File Organizer

Overview

This Python script monitors a specified directory for file modifications and automatically organizes the files into different folders based on their file extensions.

Functionality

The script performs the following actions:

• Monitors a defined directory for file modifications.
• Automatically sorts files into specific folders based on their file extensions.
• Supported file categories include audio, images, video, packages, CSV, DMG, and documents.

Requirements

• Python 3.x
• External library: watchdog (to install: pip install watchdog)

Setup

1. Clone or download the script to your local machine.
2. Install the required dependencies (watchdog library) using pip.
3. Define the directories:
   • source_dir: The directory to be monitored for file changes.
   • destinations: Folders where files will be sorted based on their extensions.

Usage

1. Customize the source_dir and destinations to match your preferred directory paths and categories.
2. Run the script by executing python file_organizer.py in your terminal.
3. The script will continuously monitor the specified directory for file modifications.
4. When a file is modified, it will be automatically sorted into the appropriate category folder.

Customization

• Extend or modify the destinations dictionary to include additional file categories and their respective destination folders.
• Add or modify file extensions and their corresponding categories in the on_modified() method within the FileEventHandler class.

Notes

• The script handles common file types, but you can customize and expand it to include other file extensions and categories.
• Use this script responsibly and ensure it’s monitoring the correct directory to prevent accidental data loss.

Credits

This script utilizes the watchdog library for file system monitoring.

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Certainly! This Python script is designed to monitor a specified directory for file modifications and automatically organize these files into different folders based on their file extensions. Let's break down the script step by step:

Imported Libraries

• os, sys, time, logging, shutil: Python built-in modules for interacting with the operating system, handling file operations, managing time, logging events, and file/directory manipulation.
• watchdog: An external library used for monitoring file system events.

Initial Setup

• source_dir: Path of the directory to be monitored (in this case, "/Users/tanishjain/Downloads").
• destinations: Dictionary containing different categories as keys and their respective destination paths as values. Files will be sorted into these categories based on their file extensions.

Function create_directories()

This function checks if the destination directories exist and creates them if they don't.

Class FileEventHandler

This class inherits from FileSystemEventHandler provided by the watchdog library. It's used to handle file system events. The on_modified() method is overridden to sort and move files based on their extensions to the respective categories defined in the destinations dictionary.

Main Script

• Logging Configuration: Configures the logging settings to display time and messages.
• Parsing Command Line Arguments: Determines the directory to monitor. If no directory is provided via command line arguments, it defaults to the source directory.
• Initializing the Event Handler and Observer: Creates an instance of the FileEventHandler and Observer from the watchdog library. It attaches the event handler to the observer and specifies the source directory to monitor.

Observer Execution

• Observer Start: Initiates the monitoring process.
• While Loop: Keeps the main thread running while the observer is active.
• Handling Keyboard Interrupt (Ctrl+C): Gracefully stops the observer when the user terminates the script using Ctrl+C.

Observer Termination

• Observer Stop: Stops the observer.
• Observer Join: Ensures that the observer completes its tasks before the script terminates.

How the File Sorting Works

• The on_modified() method triggers each time a file in the monitored directory is modified.
• For each file in the directory, it extracts the file extension.
• It then checks the extension against predefined categories and moves the file to the appropriate destination folder if a match is found.

Conclusion

This script utilizes the watchdog library to monitor a directory for file modifications and automatically organizes these files into different folders based on their file extensions, providing an automated file organization system.