Thousands of images, date based directory structure - how?

Thousands of images, date based directory structure - how?

I have thousands of images dumped into one big directory. Most images have an file name according to YYYY-MM-DD-misc-keyword.ext. I would now like to create a directory structure where each directory has a name according to YYYY-MM, basically one dir. per month of the year. Obviously, i would like to move imags into their corresponding directory by using the info in the file name.

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Guest [Entry]

You might also try belvedere from a Lifehacker writer. You can create rules and an automatic "move file" action. Might not be powerful enough for your needs.

Guest [Entry]

"Without a fully automated solution, I think Everything search might be of use. It's a very fast and effective file name and folder searcher. If you search for ""2004-11"", you'll see all the files with that as part of the name, and can simply cut and paste into a particular folder.

Depends on how many different months you have of course, maybe it's enough to be worthwhile writing/learning how to write a script, but if it's not too many then try Everything."