This is possible only by looking at the images metadata. To achieve this we need to understand how to write an application that will look at all the images into a folder and organise by date into freshly created folder.

It is not wrong, but if you don’t move soon into a cloud archive or somewhere else after few months (weeks in this case) could be really hard to get organised.

The real issue (or the use case) is that someone in my family (I’m not saying my wife here) has the tendency to shot an incredible average number of pictures per day. The problem I wanted to solve within this series of articles is to have some sort of automated python script that looks into a folder and subfolders full of images and organise them by date moving into a well organised folder structure (i.e. With this article we are going to explain how to extract metadata from images so that we can organise a folder/subfolder full of images. 0x9003, 0x9004, CreateDate, DateTimeOriginal, ExifIFD, image tags, metadata, Python

Using exiftool to extract metadata