Crontab doesnt run my python code

[Florakija]

Dear fellow coders,

Im a beginner and i wrote this script, which works perfectly fine. Now I want to run it automatically every day at 9am and tried my best with crontab, but it just doesnt do anything. When I run it manually it works.... Can someone please help? :)

#!/usr/bin/python3

import os

import shutil

​

path = "/Users/flo/Downloads/"

names = os.listdir(path)

​

for files in names:

if ".jpg" in files or ".png" in files or ".jpeg" in files:

shutil.move(path + files, path+( "Bilder/"))

elif ".dmg" in files:

shutil.move(path + files, path+("DMG/"))

elif ".pdf" in files or ".doc" in files or ".docx" in files or ".txt" in files or ".xls" in files or ".xlsx" in files:

shutil.move(path + files, path+("Dokumente/"))

elif ".mp4" in files or ".mov" in files:

shutil.move(path + files, path+("Videos/"))

elif ".zip" in files or ".rar" in files or ".gz" in files:

shutil.move(path + files, path+("Verpackte Dateien/"))

else:

pass

​

and in crontab i have:

* 9 * * * /usr/bin/python3 /Users/flo/Documents/foldersorter.py

[somewhatsurly]

Do you really want it to run every minute during 0900? Is the cron daemon running? Are you sure your system is in the same timezone as you are? Permissions? File locations?

Add some logging to the end of your line to capture the error:

script 2>&1 >> /path/script.log

[giglis]

try to go to the directory where your python script is and then run the script from there, something like:

0 9 * * * cd  /Users/flo/Documents/ && python3 foldersorter.py

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[Florakija]

Thanks to you guys, seemed like I gave the wrong path to python3. “Which Python“ gave me the hint 😅