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2026-08-10-15-23

I’ve been playing around with ExifTool and created a few shortcut actions to help me sort through my photos. If anyone’s interested, I’m going to write a short article about it.

A macOS window showing four pink shortcut tiles for organizing photos: Remove Duplicates, Sort Photos by Date, Sync JPEG to XMP, and Create Missing Sidecar.

Sort photos by date

Before

$ tree Import
Import
├── DSCF7924.JPG
├── DSCF7924.RAF
├── DSCF7924.xmp
├── DSCF7925.JPG
├── DSCF7925.RAF
├── DSCF7925.xmp
├── DSCF7940.JPG
├── DSCF7940.RAF
└── DSCF7940.xmp

0 directories, 9 files

After

$ tree Import
Import
├── 2026-07-19
│   ├── DSCF7924.JPG
│   ├── DSCF7924.RAF
│   ├── DSCF7924.xmp
│   ├── DSCF7925.JPG
│   ├── DSCF7925.RAF
│   └── DSCF7925.xmp
└── 2026-07-21
    ├── DSCF7940.JPG
    ├── DSCF7940.RAF
    └── DSCF7940.xmp

2 directories, 9 files

Rename photos

Before

$ tree 2026-07-19
2026-07-19
├── DSCF7924.JPG
├── DSCF7924.RAF
├── DSCF7924.xmp
├── DSCF7925.JPG
├── DSCF7925.RAF
└── DSCF7925.xmp

0 directories, 6 files

After

$ tree 2026-07-19
2026-07-19
├── 2026-07-19-15-28-31 - DSCF7924.JPG
├── 2026-07-19-15-28-31 - DSCF7924.RAF
├── 2026-07-19-15-28-31 - DSCF7924.xmp
├── 2026-07-19-15-29-29 - DSCF7925.JPG
├── 2026-07-19-15-29-29 - DSCF7925.RAF
└── 2026-07-19-15-29-29 - DSCF7925.xmp

0 directories, 6 files