Customization options for the Photo Downloader

Question

Hi -
I've set my option in PSE 9 when importing photos to Shot Date (yyyy mm dd).  But was wondering if there is any way to customize the options beyond what is available in the dropdown of the dialog for creating subfolders?  I would like to avoid creating so many of the daily subfolders and would prefer something along the lines of Shot Date (yyyy mm).
I suppose an alternative would be to import them without creating subfolders, but moving images after the fact can give the catalog fits.  Any suggestions?  Was hoping this might be a registry change or something.
Thanks

Answer 1

No, you can't change this default date folder structure.
Note that if you want to, the risk with moving files is if you do it outside of the Organizer.
After a batch import, the Organizer being in folder view, you could select all the imported media files from a given day and move them to the month folder. (CTRL A then drag to the master folder in the left panel : really simple and quick)
A possible problem would be if you have some files with the same file name as other files already in the files folder : the Organizer will then add suffixes like -1 to the file name to avoid overwriting the old files.
Before using the default date structure, like you I did use the 'year/month' scheme ; thinking about it, I decided the choice for 'Year/mont/day' was the good one, my former choice had no other advantage than an aesthetic simpler view outside Elements.