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Renames photo files that have the wrong extension
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # credit to u/nkings10's post on Reddit which was the template for this: https://www.reddit.com/r/photoprism/comments/1ev7zxm/import_errors/ | |
| # Directory containing images | |
| IMAGE_DIR="/path/to/your/images" | |
| # Find all files recursively and process each one | |
| find "$IMAGE_DIR" -type f | while read -r file; do | |
| # Detect the MIME type using `file` | |
| mime_type=$(file --mime-type -b "$file") | |
| # Determine the correct extension based on MIME type | |
| case "$mime_type" in | |
| image/jpeg) | |
| new_ext="jpg" | |
| ;; | |
| image/png) | |
| new_ext="png" | |
| ;; | |
| image/gif) | |
| new_ext="gif" | |
| ;; | |
| image/bmp) | |
| new_ext="bmp" | |
| ;; | |
| image/tiff) | |
| new_ext="tiff" | |
| ;; | |
| image/heic) | |
| new_ext="heic" | |
| ;; | |
| *) | |
| echo "Skipping $file, unrecognized MIME type: $mime_type" | |
| continue | |
| ;; | |
| esac | |
| if [ "${file##*.}" = $new_ext ]; then | |
| echo "Skipping $file, already has correct extension: $new_ext" | |
| continue | |
| fi | |
| # Extract the filename without the extension | |
| base_name=$(basename "$file" | sed -e 's/\.[a-zA-Z0-9]*$//') | |
| # Get the directory of the file | |
| dir_name=$(dirname "$file") | |
| # Rename the file | |
| mv "$file" "$dir_name/$base_name.$new_ext" | |
| echo "Renamed $file to $dir_name/$base_name.$new_ext" | |
| done | |
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