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How to organize images by date

A classic example of using DropIt is to organize your photos into subfolders named with the file date.

Do it is simple: you can use Abbreviations to customize the destination field of your associations. The selected abbreviations will be added in your destination field and during process they will be replaced with the correct file date.

Now are reported some examples of associations. Note that JPG photos generally have “Date Taken” info (“when you took the photo”), so you can use it to sort them; instead for the other images you could use “Date Created” or “Date Modified”.



Example 1

Name: My Photos by Date
Rules: *.jpg
Action: Move
Destination: C:\Photos\%DateTaken%



Example 2

Name: My Photos by Year and Month
Rules: *.jpg
Action: Move
Destination: C:\Photos\%YearTaken% - %MonthTaken%



Example 3

Name: My Photos by Date subfolders
Rules: *.jpg
Action: Move
Destination: C:\Photos\%YearTaken%\%MonthTaken%\%DayTaken%



Example 4

Name: All My Images by Date
Rules: *.jpg;*.png;*.gif
Action: Move
Destination: C:\Images\%DateModified%



Example 5

You can also Move and Rename files with a single process. For more info you can read:
How to rename and move your files

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