How PhotoMove Detects Duplicate Photos When you are backing up years of photos from different cameras, phones, and hard drives, duplicate files are unavoidable. But how does PhotoMove actually know if a file is a true duplicate? You have two choices for how strict you want the program to be: Option 1: File Names Match… Read more »
Posts Categorized: PhotoMove
How to Handle Duplicate Photos and File Collisions
Handling Duplicate Files (File Collisions) When organizing thousands of photos, it is extremely common to run into a “File Collision”. This happens when PhotoMove tries to place a photo into your organized destination folder, but a file with that exact same name already exists there. This dropdown menu tells PhotoMove exactly how you want it… Read more »
How To Check the EXIF Data In Your Photos
What does EXIF Mean and What is EXIF Data? EXIF is an abbreviation for Exchangeable Image File Format. When you take a modern digital photo the image is saved in a file. Along with the actual image itself, the camera saves a number of other parameters that record the photo’s technical and descriptive information. These… Read more »
Using PhotoMove on a Mac
Use Parallels or another Windows VM to run PhotoMove on your Mac. A number of Mac users have reported no problems using PhotoMove on their Mac when they use Parallels. This is an alternative that enables you make use of the features of PhotoMove. Parallels creates a virtual Windows machine that allows you to run… Read more »
No Exif Date Created Help
Understanding the “No EXIF Date” Options When PhotoMove scans your folders, it looks for the internal EXIF Creation Date—the exact timestamp your digital camera or smartphone embedded inside the file the exact fraction of a second you snapped the picture. However, you will inevitably have files that are missing this internal camera data. These usually… Read more »
Using PhotoMove on a NAS
There have only been a few people (three actually) who have contacted me about their NAS systems. PhotoMove was not seeing their NAS drives. In two cases it turned out that the users were able to correct the problem by turning on Windows Network Discovery. In the third case, the problem was resolved when the… Read more »
Advanced Command Line Information
Special Note If You Setting The Root of a Drive as the Source or Destination Folder If you want to indicate the root of the drive in the /s: (source) or /d: (destination) parameter you need to add an additional backslash character as an escape code. For example, if you want your source to be… Read more »
How to Choose Your Output Folder Structure in PhotoMove
Try It Out: How will your photos be sorted? We’re sorting three sample photos: A Canon photo from July 4th, an iPhone photo from July 4th, and an iPhone photo from Christmas. Select a structure to see the results. These are the same options that are available in the PhotoMove program. Choose Output Folder Structure:… Read more »
Pro Version Options for No Exif Date Files
What To Do If Your Photos or Videos Do Not Have an Exif Date Created? When you are using PhotoMove there can be times when you’ll find that the folder or folders you are processing contain a mixture of files with valid exif creation dates and some without. In order to make it easy handle… Read more »
Using PhotoMove from the Command Line
Command line codes and instructions.