Organise photos into dated folders
Portman2 files every imported photo into folders by year, month and day and names it from when it was taken — or into folders and names of your own choosing.
Every library has a filing shape: the folders an imported photo goes into, and the name it is given. It is chosen when the library is created and is the same on every computer that opens the library.
The usual shape
Unless the library says otherwise, a photo taken on 23 September 2026 is filed in 2026\2026-09\2026-09-23, and named from the time it was taken, a short fingerprint of its contents and the tags it was imported with.
Choosing a shape
When you create a library, How photographs are filed lets you set the Folders and File names templates, with a sample of what they produce. If the photo folder you pick is already filed some other way, Portman2 notices and offers to file imports the same way.
For an existing library
Settings ▸ Library ▸ Folder shows how this library files imports under How photographs are filed. A library that never recorded a shape, and whose folders turn out to be filed some other way, is offered Use this shape. Recording a shape only decides where the next imports go: nothing already in the library moves.
Duplicates
The fingerprint is how an import recognises a file that is already in the library, whatever it is called.