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.
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 terminal and it'll sort the CWD.
Setup for FileSort PWSH/Windows Function
Open Powershell, type the command notepad $PROFILE
Add a function to the profile:
function FileSort {
$cwd = Get-Location
python "Path/To/PyFile" $cwd # Change Path/To/PyFile with the location where the python file is saved.
}
After the setup, you can run the command "fileSort" in any folder, with which, it's going to sort all the files in the current folder.
Setup for FileSort bash/zsh Function
Open your zsh/bash config file
Add this code to the config:
function FileSort() {
python "Path/To/PyFile" . # Change Path/To/PyFile with the location where the python file is saved.
}
After the setup, you can run the command "fileSort" in any folder, with which, it's going to sort all the files in the current folder.
As the file was compiled into an executable which can be found in the Releases section, there are no requirements for it to be ran.
However, if you want to compile and run the program yourself, you would require:
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 -r requirements.txt
pip install tk customtkinter
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