3/18    I'm looking for a file management utility that will copy files
        and create directories based on the date of the file.  I recently
        bought a new digital camera (old was canon; new is casio) and their
        file storage naming conventions and directory structures are totally
        differently.  Each different "loader" does a different thing.  And
        Picasa doesn't copy and create directories based on file date.  What
        I want to end up with is a directory structure like this:

        My Pictures/2006_03_18/img12345.jpg

        I don't care about the filename since each camera has their own
        naming convention.  But the directory name has to be customizable
        to that exact format.  SW doesn't have to be free.  I'll pay for this.
        Thank.
        \_ This sounds like a 5-10 minute perl hack to opendir/readdir a
           directory structure, cd'ing around, then moving files based on
           an fstat.  I suspect any of dozens of people here could write this
           blind folded, drunk, asleep and off their meds.  Or maybe a list
           created with find piped through perl.  There's a lot of ways to
           do something like this depending on what your starting structure
           looks like.
        \_ perl -MFile::Find -MPOSIX -e 'find(sub{-f&&rename($_,strftime("/My Pi\
ctures/%Y_%m_%d/$_",localtime((stat)[9])))},".")'
        \_ perl -MFile::Find -MPOSIX -e 'find(sub{-f&&rename($_,strftime("/My Pi\
ctures/%Y_%m_%d/$_",localtime((stat(_))[9])))},".")'
           Change the part after strftime to suit your format and run this from
           the directory you want it to start the search at.  --dbushong
           \_ This breaks if you have any %'s in your filename, btw, though
              that isn't hard to fix.  --dbushong
           \_ Thanks for the responses.  I guess I wasn't clear.  By the
              date I mean the date of the picture embedded in the EXIF header
              inside the jpeg file, not the date of the file itself.  And
              this has to be a windows xp program.  I can't write code anymore
              so I'm looking for some generic photo manager SW that can do
              this.  Thanks.  -OP
              \_ Oh, just download some real tool then, like Organizr or
                 Picassa.  (Though modding that line of perl to use EXIF header
                 Picasa.  (Though modding that line of perl to use EXIF header
                 is also easy :-) --dbushong