Simplexifier
Simplexifer is a tool for renaming your JPEG files based on a user specified pattern and the date and time information from the JPEG’s EXIF data . And makes it possible to rename a whole bunch of photos to something like “Vacation – 2007-11-04-15.45.31.jpg” where the date and time is retrieved automatically.
It is written in Mono and is using libexif. The libexif-sharp bindings were taken from F-Spot. It was developed on Ubuntu using MonoDevelop (when it wasn’t crashing).
The windows version is using some code from the codeproject and was developed in SharpDevelop.
By the way; I don’t guarantee that your photos aren’t deleted, so make backups.
The dependencies for Windows:
.NET framework (if not allready present, try first without)
And the dependencies for Linux:
libexif
mono
gtk-sharp
gdk-sharp
glib-sharp
Mono.Unix
(they should be included with most modern distributions)
Screenshot linux:
Screenshot Windows:
Simplexifier is licenced under GPLv3.
Download
Version 0.1 – Linux
Buildable source
Linux binaries
MonoDevelop Project
Version 0.1 – Windows
Binary (.exe)
Source
Notes about the file name pattern
The pattern you specify is parsed using the DateTime structure ToString () method, and is following the specification of System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo Class which can be studied in detail in the mono reference. Scroll down to the second table, Format pattern.
For instance the year will be displayed if you put in yyyy and the month if you use MM, as you see there is a difference of how many letters you put in. For instance MMM show the short name of the month, i.e. sep. And MM show the month number with a leading zero. Refer to the table linked above for a full list.
The .jpg extension is appended automatically. The standard file name pattern: yyyy-MM-dd-HH.MM.ss gives a file name of i.e.: 2007-11-09-15.45.13.jpg. If you want to add normal text you need to escape each character with the \ character. If you want filenames of the format: Vacation 2007-11-09-15.45.13.jpg you would need to enter: \V\a\c\a\t\i\o\n yyyy-MM-dd-HH.MM.ss in the file name box. If a file name exists a “-” and a number will be added at the end of the file name.
You can also wrap your text in “”" if you don’t want it to be parsed. For instance: “”"Vacation”"” yyyy-MM-dd-HH.MM.ss.
Bugs
If you should discover one of the many bugs I hid for your excitement, please mail them to me and I’ll tag them as found and perhaps remove them for the perhaps-to-come next release.
- gaute
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