Posts Categorized: PhotoMove

A GoPro saves a thumbnail (.thm) and a low-resolution preview (.lrv) next to each .mp4. The thumbnail uses the video’s name. On a Hero 7 or later, the preview uses the same number and a different second letter: the video is GX and the preview is GL. Some other cameras save a companion with the… Read more

PhotoMove Pro can build destination folders from a pattern you write yourself. That pattern is called a Custom folder template. You pick tokens for year, month, day, and camera. PhotoMove turns each file’s date (and camera, if you use it) into real Windows folders under the Destination folder from Step 2. What Custom folder structure… Read more

PhotoMove sorts photos and videos into date folders on your Windows PC. Before a big Copy or Move, it helps to see where files would go — and to reverse the last batch if something looks wrong. Two features in Step 4 handle that: Preview and Undo Last Copy/Move. Both are included in the Free… Read more

Google Photos is cloud storage. PhotoMove is a Windows program that sorts photos and videos into date folders on your PC. This page explains how to bring a Google download into PhotoMove and get the right dates. PhotoMove works on your computer only. It does not upload your photos to the cloud. What Google Takeout… Read more

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

First: What counts as a duplicate? Duplicate handling is a PhotoMove Pro feature. Before you choose what happens to duplicates, tell PhotoMove how strict to be. In the main window, open the duplicate options and look for: Files Are Duplicates If: File Names Match PhotoMove treats two files as duplicates when the file names are… Read more

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

PhotoMove does not run on macOS. It is a Windows program. On a Mac, run Windows in a virtual machine, then install PhotoMove inside that Windows machine. A Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) needs Windows 11 for ARM. An Intel Mac can use Windows 11 in the virtual machine. Parallels Desktop Parallels Desktop… Read more

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