File Sorter

Getting more comfortable with Python, I decided to take upon a task that would take a lot of understanding of the language to execute it into existence. I chose a file sorter then as a way of streamlining the process of organizing my files easier on my desktop, I went further with it, designing a very minimal user interface that did the job.

How It Works

• It works with the simple principle of organizing files in a given folder with it's filetypes.
• The fileExtensions.py consists a map with each file type to a certain folder name.
• The main program looks for all singular scattered files in a given desktop location, ignoring all folders.
• And it proceeds to create folders for each depending on the map of the file extensions.
• Assuming the program has permission to move items in the given location, it will proceed to move the files to their designated folder.

Latest Add

• Added the functionality to call it through command-line
• You can call it either through:

python "Path/To/PythonFile" "Path/To/Directory/To/Be/Sorted"
eg. python "C:/Users/test/FileSorter/fileSort.py" "C:/Users/test/Downloads"

• Or alternatively, with a slight setup process, you can run "FileSort" in any terminal and it'll sort the CWD.

Setup for FileSort PWSH/Windows Function

• 1. Open Powershell, type the command notepad $PROFILE
• 2. Add a function to the profile:

function FileSort {
    $cwd = Get-Location
    python "Path/To/PyFile" $cwd # Change Path/To/PyFile with the location where the python file is saved.
}

• 3. After the setup, you can run the command "fileSort" in any folder, with which, it's going to sort all the files in the current folder.

Setup for FileSort bash/zsh Function

• 1. Open your zsh/bash config file
• 2. Add this code to the config:

function FileSort() {
    python "Path/To/PyFile" . # Change Path/To/PyFile with the location where the python file is saved.
}

• 3. After the setup, you can run the command "fileSort" in any folder, with which, it's going to sort all the files in the current folder.

Requirements

• As the file was compiled into an executable which can be found in the Releases section, there are no requirements for it to be ran.
• However, if you want to compile and run the program yourself, you would require:
• Python3: As this project was built entirely with Python, Python3 is required with the latest version being recommended.
• The libraries used which need to be installed are tkinter and customtkinter, as these were used to make the user interface for the program.
• You can install them by:

•  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

  or

• pip install tk customtkinter
  

Sorting Map:

• Images: .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .bmp, .ico, .svp, .webp, .tif, .tiff, .eps, .ai, .psd, .jfif
• Executable Files: .exe, .msi, .bat, .cmd, .ps1, .vbs
• Dynamic Link Library Files: .dll
• System Files: .sys
• Fonts: .ttf, .otf, .eot, .woff, .woff2
• Archives: .zip, .tar, .7z, .cab, .gz, .tar, .zipx
• Documents: .pdf, .doc, .txt, .rtf, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .csv, .pub
• Audio Files: .mp3, .wav, .ogg, .flac, .aac
• Video Files: .mp4, .avi, .wmv, .mov, .mpg, .mpeg, .webm
• Shortcut Files: .lnk
• Configuration Files: .ini, .cfg
• Log Files: .log
• Registry Entries: .reg
• Disk Images: .iso, .img
• Virtual Hard Disk Files: .vhd
• Data: .csv, .json, .xml
• Web Files: .html, .htm, .js, .php, .asp
• Scripts: .py, .bat, .ps1, .sh, .c, .cpp
• Database Files: .sql, .db, .mdb, .accdb
• Spreadsheets: .csv, .xml, .xlr
• Emails: .msg, .eml
• Contacts: .vcf
• Calendar: .ics
• Backup Files: .bak
• Temporary Files: .tmp
• Notebook Files: .ipynb
• Java Files: .java
• Java Class Files: .class

Future Enhancements

• Possible ideas for future improvements would be giving users the option to sort file types into their own folders with a setup process that would be done upon installation. Although, same effect can be achieved by editing the fileExtensions.py and configuring it to your own need and recompiling the program.
• Adding more file types.