Photos
[organize]strategy = "photos"template = "{camera}/{year}/{month}"Placeholders
Section titled “Placeholders”{camera}{year}{month}{day}{year}/{month}/{day} come from the EXIF capture date (DateTimeOriginal) — never the file’s own mtime.
{camera} combines the EXIF Make and Model fields, with deduplication: if Model already contains Make (common on several brands), only Model is used, avoiding a folder like "Canon Canon EOS R5".
Reading EXIF
Section titled “Reading EXIF”Auto-detects JPEG, TIFF, HEIF/HEIC, PNG, and WebP directly from file bytes — no external tool required.
No location placeholder
Section titled “No location placeholder”There is deliberately no {gps} or location placeholder. Embedding capture coordinates in a folder name is an easy way to leak where a photo was taken without noticing.
Missing metadata is a skip, never a guess
Section titled “Missing metadata is a skip, never a guess”A file with no EXIF at all (common for PNG/WebP, or a JPEG with metadata stripped) is treated the same as any file missing the specific field its template needs — skipped with a clear reason, never given an invented value.
Recursion
Section titled “Recursion”photos does not support --recursive — see Recursive Organization for why (shared by all four metadata strategies).