Since my last post, I’ve continued running the script to process my images and am getting close to being done. Given that, there are a few things I would like to have done differently:
- Right now the script organizes pictures as: <model>/<year>/<month>/<day>/<picture/video> While that works ok, it does mean that to find a specific picture I need to know which camera model took it. I’m starting to think I should have turned that around: <year>/<month>/<day>/<model>. At least then I would only need to know the approximate day they were taken. However, I do like the idea of grabbing all mobile phone pics/video and being able to move them en masse.
- Videos don’t, by default, include the camera model. Not really sure why this is, but that does make it kind of annoying to sort out. I have to build some strange rules/heuristics/guesses to determine which camera took what picture. Maybe not an issue for deduping, but definitely a pain if I want to keep them separated into Mobile/Non-Mobile.
- MacOS’s mdls command does a great job at dragging the capture date from videos, but only if the file is mounted locally on the Mac itself. This includes FAT32 and other Windows-based file systems. If you mount the same file system via NTFS, it gets confused. As such, I’ve had to leave behind AVI files so I can pull them local later. (Though, as I think of it, maybe mediainfo would work for AVI files … not sure why I didn’t try that)
- My previous script only looks at the first conflict, meaning that once I have a single non-duplicated file, any more duplicates may be copied repeatedly. That’s my next correction.
Overall, the process has been a bit of a pain in the back side and definitely slow, but I’m almost to the point where I have one canonical copy of all my pictures. (Well, actually two because I’m working off my local OneDrive mirror).
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