KO | EN

GitLite

Minimalist Open Source Repository Search Engine

gitlite — search

#dsh #dsh-plugin #codex #typescript #developer-tools #ai-agents #deepseek-harness #claude-code #ai-agent #cli #react #mcp

synology-photos-auto-sort

★ 55 Open GitHub ↗

Script to use exiftool on a Synology NAS or any bash environment to auto sort images from a folder

// repository documentation

Was this content helpful?

★ 0 (0 ratings)

# 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.

synology-photos-auto-sort

Explore Similar Repositories

Was this content helpful?

Recent Feedback

Download README