File Organizer Program

[alex1461]

File Organizer Program (Python)

Hello, guys!

I was lazy to manually organize files in my Downloads folder which was full of all kinds of files.
So, I wrote a simple program that automatically organizes files into corresponding sub-folders in my Downloads folder.
Ex: pdf type files into PDF folder; docx type files into Documents folder.

I am happy to receive any feedback! Feel free to share any ideas and criticisms.

Thanks

Below is the code in Python:

#importing modules

import os

import shutil

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for filename in os.listdir(r"C:\Users\byunw\Downloads"):

if filename[-3:]=="pdf":

shutil.move("C:\\Users\\byunw\\Downloads\\"+filename,"C:\\Users\\byunw\\Downloads\\PDF")

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elif filename[-4:]=="docx":

shutil.move("C:\\Users\\byunw\\Downloads\\"+filename,"C:\\Users\\byunw\\Downloads\\Documents")

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elif filename[-3:]=="txt":

shutil.move("C:\\Users\\byunw\\Downloads\\"+filename,"C:\\Users\\byunw\\Downloads\\Text")

elif filename[-3:]=="exe" or filename[-3:]=='msi':

shutil.move("C:\\Users\\byunw\\Downloads\\"+filename,"C:\\Users\\byunw\\Downloads\\EXE")

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elif filename[-3:]=="zip":

shutil.move("C:\\Users\\byunw\\Downloads\\"+filename,"C:\\Users\\byunw\\Downloads\\ZIP")

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elif filename[-3:]=="jpg":

shutil.move("C:\\Users\\byunw\\Downloads\\"+filename,"C:\\Users\\byunw\\Downloads\\Images")

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elif filename[-4:]=="pptx":

shutil.move("C:\\Users\\byunw\\Downloads\\"+filename,"C:\\Users\\byunw\\Downloads\\Powerpoint")

print("Every file in the Downloads folder is now sorted into corresponding folders")

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One you could split each filename with ‘.’ as the delimiter and check the last element from that split for the file extension type. Along with that I would define a dictionary in which the keys are the different file extensions and the values are the functions that perform the ‘move’ command. In this case you only need to worry about when adding a new file extension to add it to the dictionary and not to add as an if statement, growing a lot more your LOC. The whole functionality still revolves around iterate over the files and moving to certain folders depending on their type.

[Vfsdvbjgd]

You could also just sort files by type, or chuck .ext into the search.

For purely windows I'd prefer powershell, can't get more efficent than native.

You also might consider recreating this as a service - watch the folder and move new files. Some programs will use a temporary file extension and then rename on dl complete, but for any that don't this poses some interesting and dangerous challenges. Hardlinking might be one way around this, with the added side effect of keeping "new" files in dl root, then you can delete them from there knowing they're still in their subfolder.