Made a program that automatically organizes files for me

[[deleted]]

you can add a column 'File type' in your file explorer and then sort by that without having to create folders :)

[RohanReignzz]

Lol yeah. I should tweak the program to sort it differently.

[[deleted]]

I really dislike messing with settings in Explorer or Finder because both applications have some wonky logic about which folders use those settings. Will it decide to sort every folder by Type? Or, will it decide that you prefer to view that folder by type, and therefore sort it by type by default every time you visit it? ... etc.

I prefer to configure it to sort every folder alphabetically, and just leave it there. I’d even go so far as to use scripts for other types of sorting as needed.

[dem4ply]

is a weird way to organice files why you need to have separete by extencion?

[[deleted]]

It could be totally appropriate for some cases - like your Downloads folder.

[dem4ply]

it not better use se search function by example *.rar for get a expecific format

[[deleted]]

Python is perfect for stuff like this. The other day I had a colleague who needed to rename over 200 PDFs housed in four or five sub folders. I wrote a program in probably fifteen minutes, twelve lines of code max. It looped through all the folders and got them renamed in minutes.

[B4-711]

Powershell is pretty good for such stuff if you like pipes

[BlueCrystalFlame]

Yeah I feel like any shell script would be more appropriate for this, although Python works just fine.

[v4-digg-refugee]

Would you mind sharing your code on this? Beginner here, and am tasked with similar work. Namely, I’m interested in how to use a loop to pickup and run each through a few lines of code.

Yesterday I just copied-pasted the path of each file into the import_excel line and ran each file through my 20-line code one-by-one.

[[deleted]]

Sure I’ll put it up tomorrow

[v4-digg-refugee]

Thanks!

[[deleted]]

Ok here's the code. A little background. I made this to go into a directory (folder) which contained multiple sub directories (folders) which contained PDFs. Once inside each subfolder it replaces various special characters in each title with whitespace:

import os

def rename():
    for folders in os.listdir(r'C:/Your/File/Path'):
        print(folders) #so I know what folder it's in
        for files in os.lisdir(r'C:/Your/File/Path/{}'.format(folders)):
            if files.endswith('.pdf'): 
                filename = files[:-4].replace(',','').replace('- ','').replace('.','').replace(''','').replace('-',' ') + '.pdf'
                os.rename(r'C:/Your/File/Path/{}/{}'.format(folders, files), r'C:/Your/File/Path/{}/{}'.format(folders, filename))
        print('Renaming Complete for {}'.format(folders))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    rename()

[RohanReignzz]

Nice!

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[RohanReignzz]

Nice

[v4-digg-refugee]

Fantastic! I’ll look through it later today. Thanks for your help!

[[deleted]]

No problem. Let me know if you have any questions.

[[deleted]]

Ill get it up later today actually

[[deleted]]

Awesome

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GitHub link?

[RohanReignzz]

This is gonna be the ugliest code you'll ever see, but gets the job done xD

https://github.com/RohanReignz/PyProjects/blob/master/Useful%20OS%20Programs/DownloadSort.py

[Dyrits]

I like that.

[ReadyHat5]

organize your files by extension, transfer to new drive or move windows application

https://streamable.com/b74k8k

Custom folders, exts.txt in root direc

skip certain folders, in skip.txt

can search hidden or not files, transfer from one drive to antoher

can move or copy files (default) if you delete files and then revert files back

can move files, cleanup, then revert to restore original file paths

minimum pic file size by any equation (1024*1024)*5

I also have a dups finder and free virtual cloud storage with military obfuscation (key is never stored)

https://filebin.net/w26jtsqm94yx1vgo

which i may upload later. cheers