Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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Organize Photos Into Year & Month Folders

You can use a command line tool called exiftool to organize your photos into sub folders.

On a Mac Install with HomeBrew

brew install exiftool

For monthly folders run this in your photos folder

exiftool -d %m "-directory<datetimeoriginal" *.jpg

For year/month folders run this

exiftool -d %Y/%m "-directory<datetimeoriginal" *.jpg

All sorted! Checkout the exiftool website for more details.