"(move) ERROR! 'created' is undefined" when sorting photos

[tehabe]

I'm trying to sort my photos and I was able to create this rule with the "documenation" but I'm getting the error message that "created" is not defined. How do I define it?

rules:
  - locations: "~/Pictures/PhotoFiles/"
    subfolders: true
    actions:
     - move:
        dest: "~/Pictures/Sortiert/{created.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')}/"
        on_conflict: skip

I actually want to have a folder structure like (year)/(month)/day/. But I'm currently just want to make it at least work.

[tfeldmann]

You have to add the created filter for the placeholder to work:

rules:
  - locations: "~/Pictures/PhotoFiles/"
    subfolders: true
    filters:
     - created
    actions:
     - move:
        dest: "~/Pictures/Sortiert/{created.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')}/"
        on_conflict: skip

I actually want to have a folder structure like (year)/(month)/day/. But I'm currently just want to make it at least work.

You can achieve this by formatting the date with slashes: {created.strftime('%Y/%m/%d')}

[tehabe]

Thank you, it works, I tried something like it but I must have made a mistake or something. Now I just have to figure out how to use the "correct" creation date from the EXIF metadata. Maybe the homebrew version of organize is missing something for that.

[tfeldmann]

You can use something like this:

rules:
  - locations: ~/Pictures
    filters:
      - exif
    actions:
      - echo: "{exif}"

To see which exif information is available in your pictures. The exif datetimes are currently not yet automatically converted to python datetimes, so formatting this might be a bit tricky, but can be done with string operations. Reply here if you need help with that 👍

[tehabe]

I would need help with that, I also would like that be included as an example in the documentation for organize. I found the part I want to use in the EXIF data "'datetimeoriginal': '2013:03:07 15:15:24',"