Hi at all, I need to know if there is available an application, to install on NAS, able to reorganize a folder with thousands of pictures in subfolders by date/time. Thanks for the support. Bye

A cron job set to run a script like the one below just before midnight would do it for newly created files after you clean up what you already have. TODAY=`date +%F` mkdir /data/Camera/Archive/$TODAY mv /data/Camera/Active/* /data/Camera/Archive/$TODAY That will create a directory named in the form YEAR-MONTH-DAY in the specified archive folder (which I called "/data/Camera/Archive") and then move all files in the normal destination directory (my /data/Camera/Active) to it. Of course, you have to use directory names that are valid on your system. And if there are other files that should not be moved, you'll need to be more selective than "*" as to files to move. Any file still being written to won't be moved. But since you asked for an app, not a cron script, I suspect this is outside of your comfort zone.

nikdis wrote:What is a cron job? How I can I implement this? Can I do it directly in NAS? You could do it directly on the NAS, but you need to spend some time learning Linux first.

The NAS has Apache installed by default. You can use an add-on to install PHP. As for the rest, a cron job is a basic Linux function and not something I feel comfortable covering here in the forum or what I think it is for. The CRON job capability of the NAS is just standard Debian Linux (not that there is a big difference in Linux flavors when it comes to this). But there is a lot to know about Linux before tackling a CRON job. Google has plenty of sources for this information. To get shell access to the NAS to do it, you need to enable SSH and use an SSH client (there is one built in to the latest versions of Win10) to access the NAS using the name "root" and the same pasword as your admin one. Examples you find on the internet for using the shell may preface some commands with "sudo". You do not do that on the NAS because you are logged in as "root". If you create logs or anything that might grow in size, make sure you do not put them on the OS partition. Put them somewhere under /data. Before you start messing with your NAS "under the hood", you should make sure you have your data backed up in case you do something so severe it requires an OS re-install. You may also want to start the learning process using a Virtual machine: Setup-ReadyNAS-OS-on-VirtualBox.

Finally, I did it. I create a VM like Sandshark told me and I set up the crontab file. Everythings works like I suppose to. Thanks to all, I apprecciate the help. Probably the best way was to do it by a shell script but I found more helps with php language. So I create a php script able to create folder and move the correct files inside the folder. Thanks again for support

Glad I could help. If you expect to do any more text editing on the NAS, I suggest Nano over VI. apt-get install nano. It's small enough not to worry about installing on the OS partition. You can also always use a text editor in Windows that supports Linux format files (EoL is LF, not CR-LF), put it in a share you can access from Windows, and then move it where it needs to go using shell commands. If you don't upload it with admin credentials, you'll likely need to change ownership if it's for use by the system..

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Sandshark
Sensei - Experienced User
Feb 26, 2019
It can be done through some fairly complex SSH shell commands. You are going to be much better off mapping the drive on a PC and using software that runs there. As long as you are moving between folders, not shares, they can be moved rather than copied and deleted (the latter taking WAY longer). You may need to verify that the software you have chosen is doing that.

The Robocopy command from Windows is another option, but it can be a bit daunting. You don't want to mess up and delete your files.
- nikdis
  Tutor
  Feb 26, 2019
  Thanks for your answer.
  
  The problem is regarding video surveillance... The IP camera (FOSCAM) is able to save just in one folder on NAS, so I will have thousands of pictures. When I try to connect with windows explorer to the storage folder of the IP camera, the system is very slow to load the preview of the images. But the NAS is the only one "clever" system always switched ON.
  
  Do you have some other suggestion how to avoid this kind of problem?
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Feb 26, 2019
    There's no automatic packages I'm aware of that will do this for you. Some folks use Blue Iris security software - it's possible that has some features that would keep things organized. But that would need to run on a PC.
    
    Since this is an on-going process, you can simplify the needed script. For instance, create a new share for a foscam archive. Once a day the script creates a new dated folder in the archive share, and moves everything in foscam share into the dated folder. That won't organize what you have already, but it would keep things organized later on.

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