python-movefile-restart

A small library to move, delete, and rename files at Windows restart time.

Installation

pip install movefile-restart or pip3 install movefile-restart, depending on your configuration of Python and Pip.

Usage

To import, use import movefile_restart

From there, you have a couple functions at your disposal:

movefile_restart.DeleteFile(file_path, check_conflicts=True): Queues file_path for deletion.*

movefile_restart.MoveFile(from_path, to_path, check_conflicts=True) or movefile_restart.RenameFile(from_path, to_path): Moves the file from from_path to to_path.*

movefile_restart.GetFileOperations(): Get a list of tuples containing the source and destination of all file movings queued.

movefile_restart.PrintFileOperations(): Print a list of file operations that are scheduled to occur during reboot.

movefile_restart.RemoveFileOperation(file_op_index): Remove a file operation based on its index from movefile_restart.GetFileOperations().

movefile_restart.CheckPermissions(): Check for read/write permissions to the registry keys needed for this library.

*: For both of these functions, the check_conflicts parameter determines whether or not to perform checks when moving/deleting to make sure if it can be performed successfully in the case of a conflict. It only checks if there is initially a problem (the file being deleted doesn't exist, the source of the file being moved doesn't exist, or the destination file of a move already exists). Setting check_conflicts to False when calling these functions will skip all of these checks.

Current Limitations

• Due to using the Windows Registry for handling these kinds of operations, no other operating system is supported, nor is there planned support.
• Some cases can occur where a move/delete can fail. For example, queueing a deletion of file A then queueing a move from file A to file B isn't currently checked for, and will result in the move not occuring (as file A will be deleted before it can be moved).