A command-line tool to organize a media library by moving media files from a source directory to a target directory, structured by the creation date of each file. This program is designed to help maintain an organized library by sorting files into date-based folders and optionally renaming them.

• Organizes files based on customizable date-based subfolder and filename patterns.
• Can be rerun with the same parameters, automatically resolving any duplicates.
• Automatically recognizes CoW volumes and uses reflink instead of copy if supported.
• Puts files into the unrecognized directory if it cannot extract the creation date.
• Supports dry-run mode.

1. Install Rust and Cargo if they aren’t already installed.
2. Install MediaInfo.
3. Clone this repository.
4. Build the project with.
5. The executable will be located in target/release.

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Vaiz/media-sync.git
cargo build --release

media-sync <source> <target> [options]

• <source>: Path to the source directory where media files will be recursively searched.
• <target>: Path to the target directory where organized media files will be stored.

• --target-dir-pattern <pattern>: Custom pattern for the target directory structure, based on media creation time. The pattern must be a valid path (e.g., %Y/%m/%d).

  • Default: %Y/%m/%d

• --target-file-pattern <pattern>: Custom pattern for renaming files based on media creation time. The pattern should form a valid filename (e.g., %Y-%m-%dT%H%M%S).

  • Default: %Y-%m-%dT%H%M%S

• --dry-run: Simulates the organization process, printing all file operations to the console without moving or copying files.

  Note: This mode stores metadata of all copied files in memory for duplicate detection.

• --unrecognized <folder_name>: Name of the subfolder in the target directory where unrecognized media files are stored. Defaults to unrecognized.

This program uses chrono crate for datetime formatting. More information can be found here.

media-sync /path/to/source /path/to/target

media-sync /path/to/source /path/to/target --target-dir-pattern "%Y/%m" --target-file-pattern "%H%M"

This command organizes files by year and month in subdirectories and names them with a time stamp.

media-sync.exe D:\tmp\test_data D:\tmp\sorted --dry-run --target-dir-pattern %Y`

Dry run results:
D:\tmp\sorted\
D:\tmp\sorted\2014\
D:\tmp\sorted\2014\2014-03-09T015545.MP4                       46536726
╰── D:\tmp\test_data\1.MP4
D:\tmp\sorted\2016\
D:\tmp\sorted\2016\2016-10-09T130712.MTS                       31598592
╰── D:\tmp\test_data\00000.MTS
D:\tmp\sorted\2018\
D:\tmp\sorted\2018\2018-08-30T113154.JPG                         902539
╰── D:\tmp\test_data\12.JPG
D:\tmp\sorted\2018\2018-08-30T113218.JPG                        1733635
╰── D:\tmp\test_data\13.JPG
D:\tmp\sorted\2018\2018-08-30T113229.JPG                        2082226
╰── D:\tmp\test_data\11.JPG
D:\tmp\sorted\2018\2018-09-07T160435.JPG                        1259760
╰── D:\tmp\test_data\14.JPG
D:\tmp\sorted\2019\
D:\tmp\sorted\2019\2019-03-13T111520.JPG                        2158680
╰── D:\tmp\test_data\2.JPG
D:\tmp\sorted\2019\2019-03-23T174739.jpg                        2679770
╰── D:\tmp\test_data\3.jpg
D:\tmp\sorted\2019\2019-04-19T135416.JPG                        2933967
╰── D:\tmp\test_data\4.JPG
D:\tmp\sorted\2019\2019-04-19T151220.JPG                        3196211
╰── D:\tmp\test_data\5.JPG
D:\tmp\sorted\2019\2019-04-19T151946.JPG                        3924456
╰── D:\tmp\test_data\6.JPG
D:\tmp\sorted\2019\2019-04-19T153543.JPG                        3432887
╰── D:\tmp\test_data\7.JPG
D:\tmp\sorted\2019\2019-12-13T221834.jpg                        1224990
╰── D:\tmp\test_data\10.jpg
D:\tmp\sorted\2020\
D:\tmp\sorted\2020\2020-03-22T183007.JPG                         376715
╰── D:\tmp\test_data\8.JPG
D:\tmp\sorted\2020\2020-04-12T143314.JPG                        4175983
╰── D:\tmp\test_data\9.JPG
D:\tmp\sorted\2020\2020-04-12T150742.JPG                         996274
╰── D:\tmp\test_data\1.JPG
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