/gdrive-media-organizer

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Google Drive Media Organizer

Why?

To make a short story long... 😏 My Google Photos from my Android automatically backs up to my Google Drive. This of course is a good thing, but since all of the files end up in the same folder, it has gotten close to impossible to look through hundreds and hundreds of pictures/movies.

So, an idea struck me - why not write a script that would parse out the year, month and date from the filename, create the appropriate folders and move the files in there?

The rest is history...

How do I run this thing?

You will need to have Node.js installed (I had 6.10 installed - not sure what other versions this will work on).

  • Clone this repo.
  • Inside index.js replace the following line with the path to your Google Photos folder (This should probably be an environment variable or a property or whatever...)
const googlePhotosDir = '/Users/kalmanhazins/Google Drive/Google Photos'
  • Run npm install
  • Run node index.js