Photorec does a great job when recovering deleted files. But the result is a huge, unsorted, unnamed amount of files. Especially for external hard drives serving as backup of all the personal data, sorting them is an endless job.
This program sPRF helps you sorting your files. First of all, the **files are copied to own folders for each file type**. Second, **jpgs are distinguished by the year, and optionally by month as well** when they have been taken **and by the event**. We thereby define an event as a time span during them photos are taken. It has a delta of 4 days without a photo to another event. If no date from the past can be detected, these jpgs are put into one folder to be sorted manually.
This copies the recovered files to their file type folder in the destination directory. The recovered files are not modified. If a file already exists in the destination directory, it is skipped. This means that the program can be interrupted with Ctrl+C and then continued at a later point by running it again.
The first output of the programm is the number of files to copy. To count them might take some minutes depending on the amount of recovered files. Afterwareds you get some feedback on the processed files.
All directories contain a maximum of 500 files by default. If there are more for a file type, numbered subdirectories are created. If you want another file-limit, e.g. 1000, pass that number as the third parameter when running the program:
If the original jpg image files were named by ```<Date>_<Time>``` it might be useful to rename the recovered files in the same way. This can be done by adding the parameter -j.