Step By Step
- Auto sort image files by date taken.
- Auto sort video files by date taken.
When you run PhotoMove this is the screen you will see.
Managing your image and video files is easy:
- 1. Choose the folder that contains the files you want to check.
- 2. Choose the location where the sorted folders holding your files will be made.
- 3. If you want to see a list of the files before you Copy or Move them, check the Preview box.
- 3a. Optionally choose the settings you want to use for Folder Structure, Duplicate File Handling, Files Types and Camera Models. (Pro version only.)
- 4. Let PhotoMove find all the files that contain exif information with the actual date your photos were taken or your videos were recorded.
- 5. Click either the COPY or MOVE button to process your files.
- You will find your photo or video files in dated subfolders under the destination folder you set sorted by the date taken.
How To Use PhotoMove to Process Your Image and Video Files
So cool. Thank you for creating such a helpful application. All photos are organized and maintained with a solid, easy to understand interface. Job well done, my friend.
Hi Greg,
Thanks for your feedback.
Regarding separators, do a Find first to activate the tab section in the bottom right quadrant of the PhotoMove screen. Go to the tab labeled ‘Other Options’ and you can change or remove the separators.
Your suggestion regarding checking the folder contents to get the date is a unique and interesting one. I will do some research on this especially looking at how much time it would take for PhotoMove to do this additional checking. Making it an option so that a user can trade speed for this capability might be the way to go.
Two questions or comments:
1) Instead of underscore between the year month and day, can a hyphen be used? it would result in consistent order for those who already created their photo collection folders using a hyphen. The MIXTURE of hyphen and underscore results in folder names out of chronological order.
2) Can an enhancement be made to add the date together with and existing folder name? An example is lets say a folder is already named as Christmas. Just look at the very first photo in the folder for the creation date then output to a folder called 2026-12-25 Christmas.
I have been using this program for many years. I am a mother who takes photos daily of my kids and this program helps me keep all of my photos organized. I love it!!!
Good application. Simple and intuitive. Performs exactly as advertised.
Awesome program! Been using computers 30 years and have spent many, many hours trying to organize my photos. Good software takes a complicated issue and simplies it making it look easy.
This is such a program. Good job…
I bought the Pro version since it saved in folders by YR-MO. It sorted 16600 pictures (accumulated since 2000) in about an hour. I had them in many subfolders so I assume that is why it took an hour. This has been the best $9 I spent on software!
Astonished how good PhotoMove 2.5 is. I now have workflows to manage all my media. I am very impressed at how good this program is.
OMG, this is the best photo-organising Programme out there. The time this has saved me is unbelievable.
Thank you very much.
Love it. I’m a software engineer and I COULD NOT find anything else that organizes photos/videos this way, which is exactly the way I want it. I got started writing a Java program to do what PhotoMove does and gave up when I saw how many edge cases there are. You’ve covered them nicely. Thanks for this!
Nice to haves: progress bar showing how many kB to go, how many already copied, and and estimate of the time remaining based on that and time spent; dupes all go to the same folder instead of separate folders by date.
I bought the pro version.
Marvelous program that does in minutes what I manually would have done in weeks.
The best program for the less money.
Thanks
“Does what it says on the tin” and does it well and simply.
Well woth the fee for PRO version
Great software, worked like a charm
Well, this just does the job! I sorted 20k+ photo’s with a lot of duplicates. If you like spending
weeks/months on sorting, then this software is not for you. If you want the job done in less then 20mins,
and perfect sorted on year/duplicates, then it is money spend very well :)
Thanks
AMAZING PROGRAM, LOOKING FOR THIS PROGRAM FOR 10 YEARS. NOW I CAN ORGANIZE MY THOUSANDS OF PHOTOS.
THANK YOU
PATRICK
The creators of this program are The Man, The Myth & The Legends.
After using serveral free program’s with alot of disappointments and hours of times wasted, i am finally able to sort years of photo’s and video’s.
Thank you! Keep up the good work!