movefile-restart 0.4.0

A small library for Windows to queue files to be moved, deleted, or renamed on reboot.

python-movefile-restart

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

Installation

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

Usage

To import, use from movefile_restart import movefile_restart

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

movefile_restart.DeleteFile(file_path): Queues file_path for deletion.

movefile_restart.MoveFile(from_path, to_path) 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.

Current Limitations

• Files cannot currently be un-queued.
• Some weird cases such as: if you're moving a.txt to b.txt, you cannot queue a deletion for b.txt after your file move queue. You would have to restart the computer so b.txt exists before deleting it.
• Due to using the Windows Registry for handling these kinds of operations, no other operating system is supported, nor is there planned support.