Automatically Copy Your Pictures from a Digital Camera

The Problem
Ok... so who gets sick of all of the stupid pop-ups from the media detectors? I personally hate all media detectors because even the best are slow, don't organize your photos by date and month, and are always in your face!

The Solution
I believe the best structure for organizing pictures is: root\YYYY\MM month. This structure is by far easiest to navigate (using Picasa). Each folder does not get too big (I take a lot of pictures) and it is easy at least to remember, within a couple of months, when you took a picture. Also, it is nice because the years AND months actually sort correctly.


The Script
Anyways, I wrote a python script that reads your removable drives and finds DCIM folders and copies them to a specified root folder in the structure specified above.
This script works great for me, but you could add a bit more checking and error logging... It's just over a hundred lines and I wrote it in the last hour and a half (I got sick of copying all the pictures over manually...) You might want to add the -h option once for usage. So here it is:
copy_pics.py<br />from optparse import OptionParser<br />import time, logging, os, sys, win32file, string, shutil<br />from os import sep<br /><br />class DCIM_Mover:<br />def __init__(self, src, dest, logger = None):<br /># Setup Logger<br />if logger is None:<br /> logger = logging.getLogger('DCIM_Mover')<br />self.logger = logger<br />self.src = src<br />self.dest = dest<br /><br />def transfer(self):<br /># The method called to transfer files from source to destination<br />self.logger.warning('Moving All Pictures from %s to %s.' %(self.src, self.dest))<br /># Walk through the root source directory<br />for root, dirs, files in os.walk(self.src, topdown=False):<br /> for name in files:<br /> src_path = os.path.join(root,name)<br /> dest_dir, dest_name = self.getDest(src_path)<br /> dest_dir = os.path.join(self.dest, dest_dir)<br /> if not os.access(dest_dir, os.F_OK):<br /> os.makedirs(dest_dir)<br /> dest_path = os.path.join(dest_dir, dest_name)<br /> self.logger.info('Moving %s to %s' %(src_path, dest_path))<br /> try:<br /> # Move them or log an error.<br /> # By copying first you at least copy it over, it just still exists on the disk.<br /> shutil.copy(src_path, dest_path)<br /> os.remove(src_path)<br /> except:<br /> self.logger.error('Could not move file: %s' %src_path)<br /> for name in dirs:<br /> src_dir = os.path.join(root,name)<br /> try:<br /> os.rmdir(src_dir)<br /> except:<br /> self.logger.error('Could not remove folder: %s' %src_dir)<br /><br />def getDest(self, src_path):<br /># This is where we format the folder structure<br />ctime = time.gmtime(os.path.getctime(src_path))<br />dir = time.strftime('%Y', ctime) + sep<br />dir += time.strftime('%m %b', ctime)<br />name = src_path.split(sep)[-1]<br />return dir, name<br /><br /><br /><br />def removabledisks():<br /># Find and return all drives that are removable<br />driveletters=[]<br />for drive in string.letters[len(string.letters)/2:]:<br />if win32file.GetDriveType(drive+":")==win32file.DRIVE_REMOVABLE:<br /> driveletters.append(drive+":")<br />return driveletters<br /><br /><br />def getDCIMDirs():<br /># Find removable drives with a DCIM directory<br />drives = []<br />for drive in removabledisks():<br />path = '%s\\DCIM' %drive<br />if os.access(path, os.F_OK):<br /> drives.append(path)<br />return drives<br /><br />def setupLogging(level):<br />if not os.access('log', os.F_OK):<br />os.mkdir('log')<br />logging.basicConfig(level=level,<br /> format='%(asctime)s [%(levelname)s] %(message)s',<br /> filename=os.path.abspath('log/copy_pics.log'),<br /> filemode='w')<br /># define a Handler which writes INFO messages or higher to the sys.stderr<br />console = logging.StreamHandler()<br />console.setLevel(level)<br /># set a format which is simpler for console use<br />formatter = logging.Formatter('%(name)-5s: %(asctime)-3s [%(levelname)-5s] %(message)s')<br /># tell the handler to use this format<br />console.setFormatter(formatter)<br /># add the handler to the root logger<br />logging.getLogger('').addHandler(console)<br />logger = logging.getLogger('TestMonitor')<br />return logger<br /><br />def main():<br /># This method parses the options set at the command line and initializes the logger.<br />parser = OptionParser()<br />parser.add_option("-l", "--logging", type='int', dest="debug", help="LOG level. See http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html. Default: INFO", metavar="LOG", default=logging.INFO)<br />parser.add_option("-s", "--src", type='string', dest="src", help="Source drive or DIRECTORY. Script will search for all DCIM directories if not specified.", metavar="DIRECTORY", default=None)<br />parser.add_option("-d", "--dest", type='string', dest="dest", help="Copy pictures to DIRECTORY(not including year or month). This is required.", metavar="DIRECTORY", default=None)<br />opts, args = parser.parse_args()<br />logger = setupLogging(opts.debug)<br />return opts, args, logger<br /><br />if __name__ == "__main__":<br />opts, args, logger = main()<br />if opts.dest is None:<br />logger.critical('Destination not provided. Please specify a destination via the --dest=DIR command line option')<br />sys.exit(1)<br />if opts.src is None:<br />dirs = getDCIMDirs()<br />for dir in dirs:<br /> logger.debug('Moving Pictures from: %s' %(dir))<br /> mover = DCIM_Mover(dir, opts.dest)<br /> mover.transfer()<br />else:<br />mover = DCIM_Mover(opts.src, opts.dest)<br />mover.transfer()<br />So, if you're like me and have an all-in-one internal card reader, your drive letter basically never changes. I just create a batch file and put a link to it on my quick launch. This is my batch file:

copy_pics.bat
<br />$(DIRECTORY)\copy_pics.py -d E:\Pictures -s L:\DCIM<br />

I'll probably create a registry key that will run every time I mount a removable drive and check for a DCIM folder... but that can wait till tomorrow... I told my wife I'd come to bed over an hour ago. Oops.