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file-tree-tidier

Copy files from a source tree to a destination tree having a single level of directories named by the modification date of the files.

I wanted to pull all of the photos out of my messy iPhoto directory structure, with its odd menagerie of variously-named subdirectories, and into a simple directory containing a single level of subdirectories, named after the modification date of the files. Think of this as a poor man's rsync. It checks for files that have already been copied, and also checks for clashes (using MD5 checksums, which will make it rather slow).

Usage

Feel free to create an uberjar, or else just run with Leiningen:

    lein run --from-dir ~/Pictures/iPhoto\ Library/Masters/ \
             --to-dir ~/SOMEWHERE-MORE-SENSIBLE

Both root directories must exist.

The additional binary argument --delete-after will delete the source files (but not any of their containing directories) on copy (or if already copied).

To Do

It's obviously possible to get clashes for identically-named files with the same modification date. At the moment this package will print the clashes and ignore them; we need to decide on a simple renaming scheme to apply instead.

License

Copyright © 2014 Nick Rothwell.

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.