arrangepy 1.1.1

Arrange your files in distinct folder

ArrangePy

Organizes files in folders and helps you to clean your PC

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What it does

Organizes the files based on their extensions in folders.

If you run the script in a directory containing hundreds of files of multiple filetypes, the script will arrange all of them in different directories based on the file type. For example, all PDFs are arranged in a directory for PDFs, all document based files (docx, doc, xlsx, pptx etc) are moved to the docs directory.

All these files are moved to a directory named CleanedPy in the directory on which the script was executed. So if you ran the script on your Downloads directory, a directory named CleanedPy will be created in Downloads.

You can specify which files to move to which directory using the config.ini file.

Features

Currently it has 2 modes

• Easy mode: Organzises files in the current directory
• Hard mode: Organizes files in the current directory and its subdirectories

How to use

• git clone https://github.com/prashantsengar/ArrangePy.git
• cd ArrangePy

Using the CLI (command-line interface)

usage: cli.py [-h] [-w | -s | -b] [-nw] [directory]

positional arguments:
  directory          The directory to arrange, default is current working
                     directory

optional arguments:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  -w, --weak         Weak arrange
  -s, --strong       Strong arrange
  -b, --web          Run web GUI
  -nw, --no-warning  Don't show any warnings when running strong arrange

Examples

• python cli.py (Arranges current directory, asks for type of arrange [WEAK/STRONG] )
• python cli.py -w (Weak arranges current directory)
• python cli.py -w PATH/TO/DIRECTORY (Weak arranges given directory)

Directly running the script

• python main.py

Running the Web GUI

• python -m webapp # for the web interface
  • requires to install Flask for web interface. use pip install flask for the first time

Editing the CONFIG file

Say the initial configuration is this:

[ext]
PDF=['pdf'],
Images=['png','jpeg','jpg','gif', 'tiff', 'psd', 'ico'],

This will move all PDF files to a directory named PDF and all images of mentioned extensions to a directory named Images.

To add a new file type

(say .eps) to the Images directory, add the new extension to the Images list. So it will change to:

[ext]
PDF=['pdf'],
Images=['png','jpeg','jpg','gif', 'tiff', 'psd', 'ico', 'eps'],

To add a new type of file (new directory)

Say you want to move all the video files along with PDFs and images. You can do that in this way:

[ext]
PDF=['pdf'],
Images=['png','jpeg','jpg','gif', 'tiff', 'psd', 'ico', 'eps'],
Videos=['mp4','mkv','avi','3gp'],

Now it will arrange all mp4, mkv, avi, 3gp files to the Videos directory.

Contributing

You can contribue to this project using multiple ways. Here are a few things that you can work on

• Improve this README to explain the idea better. GIFs can be added, for example.
• Adding extensions to the config.ini file will improve the experience for everyone.
• Improve the code, add new features or fix issues.

Please read the contribution guide

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