notes-on-sorting-photos.md (2167B)
1 --- 2 title: "Notes on sorting Photos" 3 date: 2019-12-23T11:50:00 4 lastmod: 2023-02-19T21:05:00 5 tags: ["Android", "Formats", "Guides", "Linux", "Media", "Minimalism", "Notes", "Snippets", "Software"] 6 --- 7 8 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. 9 10 This entire process is structured around using ArchLinux. Below is how I complete this: 11 12 # Mount your phone's storage 13 I use `simple-mtpfs` to access my phone, this is installed from the AUR using `yay`: 14 ``` 15 yay -S simple-mtpfs 16 simple-mtpfs -l 17 mkdir phone 18 simple-mtpfs --device 1 phone 19 ls phone 20 ``` 21 This should now print out the file and folder structure of your phone. 22 23 # Install Phockup 24 Now we're going to install `phockup` to sort the files into a coherent folder structure: 25 ``` 26 sudo pacman -S perl-image-exiftool python3 27 curl -L https://github.com/ivandokov/phockup/archive/latest.tar.gz -o phockup.tar.gz 28 tar -zxf phockup.tar.gz 29 sudo mv phockup-* /opt/phockup 30 sudo ln -s /opt/phockup/phockup.py /usr/local/bin/phockup 31 ``` 32 33 # Mount your storage 34 Now we're going to mount our cloud storage destination, using the ever useful `rclone`: 35 ``` 36 mkdir pictures 37 rclone mount drive-pictures: pictures --daemon 38 ``` 39 40 # Sort your images 41 Now we can invoke `phockup` to sort and move the source files to the destination folder: 42 ``` 43 phockup phone/DCIM/Camera/ pictures/personal/photos/ -m 44 mv phone/Pictures/Screenshots/* pictures/personal/screenshots/ -v 45 rm -rf phone/DCIM/.thumbnails 46 find phone -maxdepth 2 -type d -not -path "*/\.*" -empty -delete -print 47 ``` 48 I also move my screenshots, as I like these being backed up but I don't care about how they're sorted. 49 I also delete unused thumbnails and empty folders, just to keep things tidy. 50 51 # Dedupe your images 52 Lastly, I deduplicate the images using `jdupes`. This will prompt you for every match it finds which copy you want: 53 ``` 54 yay -S jdupes 55 jdupes pictures/personal -rd 56 ``` 57 58 And you're done. 59 60 * **Edit 2020-10-26:** Improved empty directory deletion section 61 * **Edit 2023-02-19:** Print list of directories removed