File Sorter

The purpose of this program is to automatically sort a given directory into user-assigned folders, by file extension.

Getting Started

These instructions should help you get a copy of this program up and running.

Prerequisites

These prerequisites only apply if you are not using the standalone application.

• Python 3.6+

• The external packages watchdog and toml, which can be installed via the following in the command prompt:

  pip install watchdog
  pip install toml
  

Using the program

Copy the files into a directory and run FileSorter.py or FileSorter.exe. If you did not copy the config file above, it will be automatically created and you will be prompted to input a directory to sort.

FileSorter.exe will automatically run as a background process. If you wish to run the python version in the background, change the extension of the python file to .pyw.

If you wish for any non-specified extensions to be sorted into a miscellaneous folder, change the config option misc_enabled to true.

Changing folders and extensions

The extensions and their corresponding folders to be sorted into can be changed inside the config.txt config file. To add a new folder to sort into, you just apply the following template inside config.txt:

[folders]
...
FolderName = [
	'extension',
	'...'
]

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for further details.