XnView Software

Posted: **Thu Mar 08, 2018 10:48 am**

Hi,

I'm trying to import and sort but cannot create a new folder (either on osx or windows 10). I may be doing something wrong.
So, I want to import photos from

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F:\DCIM\100MSDCF

into

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C:\XPC\Poze\Import test

but, at the same time, create subfolders based on the images' dates. So my expectation is that files will be imported and renamed to something that looks like this

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C:\XPC\Poze\Import test\20180308\20180308_12_45_36_001.jpg
C:\XPC\Poze\Import test\20180308\20180308_12_48_42_002.jpg
C:\XPC\Poze\Import test\20180309\20180309_09_11_22_003.jpg
...

You can see my attempt here:

and the result here (note the double slash in there):

I tried a few combinations I could think of but nothing worked (on either my mac or my pc).
The actual filename expression I'm using is

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{Modified Date [Y-m-d]}\{Modified Date [Ymd_H_M_S]}_{Filename Number}###

Should this work? Can xnviewmp auto-create subfolders and import into them?

Thanks!

Posted: **Sun Mar 11, 2018 12:33 pm**

Just to clarify, maybe this helps:

That is how Photo Mechanic 5 handles file rename and import in OSX. The key here is that the folder name is dynamic, and folders are created/used depending on the images being imported.

Posted: **Mon Mar 12, 2018 10:20 am**

and if you use 'subfolder' field? Filename field is only for filename not subfolder

Posted: **Mon Mar 12, 2018 4:56 pm**

Wow. I could've sworn I tried that and it only created one folder, for the first date it picked up. But it actually works perfectly. Tested on both Win and Mac.
Right, sorry about that. This does exactly what it's supposed to do. Thank you!

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