sreekaransrinath/file_organizer

A script that looks through any folder you tell it to and moves the files to respective subfolders based on the file type.

File Organizer

or 'Organizer' if you prefer.

Table Of Contents:

1. Overview

2. Syntax

3. Supported File types

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Overview

Arranges files into folders based on their extension type.

No dependencies or additional libraries required.

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Syntax

1. Start your favorite Command-Line program, in administrator or sudo mode as per your Operating System.

2. Change your current directory, to where the project is saved.

3. Copy paths of your Source and Destination Folders

   Source Folder ---> Where your files are stored to be organised.

   Destination Folder ---> Where you want your files to be organised.

4. For Linux based systems,

python3 fileorganizer_linux.py <source_folder> <destination_folder>

For Windows systems,

python fileorganizer_windows.py <source_folder> <destination_folder>

5. Replace the 'source_folder' and 'destination_folder' in the commands as per your choice.

6. Let it run !

7. You might be asked a few questions, if there is a possibility of overwriting. Answer corresponding to your required action.

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Supported File Types

There are around 1406 extensions currently supported.

1. Documents

2. Financial Records

3. Media

• Adobe - AfterEffects
• Adobe - Director
• Audio
• Audio Editing
• Images
• Playlist
• Video
• Video Editing

4. Other

• Compressed
• Desktop-Publishing
• Disc
• Encoded
• Encrypted
• Executable
• Fonts
• Internet-related
• VMs (Virtual Machines)

5. Programming

• ABAP
• AGS Script
• AMPL
• ANTLR
• APL
• ASP
• ActionScript
• Ada
• Agda
• Alloy
• AppleScript
• Arc
• Arduino
• AspectJ
• Assembly
• Augeas
• AutoHotKey
• AutoIt
• Awk
• Batch File
• Befunge
• Bison
• BlitzBasic
• BlitzMax
• Bluespec
• Boo
• BrightScript
• Bro
• C
• C#
• C++
• C2hs Haskell

Currently in development stage

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file_organizer's Issues

Add new file types to extensiondict.py

extensiondict.py contains a dictionary of file types, extensions and where they should be placed in the file organization system.

While it is fairly extensive at the moment, I'm sure I haven't covered every file type possible.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to add new file types (and the directories they belong in) to the extensiondict.py file.

This message will self-destruct in 5 seconds :P

Access rights to the repo

Problem pushing bulk changes to the repo. Refer the below image

(py37) file_organizer (better-boy)$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

	modified:   README.md
	modified:   fileorganizer_linux.py
	modified:   fileorganizer_windows.py

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
(py37) file_organizer (better-boy)$ git add .
(py37) file_organizer (better-boy)$ git commit -m "modularized and formatted code accroding to pylint"
[master eb85e69] modularized and formatted code accroding to pylint
 3 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
(py37) file_organizer (better-boy)$ git push origin master
Enter passphrase for key '/Users/better-boy/.ssh/id_rsa': 
ERROR: Permission to sreekaran16/file_organizer.git denied to Better-Boy.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.**

ERROR: Permission to sreekaran16/file_organizer.git denied to Better-Boy.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

@sreekaran16

Hence, I would be creating 2 PRs for 2 file changes. One for linux and windows.

Code formatting

This is a good use case. But for others to contribute, code should be properly formatted and modularized. Hence, I would like to take this task and raise a PR. Confirm pls

Delete Duplicates

extensiondict.py is riddled with duplicates from all the PRs I accepted, your task would require you to find and eliminate said duplicate keys.

Needs a better, more in-depth README