I am trying to sort out my Photos folder and I thought I do it with Python. What I want to do is go through my folder, check the extension of each photo (or video) and move it to a new location according to its creation date. I got the idea from a video in YouTube. I also used this Now the following code works perfectly for one folder at a time:
from stat import S_ISREG, ST_CTIME, ST_MODE
import os, sys, time, shutil
dir_path = "F:/Yannis/TestSortingFrom"
info_dict = {}
file_type_dict = {
'CR2' : 'CR2',
'CR3' : 'CR3',
'dng' : 'DNG',
'jpg' : 'JPG',
'jpeg' : 'JPG',
'JPG' : 'JPG',
'bmp' : 'IMAGES',
'png' : 'IMAGES',
'ico' : 'IMAGES',
'MP4' : 'Video',
'mp4' : 'Video',
'avi' : 'Video',
'mov' : 'Video',
}
destination_path = "F:/Yannis/SortingDestination/"
year_exists = False
month_exists = False
data = (os.path.join(dir_path, fn) for fn in os.listdir(dir_path))
data = ((os.stat(path), path) for path in data)
data = ((stat[ST_CTIME], path)
for stat, path in data if S_ISREG(stat[ST_MODE]))
for cdate, path in sorted(data):
info_dict.update({os.path.basename(path): time.ctime(cdate) })
for key, value in info_dict.items():
file_date = value.split()
file_extension = key.split(".")
for key2, value2 in file_type_dict.items():
if file_extension[1] == key2:
destination_folder = destination_path +value2
for folder_name in os.listdir(destination_folder):
if folder_name == file_date[4] :
destination_folder1 = destination_folder +'/' + folder_name
year_exists = True
for folder_month in os.listdir(destination_folder1):
if folder_month == file_date[1]:
destination_folder2 = destination_folder1 + '/' + folder_month
month_exists = True
FROM = dir_path + '/' + key
TO = destination_folder2 + '/' + key
shutil.move(FROM, TO)
if not year_exists:
os.mkdir(destination_path + value2 + '/' + file_date[4])
destination_folder1 = destination_path + '/' + value2 + '/' + file_date[4]
if not month_exists:
os.mkdir(destination_path + value2 + '/' + file_date[4] + '/' + file_date[1])
destination_folder2= destination_path + value2 + '/' + file_date[4] + '/' +
file_date[1]
FROM = dir_path + '/' + key
TO = destination_folder2 + '/' + key
shutil.move(FROM, TO)
destination_folder2 = destination_path + '/' + 'Uncategorized'
FROM = dir_path + '/' + key
TO = destination_folder2 + '/' + key
shutil.move(FROM, TO)
I tried the following to iterate over the folder tree but it returns a FileNotFound Error.
for dirname, dirnames, filenames in os.walk('F:/Yannis/TestSortingFrom'):
for subdirname in dirnames:
dirpath = os.path.join(dirname, subdirname)
I replaced dir_path in the previous code with dirpath
Do you have any ideas? Because I am at a loss. I could do it one file at a time but I thing it could be great to simply specify a folder and be done with it.
The error message is the following:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Yannis\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\shutil.py", line 566, in move os.rename(src, real_dst) FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified: 'F:/Yannis/TestSortingFrom\\Camera/IMG_20110305_143031.jpg' -> 'F:/Yannis/SortingDestination//Uncategorized/IMG_20110305_143031.jpg'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "G:/Python/PyCharmProjects/FileSorting/test.py", line 68, in <module> shutil.move(FROM, TO) File "C:\Users\Yannis\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\shutil.py", line 580, in move copy_function(src, real_dst) File "C:\Users\Yannis\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\shutil.py", line 266, in copy2 copyfile(src, dst, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks) File "C:\Users\Yannis\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\shutil.py", line 120, in copyfile with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'F:/Yannis/TestSortingFrom\\Camera/IMG_20110305_143031.jpg'
EDIT: Now the following code works (sort of). The weird thing is that if my origin_path has sub-directories then the program moves the files from the first sub-directory and leaves the others intact. If I run it a second time it moves the files from the second sub-directory and so on. Another strange behavior is that if different types of files (in my situation, .jpg, .JPG, .dng, .mp4) are in the same sub-directory, the program moves all the files except .mp4. If I run it a second time it moves the .mp4 too. The revised code is:
from pathlib import Path
import os, time, shutil
from stat import S_ISREG, ST_CTIME, ST_MODE
class fileToMove():
def __init__(self, name, folder, date):
self.name = name
self.folder = folder
self.date = date
info_list = []
info_dict = {}
file_type_dict = dict(CR2 = 'CR2', CR3 = 'CR3', dng = 'DNG', jpg = 'JPG', jpeg = 'JPG', JPG = 'JPG', bmp = 'IMAGES',
png = 'IMAGES', ico = 'IMAGES', mp4 = 'Video', MP4 = 'Video', avi = 'Video', mov = 'Video')
destination_path = Path("F:/Yannis/SortingDestination/")
origin_path = Path('F:/Yannis/TestSortingFrom/')
year_exists = False
month_exists = False
for dirname, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(origin_path):
for subdirname in dirnames:
dirpath = os.path.join(dirname, subdirname)
data = (os.path.join(dirpath, fn) for fn in os.listdir(dirpath))
data = ((os.stat(path), path) for path in data)
data = ((stat[ST_CTIME], path) for stat, path in data if S_ISREG(stat[ST_MODE]))
for cdate, path in sorted(data):
fl = fileToMove(os.path.basename(path), path, time.ctime(cdate))
info_list.append(fl)
for filez in info_list:
file_date = str(filez.date).split()
file_name = str(filez.name).split('.')
