Sep 06, '07 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: mortimerpa
I have written a (GPL licensed) Automator "Move" action (for 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.
To install the action, move the file named MetaDataMove.action to your user's Library » Automator folder (or to the top-level Library » Automator folder to make it available to all users). Then launch Automator, and you'll find a new Move action in the Finder section.
This Automator action provides a nice interface to create droplets and folder actions to use the power of ExifTool by Phil Harvey -- it can deal with all of the file formats supported by this tool, from EXIF data to Flash. See the ExifTool tag names documentation for more information on what's available.
You can read in more detail about the action, as well as download it, in this post on my blog.
[robg adds: I've also mirrored the file [960KB] here on hints, but you should check the source first for a newer version, and use this link only in case the original is no longer available. I tested the action, and it installed as expected, and seemed to work fine.]
