Automatic folders (sorting pictures by date)

[Anuna_s]

I am already looking for a while for a tiny program which can simplify my life. I am using macOS and I am hoping to find a solution to sort out my folders with pictures. At the moment I have 1 big folder which is basically a mess: thousands of pictures from my Canon reflex camera, my phone! I would like to build up some structure with a folder for each year and underneath subfolders with the date and in those folders the pictures of course.
Is this possible using automator? Or something else?
On the web I only found small programs to do this for windows... not for a mac. Any help is appreciated!! thank you so much!

 

[cwanja]

Automator should be able to do accomplish something like that. You might have to already have the folder structure created. But I believe there is an attribute that you could tell Automator (or Apple Scripts) to look at and move the file into the corresponding year folder.

Not at a Mac at the moment.

Alternatively, if you could add the column you want to break them up by (year for example) to a Finder window and then sort on that column it will organize them chronologically. Then you can mass select and move into folders.