file_folder = str(filez.folder)
print(filez.date, filez.folder, filez.name, file_name)
for key, value in file_type_dict.items():
if key == file_name[1]:
destination_folder = destination_path / value
for folder_name in os.listdir(destination_folder):
if folder_name == file_date[4]:
destination_folder1 = destination_folder / folder_name
year_exists = True
for folder_month in os.listdir(destination_folder1):
if folder_month == file_date[1]:
month_exists = True
FROM = file_folder
TO = destination_folder1 / folder_month / filez.name
shutil.move(FROM, TO)
if not year_exists:
os.mkdir(destination_path / value / file_date[4])
if not month_exists:
os.mkdir(destination_path / value / file_date[4] / file_date[1])
destination_folder2 = destination_path / value / file_date[4] / file_date[1]
FROM = file_folder
TO = destination_folder2 / filez.name
shutil.move(FROM, TO)
from pathlib import Path
import os, time, shutil
from stat import S_ISREG, ST_CTIME, ST_MODE
class fileToMove():
def __init__(self, name, folder, date):
self.name = name
self.folder = folder
self.date = date
info_list = []
info_dict = {}
file_type_dict = dict(CR2 = 'CR2', CR3 = 'CR3', dng = 'DNG', jpg = 'JPG', jpeg = 'JPG', JPG = 'JPG', bmp = 'IMAGES',
png = 'IMAGES', ico = 'IMAGES', mp4 = 'Video', MP4 = 'Video', avi = 'Video', mov = 'Video')
destination_path = Path("F:/Yannis/SortingDestination/")
origin_path = Path('F:/Yannis/Photos/2019/9-2-2019/')
for dirname, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(origin_path):
for subdirname in dirnames:
dirpath = os.path.join(dirname, subdirname)
data = (os.path.join(dirpath, fn) for fn in os.listdir(dirpath))
data = ((os.stat(path), path) for path in data)
data = ((stat[ST_CTIME], path) for stat, path in data if S_ISREG(stat[ST_MODE]))
for cdate, path in sorted(data):
fl = fileToMove(os.path.basename(path), path, time.ctime(cdate))
info_list.append(fl)
print(fl.date)
for filez in info_list:
file_date = str(filez.date).split()
file_name = str(filez.name).split('.')
file_folder = str(filez.folder)
if file_name[1] not in file_type_dict:
destination_folder3 = destination_path / 'Uncategorized'
FROM = file_folder
TO = destination_folder3 / filez.name
shutil.move(FROM, TO)
else:
for key, value in file_type_dict.items():
if key == file_name[1]:
year_exists = False
month_exists = False
day_exists = False
destination_folder = destination_path / value
for folder_year in os.listdir(destination_folder):
if folder_year == file_date[4]:
destination_folder_year = destination_folder / folder_year
year_exists = True
for folder_month in os.listdir(destination_folder_year):
if folder_month == file_date[1]:
destination_folder_month = destination_folder_year / folder_month
month_exists = True
for folder_day in os.listdir(destination_folder_month):
if folder_day == file_date[2]:
day_exists = True
FROM = file_folder
TO = destination_folder_year / folder_month / folder_day / filez.name
shutil.move(FROM, TO)
if not year_exists:
os.mkdir(destination_path / value / file_date[4])
if not month_exists:
os.mkdir(destination_path / value / file_date[4] / file_date[1])
if not day_exists:
os.mkdir(destination_path / value / file_date[4] / file_date[1] / file_date[2])
destination_folder2 = destination_path / value / file_date[4] / file_date[1] /file_date[2]
FROM = file_folder
TO = destination_folder2 / filez.name
shutil.move(FROM, TO)