One of the arduous thing to do is “CLEANING HARD DRIVE” and since I’m lazy, if you don’t have time do so, I come up with the solution and well your are in the right place, you can use the following code to organize your files base on the suffixes so easily using python3.
###necessary Librarie to work with
import os
from pathlib import Path
#######Map file extension to our needs for sorting
subdirectories = {
"DOCS" : ['.pdf','.csv','.txt','.sql'],
"AUDIOS" : ['.m4a','.mp3'],
"VIDEOS" : ['.avi','.mp4','.mkv','.mov'],
"IMAGES" : ['.jpg','.png',',jpeg']
}
'''
return category base on file suffix
1. loop on the all items in the dictionary
2. when the suffix is found return category
'''
def pickDirectory(value):
for ctg, sfx in subdirectories.items():
for suffix in sfx:
if suffix == value:
return ctg
return 'MISC'
# print(pickDirectory('.pdf'))
'''
loop thru every items in the directory to get the file type for organizing
1. use OS library(scandir)
'''
def organizeDirectory():
path_dir = input('Please Enter The Desired Path: '). ### you may put your desire path for Orginizing
os.chdir(path_dir)
for item in os.scandir(): ### loop thru every items in the current working directory using the os library
if item.is_dir():
continue
filePath = Path(item) ### to get the path for every items use the pathlib library
fileType = filePath.suffix.lower() ### return the file extension
directory = pickDirectory(fileType)
directoryPath = Path(directory)
if directoryPath.is_dir() != True:
directoryPath.mkdir()
filePath.rename(directoryPath.joinpath(filePath))
if __name__ == "__main__":
organizeDirectory()