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+title: "Notes on Sorting Photos"
+date: 2019-12-23T11:50:00
+tags: ["android", "formats", "guides", "linux", "media", "minimalism", "snippets", "software"]
+---
+
+My smart phone is an android device, it connects to my computer via MTP over USB and I store my photographs on cloud storage. Subsequently I want these pictures to be sorted, and I don't want any duplicates.
+
+This entire process is structured around using ArchLinux. Below is how I complete this:
+
+# Mount your phone's storage
+I use `simple-mtpfs` to access my phone, this is installed from the AUR using `yay`:
+```
+yay -S simple-mtpfs
+simple-mtpfs -l
+mkdir phone
+simple-mtpfs --device 1 phone
+ls phone
+```
+This should now print out the file and folder structure of your phone.
+
+# Install Phockup
+Now we're going to install `phockup` to sort the files into a coherent folder structure:
+```
+sudo pacman -S perl-image-exiftool python3
+curl -L https://github.com/ivandokov/phockup/archive/latest.tar.gz -o phockup.tar.gz
+tar -zxf phockup.tar.gz
+sudo mv phockup-* /opt/phockup
+sudo ln -s /opt/phockup/phockup.py /usr/local/bin/phockup
+```
+
+# Mount your storage
+Now we're going to mount our cloud storage destination, using the ever useful `rclone`:
+```
+mkdir pictures
+rclone mount drive-pictures: pictures --daemon
+```
+
+# Sort your images
+Now we can invoke `phockup` to sort and move the source files to the destination folder:
+```
+phockup phone/DCIM/Camera/ pictures/personal/photos/ -m
+mv phone/Pictures/Screenshots/* pictures/personal/screenshots/ -v
+rm -rf phone/DCIM/.thumbnails
+find phone -maxdepth 2 -empty -delete
+```
+I also move my screenshots, as I like these being backed up but I don't care about how they're sorted.
+I also delete unused thumbnails and empty folders, just to keep things tidy.
+
+# Dedupe your images
+Lastly, I deduplicate the images using `jdupes`. This will prompt you for every match it finds which copy you want:
+```
+yay -S jdupes
+jdupes pictures/personal -rd
+```
+
+And you're done.