Photo archive template directory
The contents of this are copied to each archive drive root.
$ cp -R ./media PATH_TO_ARCHIVE_DRIVE
The scripts are stored with the archive for generational compatibility, both building and documenting the structure the archive was created with.
Scripts
media
├── img
│ └── my
│ └── work
│ ├── sync-flash.sh
│ ├── process-archive.sh
│ ├── compress-archive.sh
│ └── update-exif.sh
├── README.md
└── tree.sh
README.md
A basic introductory description. This is here to introduce a new user to the archive structure and basics.
sync-archive.sh
Ingest media into the archive and prepare it for further steps in the workflow
This script can be run interactively:
$ ./sync-archive.sh
This will:
- Create the directory structure (see: Archive directory structure)
- Copy and verify the contents of 1 or more external media to the archive directory
- Prepare the archive for further work via
process-archive.sh - Compress the archive via
compress-archive.sh
process-archive.sh
Process the syncronized data for use with ImageGrid.Viewer
$ ./process-archive.sh [FLAGS] PATH
This will:
- Extract previews from RAW files
- Extract metadata
- Build index
compress-archive.sh
Compress archived files.
$ ./compress-archive.sh [FLAGS] PATH
This is designed to selectively compress uncompressed raw files (Sony) achiving +/- 2x compression factor.
By default this uses filesystem compression, supporting ntfs (on windows) and btrfs transparent native compression, but can be configured to use various archiving formats.
update-exif.sh
Update EXIF of output previews from corresponding .psd / RAW files.
$ ./update-exif.sh [FLAGS] PATH
tree.sh
Generte and check arcive file list.
This provides a basic and fast way to check high level tree consistency against mostly humn-error.
Archive directory structure
media
├── img
│ ├── my
│ │ └── work
│ │ ├── - 20240310 - shoot directory (multi flash card)
│ │ │ ├── 20240310.001
│ │ │ │ ├── ...
│ │ │ │ └── preview (RAW)
│ │ │ ├── 20240310.002
│ │ │ │ ├── ...
│ │ │ │ └── preview (RAW)
│ │ │ ├── ...
│ │ │ └── preview (RAW)
│ │ ├── - 20240310.001 - shoot directory (single flash card)
│ │ │ ├── ...
│ │ │ └── preview (RAW)
│ │ ├── 20240310 - shoot directory (fully sorted)
│ │ │ └── ...
│ │ └── ...
│ └── others
│ └── ...
├── video
│ └── ...
├── ...
└── tree.sh
Index root directory (single source media)
<date>.<index> - <info>/
Index root (multiple source media)
<date> - <info>/
Each synchronised media is stored in:
<date> - <info>/<date>.<index>/
Leading "-" indicates a not fully sorted shoot.
- <date> - <info>/
This is the default as created by sync-flash.sh, renaming (removing the leading "- ") should be done by the user.