iris

README

iris

A streamlined CLI application designed to efficiently rename and organize your pictures and videos by date, making it perfect for locally merging, sorting and backing up your media from multiple sources.

Features

• consistent renaming and sorting of files based on the time of recording, optimized for viewing in the file browser
• reliable extraction of the recording time from the file metadata or from the filename if data is missing
• automatic handling of duplicate images
• high stability and security through sophisticated error handling

Although I consider the program to be sufficiently safe, it is still relatively young and has potential bugs. Please consider this before entrusting it with your images.

Naming and Sorting

Iris renames each file (if a recording date was found) according to the following scheme: year-month-day_hour-minute-second.extension. The file is then moved to a subfolder named after the year and quarter in the year-quarter format. However, no normal quatals are used to better accommodate typical vacation periods. Instead, all quatals are moved back by two months. For example, February 2024 will still fall into quarter 2023-4 and December 2024 already into quarter 2025-1.

Usage

1. download the appropriate file for your architecture from the releases page
2. create a config.yaml file in the same folder as the executable.
3. configure the script to your needs using the sample config
4. run the executable in a terminal

Example Config

input_paths:
  -  "/your/input/path"
output_path: "/your/output/path"
move_files: true
remove_duplicates: false

License

GPL-3.0