Google Drive: How to sort images by date
Rename your Google Drive images by date with this simple, open source web app. Sort in ascending or descending order. Undo anytime.
Imagine you’re going for a hike. You’re enjoying the view from the top of a mountain. You start the ascent. You’re heading back down again. You arrive at the trailhead ready to embark on an adventure.
Wait, something’s wrong. You probably wouldn’t tell a story in this order. And you probably wouldn’t want to look at a slideshow if the images aren’t in chronological order.
Luckily, there’s a solution to your problem. Assuming you use Google Drive, all you have to do is launch imageSort, enter the name of the folder where you keep your image files, and after a few seconds, they will be sorted by date.
In case you want to revert to the previous state, simply reenter the same folder name and the original filenames will be restored. Just make sure not to delete the spreadsheet titled original_filenames_do_not_delete.
Launch imageSort
Known issue: In some cases where a folder contains a very large number of files (several thousand or more), the script can exceed its runtime limit and fail.
Privacy policy
When using imageSort, at no time does any personal data get transferred to any third parties. Please don’t just take my word for it, have a look at the source code and feel free to use, share and modify my code.
imageSort requires permission to view and manage the files in your Google Drive and permission to view and manage your spreadsheets in Google Drive. The latter is needed to create a new spreadsheet in your Google Drive containing the original filenames, so you can undo any changes by simply running the script for a second time. You can revoke these permissions at any time if you don’t want to keep using imageSort.