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This approach has one major drawback, enforced upon it by other apps.

It relies on accurate file creation dates and EXIF data – the metadata stored in all image files.

Sometimes this data is missing or incorrect. My Hazel rules sort files based on their creation dates. One of the previous photo storage cloud services – either Loom or Everpix (the culprit, I think) – re-stamped the file creation dates. This meant I had a bunch of different images all with the same creation dates and, thus, all the same filename if I ran my Hazel rules on them. I thought I could probably recover the proper dates by using the EXIF data.