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Afew years ago, I ran all my family photos through a script that renamed them based on the year, month, and date. I may have retained the old name in the metada

Afew years ago, I ran all my family photos through a script that renamed them based on the year, month, and date. I may have retained the old name in the metadata. I'm looking for the script I used. I also have some tools that compare hashes and find duplicates. You can google that stuff, or if you want to hire me to help, PM me.

gravitas 6y ago
Years ago when Flickr made a big change and I needed to extract my original uploaded content (almost same exact scenario as this thread), I found this script as a starting point (it uses jhead): http://neverfear.org/blog/view/148/Rename_all_jpeg_files_by_their_exposure_date_Bash http://neverfear.org/blog/view/148/Rename_all_jpeg_files_by_...
- ghaff 6y ago
  For me, Flickr has always just been about copies of local files. At some point though, I do need to look at what all I've uploaded there. At one point, my Lightroom database got corrupted. I was able to recover it but I lost the local service mirror of what I had uploaded. (And a fair bit of stuff pre-dated using Flickr in any case.)
ghaff 6y ago
I sorted stuff by ages and, very roughly, by content ages ago. So it's not horrible. By biggest issue is that when I first started using Lightroom I didn't really have a good orderly ingestion workflow so there's a duplication of raw scans, PSDs, JPGs, different versions of edits, etc. It's hard to automate and what to save and what to toss from the catalog is somewhat a matter of judgement. >I ran all my family photos through a script that renamed them based on the year, month, and date. I actually don't care about the filename, although maybe once things are cleaned up I'll do an export of everything. It's all in a Lightroom catalog now. It's "just" a matter of adding more primarily location-based metadata and making sure everything I especially care about is in appropriate Collections.

gravitas 6y ago

Years ago when Flickr made a big change and I needed to extract my original uploaded content (almost same exact scenario as this thread), I found this script as a starting point (it uses jhead): http://neverfear.org/blog/view/148/Rename_all_jpeg_files_by_their_exposure_date_Bash http://neverfear.org/blog/view/148/Rename_all_jpeg_files_by_...

ghaff 6y ago
For me, Flickr has always just been about copies of local files. At some point though, I do need to look at what all I've uploaded there. At one point, my Lightroom database got corrupted. I was able to recover it but I lost the local service mirror of what I had uploaded. (And a fair bit of stuff pre-dated using Flickr in any case.)

ghaff 6y ago

I sorted stuff by ages and, very roughly, by content ages ago. So it's not horrible. By biggest issue is that when I first started using Lightroom I didn't really have a good orderly ingestion workflow so there's a duplication of raw scans, PSDs, JPGs, different versions of edits, etc. It's hard to automate and what to save and what to toss from the catalog is somewhat a matter of judgement. >I ran all my family photos through a script that renamed them based on the year, month, and date. I actually don't care about the filename, although maybe once things are cleaned up I'll do an export of everything. It's all in a Lightroom catalog now. It's "just" a matter of adding more primarily location-based metadata and making sure everything I especially care about is in appropriate Collections.