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olliedale Author

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Automate files into folders by month

I'm running 17 time lapse cameras. Each camera takes a photo every 15 minutes, and uploads it into a Dropbox folder so my client can see / access.

I'd like to run an automator script that puts files into different folders depending on the filename:

20220304071500.JPG

(2022 03 04 07:15:00)

So I'd like the script to be able to read the 5th and 6th characters which will be the month on every file I have, and put them into a folder of the same number

If it could create that folder, even better... there are 599,000 images for me to sort and the project is ongoing :-|

Any help would be appreciated

iMac Pro

Posted on Jul 6, 2022 4:15 AM

Automate files into folders by month

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