A powerful Bash script to organize your images, videos, or audio files into year-based folders using metadata — while detecting duplicates using MD5 checksums.

✅ Supports EXIF-aware sorting
✅ Prevents duplicate files by content (MD5)
✅ Works recursively across folders
✅ Deletes empty directories automatically
✅ Dry-run mode for safe testing

• 📷 Organize Images, 🎞️ Videos, 🎵 Audio, or All
• 🕒 Uses DateTimeOriginal, CreateDate, or FileModifyDate
• 🧠 Automatically avoids duplicate content using MD5 hashing
• 🧹 Removes empty folders after sorting
• 🧪 --dry-run option available
• 🔏 Logs everything in organize_<type>.log

Ensure these are installed:

• bash
• exiftool (for extracting timestamps)
• md5sum
• find

On Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libimage-exiftool-perl

chmod +x media_organizer_md5.sh
./media_organizer_md5.sh /path/to/parent/folder [--dry-run]
./media_organizer_md5.sh /path/to/parent/folder

You’ll be prompted to choose:

1. Images
2. Videos
3. Audio
4. All (Images + Videos + Audio)

./media_organizer_md5.sh /media/zz/CC70-D0--/Media_Backups/ --dry-run

→ Simulates moving your media into /media/zz/CC70-D0--/Media_Backups/Images/YYYY, etc., without changing anything.

ParentDirectory/
├── Images/
│   └── 2024/
│       └── 2024-05-20_14-22-31.jpg
├── Videos/
│   └── 2023/
│       └── 2023-11-02_18-07-00.mp4
├── Audio/
│   └── 2021/
│       └── 2021-08-19_10-05-12.mp3

Before moving a file, the script:

• Computes its MD5 hash
• Compares against existing files in the target folder
• Skips if identical content is already present

No clutter. No overwrite. Just smart moves.

MIT License

Developed by [debjit018]. Feel free to fork, suggest improvements, or contribute!