Phone Media Backup Organiser

a tool made with Python to organise files by year & month.

Inspiration

The original inspiration behind his project was to decrease the time it took for me to transfer and organise all of the photos and videos that my mum loved to take on her phone, onto her portable storage drive; I can't tell you the amount of SD cards she has already completely filled up. It also helps with redundancy, as it helps organise your local backup.

Before I created this tool, the reptitive workflow was as follows:

1. Connect phone & portable storage to PC.
2. Begin searching at x point in time, say 2021-05
3. Wait for the search to complete
4. Transfer all found files to portable hard drive (which sometimes took hours)
5. Move on to next month (2021-06) and repeat steps 3-5 until up to date

The record was 12 hours for only 3 months of media!!!

Now that it exists, the longest part of the process is transferring all data (without need of specifying months) to the portable hard drive, and pressing a single button.

Downfalls

This tool works best if you haven't backed up any of your files for a couple of months or years, as if you are simply doing a monthly backup, it is easier to just pop the year/month in the search bar to drag & drop accordingly.

The addition of regex to check for dates via file name would be a helpful addition, and furthermore, examining file metadata would be even more beneficial to the improvement of this tool.