Automating the process of sorting files in my downloads folder by file type.

Eric Mahasi

Last update: Jan 7, 2023

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Overview

downloads-folder-automation

Automating the process of sorting files in a user's downloads folder on Windows by file type.

This script iterates through the files in the downloads folder and moves them to their respective sub-folders. If the sub-folder does not exist, it is created then the files moved into it.

Prerequisites

This script requires Python to be installed for it to run. To install Python, click here.

Usage

From a terminal, navigate into the project directory.

$ cd downloads-folder-automation

To run the script:

$ python downloads_folder_sorter.py

To have the script run automatically, configure it in Windows Task Scheduler according to this tutorial.

Contributing

Please read HOW_TO_CONTRIBUTE.md for details on submitting pull requests.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license - see the LICENCE.md for details.

Acknowledgement

I drew a lot of inspiration for this script from Nitish Sharma's medium article.

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Comments

Added config file and some refactoring
Resolves #2

Made a few changes here:

Created categories.json to separate out the sorting logic.

Abstracted sort_folder to take any folder and moved specification of downloads folder into a main() function. So now if you want to import sort_folder somewhere else you can use it to sort any folder you want.

Some minor style changes

Happy to adjust anything if you don't like the style changes.
opened by DaraDadachanji 1

Misc file types are not moved into 'Other' folder

Currently the script does not move uncategorized files into their appropriate folder. Attempting to do so in a simple else block in sort_folder leads to all files being placed into Other and an error: destination path already exists.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\ericm\PycharmProjects\downloads-folder-automation\downloads_folder_sorter.py", line 58, in <module>
    sort_folder(downloads_path)
  File "C:\Users\ericm\PycharmProjects\downloads-folder-automation\downloads_folder_sorter.py", line 52, in sort_folder
    move_file(file, destination)
  File "C:\Users\ericm\PycharmProjects\downloads-folder-automation\downloads_folder_sorter.py", line 34, in move_file
    shutil.move(file, destination)
  File "C:\Users\ericm\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\shutil.py", line 812, in move
    raise Error("Destination path '%s' already exists" % real_dst)
shutil.Error: Destination path '\Users\ericm\Downloads\Other\manjaro-gnome-21.1.3-210916-linux513.iso.torrent' already exists

bug

opened by eric-mahasi 0

Exception not handled if file already exists in the destination folder.

An exception is thrown if the destination folder contains a file with the same name as the one that is being moved.

C:\>python downloads_folder_sorter.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\downloads_folder_sorter.py", line 69, in <module>
    sort_folder()
  File "C:\downloads_folder_sorter.py", line 65, in sort_folder
    move_file(file, other_path)
  File "C:\downloads_folder_sorter.py", line 41, in move_file
    shutil.move(file, dest_path)
  File "C:\Python39\lib\shutil.py", line 812, in move
    raise Error("Destination path '%s' already exists" % real_dst)
shutil.Error: Destination path '\Users\USER_NAME\Downloads\Other\download.jfif' already exists

help wanted

opened by Moskoskos 0

Configure categories from a flat file

I think it would make sense to have a separate configuration file where you could keep the category details.

Separating the code from the configuration makes things easier to read, and allows people to more easily change how they want to sort things without accidentally breaking the code.

opened by DaraDadachanji 0