Search all pictures and auto organize by date taken.

[Tom23226718zq9i]

New to Adobe Bridge and lookig for an option of searching my photo library (jpg and raw files) on the NAS and auto orginize them by date taken in to their respective folders. If not possible what aother software can do this.

[Lumigraphics]

I'm not sure what you want. Are the photos all in one big folder and you want to move them to new folders, or... ?

[Tom23226718zq9i]

They are in the folders by year however some of them are in the wrong folders so I'm looking for the option to search/scan them all and auto place in folders based on the create date. Same option as inserting CD camera card "Get photos from the camera" but instead I want to use my NAS share.

[Lumigraphics]

Searching is easy, but moving things around would either require a script or just label/keyword and then manually moving.

Do a custom search with Date Created greater than 12/31/2021 to fine anything from 2022. Move all of those to the correct folder and label them, say, Done. Then search for > 12/31/2020 and filter by label. Again move as needed. Rinse and repeat for each year.

As for a script, you can read Date Created and do something based on that data. This is a script snippet that you can start with:

    var Thumbs = app.document.selections;
    for(var a in Thumbs){
        try{
            if(Thumbs[a].hasMetadata){
                var date = Thumbs[a].creationDate.toString());
                alert(date);
                }
            }
        catch(e){
            alert(e + ' ' + e.line);
            }
        }

[Tom23226718zq9i]

Thank you but this is manual work. I need the same option as import pictures from camera or memory card where all pictures are automaticaly placed in their respective folders. In other words how can you sort ex. 1000 pictures from 2000-2020 automaticaly.

[Lumigraphics]

You would need to write a script to accomplish this. There is no software that I am aware of that can automatically sort your photos and move them.

[Tom23226718zq9i]

Weird, AB can do it from the memory card but not from the HDD. I'll try PhotoMove. Thanks anyway.

[Tom23226718zq9i]

For 8.95$ photomove does exactly what I was looking for. Thank you all.