Python Script: File Sorter

[HemanthTenneti]

File Sorter

How It Works

• It works with the simple principle of organizing files in a given folder with it's filetypes.
• The fileExtensions.py consists a map with each file type to a certain folder name.
• The main program looks for all singular scattered files in a given desktop location, ignoring all folders.
• And it proceeds to create folders for each depending on the map of the file extensions.
• Assuming the program has permission to move items in the given location, it will proceed to move the files to their designated folder.

Command Line Functionality

• Added the functionality to call it through command-line
• You can call it either through:

  python "Path/To/PythonFile" "Path/To/Directory/To/Be/Sorted"
  eg. python "C:/Users/test/FileSorter/fileSort.py" "C:/Users/test/Downloads"

• Or alternatively, with a slight setup process, you can run "FileSort" in any powershell terminal and it'll sort the CWD.

Setup for FileSort PWSH Function

• 1. Open Powershell, type the command notepad $PROFILE
• 2. Add a function to the profile:

     function fileSort {
     $cwd = Get-Location
     python "Path/To/PyFile" $cwd # Change Path/To/PyFile with location where the python file is saved.
     }

• 3. After the setup, you can open powershell in any folder and run the command "FileSort" with which, it's going to sort all the files in the working directory

Requirements

• Python3: As this project was built entirely with Python, Python3 is required with the latest version being recommended.
• The libraries used which need to be installed are tkinter and customtkinter, as these were used to make the user interface for the program.
• You can install them by:

• pip install tk
  pip install customtkinter

[HemanthTenneti]

Please assign this issue to me, I want to add this script on here.

[bhargavnova]

Sure 🙌

[HemanthTenneti]

Thank you! I have also created a pull request for the same. Please review it.

[bhargavnova]

Hi @HemanthTenneti, Thank you for contributing! If you have any suggestions or ideas for future improvements, please feel free to share them!

I encourage you to continue exploring and contributing to any repo. Your skills and perspective are a valuable addition to programming community.

Once again, thank you for your time, effort, and enthusiasm. We look forward to more collaborations in the future!

Best regards, @bhargavnova

[bhargavnova]

If anyone wants to take up this issue, but with Linux support, feel free to comment here!

Thanks 🙌

[AvgBlank]

Hey! I would like to take this up, could you please assign this to me?

(edit: typo)