photoarchive4ever

This application helps to organize and archive a photo collection on a PC, Mac or external disk drive.

It copies and renames the picture files and sorts them into sub-directoris for each day, week, month and/or year.
It also supports merging pictures from various sources (cameras, smartphones, drives) into the same diretories.

As a result, you get a well organized, easy-to-handle photo collection on your file system (Drive).
You may rename folders and files, add or remove pictures later as you like.
You hereby remain completly free and independent: you don't need photoarchive4ever or any other special appllication to access your collection. All you need is a PC or Mac with a file explorer.

In this way, you can store your 10000+ pictures in a future proof way, remaining completely free of any application, database or cloud provider.

For more details, see the wiki pages.

Features

copies files from a given source directory into a target directory.
renames the files to something like 20171225_201234_Alice_Canon EOS.jpg
sorts the files into cascaded directories for each day, week, month or year - e. g. ../2017/12/2017-12-25.
corrects the date/time by a given clock correction (to compensate for a wrong camera clock setting).
can merge photos from varios sources (cameras, mobile phones) into one archive.
simple - using only a file system (on PC, Mac, external hard drive, USB Stick, etc.) with a simple structure of directories and sub-directories.
private - means your data goes only on a storage device (e. g. USB drive, Disk, etc.) that remains under your control. No data is stored in a cloud (like dropbox, google, amazon) or transferred away from your computer.
independent - you will never need any specific application to access your photos. All you will need is a computer (PC, Mac, Android...) with a file explorer (file system).
future-proof, forever - this will work for you for decades to come, not just for a few years.
free and open-source, no registration needed.
no installation. Just download the JAR file and double-click it to run it.
easy to use - tooltips explain everything.
works under Windows, Mac or Linux, as it is Java-based.
keeps your privacy, transfers no data or pictures away from your computer.