mischief-managed

A simple script to tidy files lying outside of folders based on extension and date modified.

No deletions, simple moving of stray files into appropriate subfolders

WHY?

If you are like an average desktop/laptop user, you have lots of stray files in various locations in your system, especially in the downloads section.

To solve this, mischief-managed create a subfolder according to the type specified by the user. Current options are extension or date based. All files are then moved into appropriate subfolders.

Setup

To use, install by entering into command line -

pip install mischief-managed

View Pypi project on https://pypi.org/project/mischief-managed/

Usage

Simple usage -

mischief-managed

Just this command will manage the current working directory.

Complete options -

usage: mischief-managed [-h] [--path PATH] [--ext EXT] [--use-def] [--date] [-r RECENT]

Optional arguments:

-h, --help : show this help message and exit.

--path PATH : Directory to manage or target, instead of the current working directory.

--ext EXT : Flag if to tidy the files into the extension based folders.

--use-def : Flag to use general folder name like 'Images' for extensions - jpg,png etc. For custom general name for subfolders, see variables.py and change according to your need.

--date : Flag if to tidy the files into the date based folders

-r RECENT, --recent RECENT : Give the number of files to include in recently created files

Example usage

• To create extension based folders like jpg, exe etc

    mischief-managed --path=C:\Users\Downloads\
  

• To create extension based folders but with defined general names like Images for jpg, Applications for exe etc

    mischief-managed --path=C:\Users\Downloads\ --use-def
  

See variables.py for defined general names.

• To create folders based on the last modified date and also a separate folder for some number, say 10, of recent files.

  mischief-managed --path=C:\Users\Downloads\ --recent=10
  

Made by Help-a-Sloth org. Check us on GitHub.