Distribute

Easily distribute images from your camera or phone into a desired folder structure!

Why?

I archive all my images on my hard drive by their date in the following structure:

My images
├ 2017
│ ├ 01
│ ├ 02
│ ├ 03
│ ├ 04
│ └ ...
├ 2018
│ ├ 01
│ ├ 02
│ ├ 03
│ ├ 04
│ └ ...
└ ...

Because sorting my images by hand into this structure is tedious I build myself this little tool to do it for me.

Features

• Specify a folder from wich files get loaded and a folder where the files should be sorted into using distribute [From] [To].
• Use -s|--structure define a structure using a custom date and time format.
• Delete copied files with -d|--delete.
• Media devices (like connected phones on Windows) are supported.

Copy from or to media devices

When connecting a phone to a windows computer it can only be accessed by MTP or FTP.

To specify a media device to copy from or to use the following notation:

Device Name:\Drive Name\Path

where Device Name is the name listed in your explorer and Drive Name is the drive listed in the device.

Installation

Goto the release page and fetch your fitting binary.

Usage

USAGE:
    distribute [From] [To] [OPTIONS]

ARGUMENTS:
    [From]    The source directory the files should be distributed from
    [To]      The directory the files should be distributed to

OPTIONS:
                       DEFAULT
    -h, --help                         Shows help an                                                                       
    -s, --structure    yyyy'/'MM'/'    The folder structure the files should be sorted into.
                                       See
                                       https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/custom-date-and-time-for
                                       mat-strings for more information
    -d, --depth        5               The maximum search depth for files in the source directory
    -r, --remove                       Whether the distributed and copied files should be deleted in the source directory