I have been using OneDrive photo backups for a while now. And It is a great feature that easily handles all the synchronization across all your devices. There is only one thing that is missing. It doesn’t organize your photos. That’s why I wrote a quick script to do that for me.
Here is the script for anyone interested:
SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
@ECHO OFF
REM Photos directory
SET PhotosDir=%USERPROFILE%\OneDrive\Pictures
REM Uncomment following line if folder is on drive D
REM D:
REM Change to Photos directory
CD %PhotosDir%
FOR /l %%i in (2015,1,2017) DO (
FOR /l %%j in (1,1,12) DO (
SET /A mlabel=%%j
IF !mlabel! LSS 10 ( SET mlabel=0!mlabel!)
MKDIR %%i-!mlabel!
MOVE %%i!mlabel!*.jp*g %%i-!mlabel!
MOVE IMG-%%i!mlabel!*.jp*g %%i-!mlabel!
MOVE IMG_%%i!mlabel!*.jp*g %%i-!mlabel!
MOVE IMG_%%i-!mlabel!*.jp*g %%i-!mlabel!
)
)
REM Move all videos to Videos folder
MKDIR Videos
MOVE *.mp4 Videos
REM Move screenshots to Screenshots folder
MKDIR Screenshots
MOVE Screenshot*.png Screenshots
MOVE Screenshot*.jp*g Screenshots
REM Move office lens documents to OfficeLens folder
MKDIR OfficeLens
MOVE Office*.jp*g OfficeLens
REM Move images saved from facebook to Facebook folder
MKDIR Facebook
MOVE FB_IMG* Facebook
REM Move all images that has wallpaper in file name to Wallpapers folder
MKDIR Wallpapers
MOVE *wallpaper*.jpg Wallpapers
REM Clear empty folders
FOR /f "usebackq delims=" %%d in (`"DIR /ad/b/s | sort /R"`) DO RD "%%d"
CLS
ECHO.
ECHO. Job's done.
ECHO.
REM PAUSE
Copy and save this script as organizephotos.bat
on your home directory. Then you can either run it manually, or better set a time schedule to run it periodically.
I hope this works for you too! Best.