[Feature Request] Camera Upload to custom folders

Feature Suggestions
1

The one feature preventing me from using the camera upload feature, is an ability to put photos/videos into date folders. There are two parts to this request: using a custom folder structure for storing content, and storing video and photo content to different libraries.

Personally, I think Rapid Photo Downloader has an excellent implementation of the needed parts written in python; however, here are some examples of features related to this request:

  • read photo EXIF metadata to create folders and rename photos.
  • You could have a couple presets like:
  • flat - no folders
  • one folder per day (example: 2018-02-23\photo.jpg)
  • A folder for each year, with folders for each month inside - example 2018\02\photo.jpg
  • Choose a custom folder structure using a simple syntax, for example:
    • “$YYYY-$MM-$DD$Camera-$Name” - this would create a folder in ISO date format from the photo EXIF data, then append the camera name to the file name.
    • “$YYYY$MM$DD$Camera$Name” - This would break the Year, Month, Day, and Camera model data into sub folders in the library. It would use the original file name.

The types of EXIF data I use to rename and sort photos might not match what other people use, but it would be really cool if I could just have one app upload the photos to my computer, rather than using one tool to upload photos, and a second tool to sort them into folders.

Because I am looking to remove Rapid Photo Downloader from my workflow (at least with my phone), I think the documentation and screenshots of that tool would be relevant for reference purposes. That tool does a lot more than Plex does or should do, as it is designed for professional photographers that need to import many photos from/to multiple locations at once. However, for reference, here is a photo of how the GUI could look for the tool (screenshot of Rapid Photo Downloader, please ignore the job code and file name parts, I am mainly concerned with creating folder structure):

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Here is the feature documentation for Rapid Photo Downloader:
damonlynch.net/rapid/documentation/#directorystructure

2

Yes! The lack of custom folder/file naming is exactly why I’m still using Androids Sweet Home app to upload photos and videos to my server.

Plex, please implement!

3

I would also love to see this kind of feature. All I’m looking for is for Plex to automatically grab those photos off of my phone and put them into folders based on the date taken. Currently I use other software to perform this action, but this has a downside: I only perform this action once every few months (at most) and so when I do that it ruins the “recently added” section of Plex because it is now full of “new” photos from months ago.

4

How do we get this bumped up! It needs more attention and votes!

5

Still patiently waiting… :grin:. At least an acknowledgement of this request would be nice.

6

It’s the time of the year when I have enough time to perform long-time needed photo storage organisation. I thought of giving my Plex a chance also for photos and considered the camera upload feature and even switching to plex pass for that purpose.
I intend to upload my photos in the same structure I use for Lightroom for years in a folder structure years/month/day and was very surprised that this is not possible with Plex Camera Upload. I’d have bought a plex pass right away, but now I’m looking into other solutions to perform the upload for me.
So I upvote this feature, for me it’s a showstopper for plex pass actually.

7

Plex have announced the “camera upload” feature will be discontinued.

In line with this announcement, we’re closing related feature suggestions.