Organizing photos by date with Go
Installation
As always, you need to compile the Go program, the source code of which can be found in the download section for this article [3], using the rule of three from Listing 4. The importer
binary created by doing this will then include all dependencies fetched from GitHub and can be easily copied to and run on systems with a similar architecture.
Listing 4
Compiling the Go Program
01 $ go mod init importer 02 $ go mod tidy 03 $ go build importer.go cacher.go util.go
Pro Tip: Formatting
By the way, professionals advise never to delete images selectively on SD cards for cameras, but instead you should format the whole card right away once it becomes too full.
The reason for this radical approach: The reformatting process also immediately identifies the bad blocks on the card and replaces them with good ones. When photos are simply deleted after they have been archived, this important step is omitted. Sooner or later, you will find yourself with a defective card, tearing your hair out because your freshly taken wedding photos can no longer be read.
When formatting the SD card, the .uuid
file also disappears from it; the importer creates a new one during the next archiving run. The names of the photos on the card are therefore processed in a separate namespace, and reused file names are not a problem.
Why bother with the UUID and subdirectories at all, when you could easily determine from the date the photo was taken whether or not it already exists in the archive? This is all about performance: The operating system can fish the name and path of a file out of the inode table in next to no time, while it would have to read the file contents in order to check the Exif headers with the date – and doing so is a couple of orders of magnitude slower.
Infos
- DCF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_system
- "Programming Snapshot: Rewriting a Photo Tagger in Go" by Mike Schilli, issue 264, November 2022, pp. 48-51
- Source code for this article: https://linuxnewmedia.thegood.cloud/s/5Rzx9tQW2FJ6N3Z @IE
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