synology-photos-auto-sort

A script to rename, move and sort images and videos files from a source folder to a target folder.

This script is first writted to be used on a Synology NAS, but it will work on any System where bash and exiftool can be used. That means you can use this script in a Linux computer, MacOS, any other NAS working on Linux based system and even Windows with a Linux subsystem installed via WSL. I tested it on synology DSM6 and Debian 9, 10 and 11 with success.

How it works?

To work this script need exiftool installed on your NAS. The best way to install this tool is to add a new package sources from http://www.cphub.net then you will have exiftool available as a package.

• Create in your NAS a folder which would be the source folder of the script
• Add images and videos inside this folder
• run the script like ./synology-photos-auto-sort.sh /path_of_source_folder /path_of_destination_folder Full exemple : ./synology-photos-auto-sort.sh /volume1/Download/images_temp/ /volume1/photo
• The script will move and rename photos and videos in taget folder like this structure : /Target_folder/YEAR/Year.Month/yearmonthday_hourminutesseconds.jpg
• If a file with the same name already exist, there is a base64 file comparison to ensure that the content is different, if it is different the image will by copied and get a new name (same as target + unique ID), if the content is the same the image is copied in a duplicate folder
• If exif data is not available, th script will create an error folder inside the source folder and move images and videos inside this error folder
• A logs folder is available with all errors /duplicated listed by sync date
• The filename and path must not have any whitespace !!!

How to automatise this script?

Access to your NAS with ssh, then clone this repository.

• ssh user@nas_ip
• git clone https://github.com/Gulivertx/synology-photos-auto-sort.git

Add a new cron job to run periodically the script

• sudo vi /etc/crontab
• * * * * * root /var/services/homes/gulivert/synology-photos-auto-sort/synology-photos-auto-sort.sh /volume1/Download/images_temp /volume1/photo
• sudo synoservice -restart crond

Replace gulivert by your username.

This rule will launch the script every minute using as source folder /volume1/Download/images_temp and /volume1/photo as target.