The above is totally untested (yet), but I wonder if I'm on to something. Which makes me wonder if I can just alter my script to include this line at the beginning, such as:Įxiftool -overwrite_original_in_place -if 'not $CreateDate' '-CreateDate '-Directory These items end up in a specific "dumping ground" directory: /mnt/vault/unsorted_pictures/staging/user-name-hereĢ) A bash script is called (below) which copies (-o) all of the pictures to the destination directory, sorted by year/month: /mnt/vault/pictures/year/month The current process looks something like this.ġ) Android phones auto sync all items from DCIM every hour using FolderSync app over SFTP to a home file server running Ubuntu Server 16.04. I'm running into a situation as I try to refine my photo sorting process as much as possible.#Exiftool createdate all 00 android