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Metadata Mover 1.0
**Function:** Take files with metadata (EXIF, ID3, ...) and uses EXIFtool to move them in sub-directories according to a specified pattern using the file's metadata.
**Author**: [Mortimer](http://6v8.gamboni.org/Move-Rename-files-according-to.html)
**Requires**: A list of file (one per line, Automator automatically
converts file list anyway)
**Input**: (Text) One or more files (one per line) to copy/move
**Output**: (Text) The moved files (in new position), one per line
**Notes**: This is an Automator action (for Apple Automator.app) that takes a list of files as input and will move them according to a special pattern which can use the metadata fields of the file.
You will be able to move images according to their EXIF data (date taken, camera model, ...), move audio files according to their ID3 tags (artist, title, ...), move PDF files according to their author,
etc.
[Detailed Instructions](http://6v8.gamboni.org/Move-Rename-files-according-to.html).
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version 1.1 is out and fixes some minor bugs. Get it from the original site.
Comment by Mortimer — February 13, 2008 @ 12:13 pm
version 1.2 is out to include the latest version of ExifTool that corrects some minor bug in the Exif processing.
Comment by Mortimer — February 15, 2008 @ 9:29 am
doesn’t work with some mp3 id3 tags…
Comment by lou — March 5, 2008 @ 1:30 am
This comment is to the person who wrote this workflow. I would like to know if you have a way of pulling/getting meta data from webpages into a simple text document? It would be a great help. thanks – Matt
Comment by Matt — April 30, 2008 @ 1:51 pm
I’m curious if there’s a way to fine tune how the tags are pulled, ie. track numbers as double digits, spaces in file names, etc. As far as I can tell, it only uses single digit track numbers and any spaces in the filenames are converted to underscores. Anything that can control these?
Comment by Zoo — June 30, 2008 @ 2:21 pm
I am trying to use Metadatamover inside an automator workflow, to move jpegs into folders for each hour of the day. The input folder contains about 20,000 files, but each time I run the automator workflow, it only moves about 60 files and it stops. is this a limit of metadatamover??
Comment by luke11 — August 30, 2008 @ 5:30 pm