file- and foldernames with "_" (underscore):Ĥ. Export all images + XMPs from Aperture, iPhoto and Lightroom to a new HDģ. THERMO NUCLEAR TIDY-UP OF IMAGE FOLDER STRUCTUREġ. I would be very happy for any help to piece together items on the list below or modify the list all together. I am trying to piece together something that is safe to use on a Mac with a minimum of lost data, and that everyone with the same challenge as me could use. Personally, I hope that exiftool can help me in the endevour to do a massive thermo nuclear cleanup of a vast image collection of images with lots of duplicates and non-consistent folder- and filnames. In any case - I would appreciate any tips on how to do a large image cleanup using Exiftool and other shell script elements. The other way could of course be to try to embed the XMP metadata inside the RAW files (if possible) before starting the renaming/moving process. CR2 files in pairs while moving them to date-based folders without creating XMP orphans, as they do have different creation dates. However - I have not worked out how to rename. The plan is to remove duplicates (PhotoSweeper seems like a good alternative).Īfter that, it seems natural to rename files and create the appropriate folder structure and I have found several ExifTool statements to do just that. I started with exporting all my image files from iPhoto, Aperture and Lightroom into a folder structure. After making a mess for the last 15 years, I finally decided to try do a massive photo cleanup in terms of removing duplicates, renaming files (yyyymmdd_hhmmss.ext) and creating a tidy date-based folder hierarchy.
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