pochetes / desktop-cleaner

Program that organizes files downloaded into the desktop that are automatically sent to their respectable locations based on personal file structure.

DeskCleaner

This project uses a program named Watchdog which looks for file system events and interacts with the OS file explorer events. Once an a file or folder is modified, the system logs it as an event and matches its extension (with pathlib) to its respectable folder location (i.e file.pdf --> pdf folder, etc). Folders that are repeats are then duplicated numerically (i.e file.png --> duplicate --> file1.png --> file2.png, etc).

Pathlib allows program compatibility across all operating systems.

Contains a separate batch file to run from CLI.

Shutil library allows movement of a file from one location to another.

Structure

DeskCleaner uses a dictionary of all of the different extensions available for files in the windows OS. It then searches for the matching extension in the modified file and then applies its value which is the rest of the location to the file folders. For example,

file.png --> loops through dictionary keys of file extensions --> if file>.png< == dict.key --> accesses the values --> ~/Desktop/path/to/your/made/files

My files were personally structured as:

C:\Users\User
--> Desktop --> Roberto --> media --> audio images video --> other --> compressed executables fonts internet --> programming --> c&c++ database html&css javascript python shell --> text --> microsoft --> excel powerpoint word other --> system pdf text

Sources

1. Resource that helped find all compatible file extensions https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001789.htm

2. Watchdog Documentation https://pythonhosted.org/watchdog/index.html

3. Pathlib Documentation https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html

4. Shutil Documentation https://docs.python.org/3/library/shutil.html