Comments on Profile Post by TomvanWijnen

Why is that a Whoops moment?

Because it means that I've made 16,000 pictures with my phone since getting it 3.7 years ago. That is quite a lot, I'd say. :P And none of those are selfies, mind you (I don't take selfies, ew). :P

It is indeed quite the amount! I assume they aren't neatly backed up and organised? :P

Excluding the newest 2,000, they definitely are backed up (multiple times even!)! :D They are sorted on taken date, and in a few folders because I back them up every so often. I haven't yet separated them between different holidays, but might do that too in the near future. :)

Cool. :) I've been organising my mother's pictures from 2015-2018 during this time off uni, following the system once devised by my father. I created an account at Stack Exchange to be able to ask how I could go about it, as I couldn't figure out the commands myself. ;) (I ended up going for Powershell as it seemed too complicated in a regular cmd, and I didn't want to have to install a 3rd party program for it)

Ah, cool! I'm curious what this system is and what you used Powershell for.

$Path = 'D:\' # the folder where the jpg files are
$Count = 10 # the starting number. gets increased for each file
Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Filter '*.JPG' -File | Sort-Object LastWriteTime | ForEach-Object {
$_ | Rename-Item -NewName ('{0:00000} {1}.JPG' -f $Count++, ($_.LastWriteTime.toString("dd-MM-yyyy HH.mm")))
}

In any folder, there are at most 99 pictures: xxxx01 to xxxx99. If the next day doesn't fit in its entirety anymore it also goes to the next folder. Made-up example: Photo 24587 is the last picture from April 27th 2016, and 20 pictures were made on April 28th 2016. Then April 28 will be in another folder, starting at 24601.

Oops, I typed twice one 'x' too many in the first line. :P

Ah, very interesting! I think I'll just separate them per holiday, as the bulk of my pictures are from holidays. :P

Yeah, that's certainly a good idea. :)