This might seem very useful for a lazy python programmer who keeps most of the files and folders at one location and sometimes at confused what all files are there and surely he is too lazy to do it manually. So below is a python program to organize or simplify everything in appropriate folder in the single go and remove empty directories.
So we have a directory path where lots of files of different types are present (like below) and our program we segregate each file type into their respective folders (like below).
Input folder structure
Desired Output
First create different folders based on types of files we are going to segregate into different folders:
DIRECTORIES = { "HTML": [".html5", ".html", ".htm", ".xhtml"], "IMAGES": [".jpeg", ".jpg", ".tiff", ".gif", ".bmp", ".png", ".bpg", "svg", ".heif", ".psd"], "VIDEOS": [".avi", ".flv", ".wmv", ".mov", ".mp4", ".webm", ".vob", ".mng", ".qt", ".mpg", ".mpeg", ".3gp"], "DOCUMENTS": [".oxps", ".epub", ".pages", ".docx", ".doc", ".fdf", ".ods", ".odt", ".pwi", ".xsn", ".xps", ".dotx", ".docm", ".dox", ".rvg", ".rtf", ".rtfd", ".wpd", ".xls", ".xlsx", ".ppt", "pptx"], "ARCHIVES": [".a", ".ar", ".cpio", ".iso", ".tar", ".gz", ".rz", ".7z", ".dmg", ".rar", ".xar", ".zip"], "AUDIO": [".aac", ".aa", ".aac", ".dvf", ".m4a", ".m4b", ".m4p", ".mp3", ".msv", "ogg", "oga", ".raw", ".vox", ".wav", ".wma"], "PLAINTEXT": [".txt", ".in", ".out"], "PDF": [".pdf"], "PYTHON": [".py"], "XML": [".xml"], "EXE": [".exe"], "SHELL": [".sh"] }
Secondly, create the map of file type into their respective folders:
FILE_FORMATS = {file_format: directory for directory, file_formats in DIRECTORIES.items() for file_format in file_formats} def organise_folder(): for entry in os.scandir(): if entry.is_dir(): continue file_path = Path(entry) file_format = file_path.suffix.lower() if file_format in FILE_FORMATS: directory_path = Path(FILE_FORMATS[file_format]) directory_path.mkdir(exist_ok=True) file_path.rename(directory_path.joinpath(file_path)) try: os.mkdir("OTHER-FILES") except: pass for dir in os.scandir(): try: if dir.is_dir(): os.rmdir(dir) else: os.rename(os.getcwd() + '/' + str(Path(dir)), os.getcwd() + '/OTHER-FILES/' + str(Path(dir))) except: pass
Final script:
That’s it, below is our final script to filter file types into their respective folders.
#Python Lazy Junk Files Organizer #Import important libraries import os from pathlib import Path # DIRECTORIES = { "HTML": [".html5", ".html", ".htm", ".xhtml"], "IMAGES": [".jpeg", ".jpg", ".tiff", ".gif", ".bmp", ".png", ".bpg", "svg", ".heif", ".psd"], "VIDEOS": [".avi", ".flv", ".wmv", ".mov", ".mp4", ".webm", ".vob", ".mng", ".qt", ".mpg", ".mpeg", ".3gp"], "DOCUMENTS": [".oxps", ".epub", ".pages", ".docx", ".doc", ".fdf", ".ods", ".odt", ".pwi", ".xsn", ".xps", ".dotx", ".docm", ".dox", ".rvg", ".rtf", ".rtfd", ".wpd", ".xls", ".xlsx", ".ppt", "pptx"], "ARCHIVES": [".a", ".ar", ".cpio", ".iso", ".tar", ".gz", ".rz", ".7z", ".dmg", ".rar", ".xar", ".zip"], "AUDIO": [".aac", ".aa", ".aac", ".dvf", ".m4a", ".m4b", ".m4p", ".mp3", ".msv", "ogg", "oga", ".raw", ".vox", ".wav", ".wma"], "PLAINTEXT": [".txt", ".in", ".out"], "PDF": [".pdf"], "PYTHON": [".py"], "XML": [".xml"], "EXE": [".exe"], "SHELL": [".sh"] } FILE_FORMATS = {file_format: directory for directory, file_formats in DIRECTORIES.items() for file_format in file_formats} def organise_folder(): for entry in os.scandir(): if entry.is_dir(): continue file_path = Path(entry) file_format = file_path.suffix.lower() if file_format in FILE_FORMATS: directory_path = Path(FILE_FORMATS[file_format]) directory_path.mkdir(exist_ok=True) file_path.rename(directory_path.joinpath(file_path)) try: os.mkdir("OTHER-FILES") except: pass for dir in os.scandir(): try: if dir.is_dir(): os.rmdir(dir) else: os.rename(os.getcwd() + '/' + str(Path(dir)), os.getcwd() + '/OTHER-FILES/' + str(Path(dir))) except: pass if __name__ == "__main__": organise_folder()
After running above script from a particular directory path, we’ll get output something like,