PickItUp

Super-simple way to categorize files in a messy directory. And it's only 4 KB!

PickItUp can categorize files by:

• File type(video,photo,archive etc.)
• Size of file
• Last modification date

How To Install

1. If pip is not installed sudo apt install pip3

• For Windows: Download get-pip.py and store it in the same directory as python is installed. Then run python get-pip.py

2. Install pickitup package with pip3 install pickitup
3. Open your folder in terminal and run pickitup (Don't run program in /home folder :) )

How It Works

1. Lists all files in directory (os.listdir)

files = os.listdir(os.curdir)
filelist = []
for f in files:
    filelist.append(f)

2. Takes user input for category type

print("PickItUp 1.0\nCommands:\n ext: Folder by extension\n date: Folder by modification date\n size: Folder by file size\n quit: Quit PickItUp")
action = input("> ")

• By file extension

for file in filelist:
    filename ,file_extension = os.path.splitext(file)
    for category in types:
        if file_extension in types[category]:
            dst_path = "./" + category + "/" + file
            src_path = "./" + file
            try:
                shutil.move(src_path, dst_path)
            except:
                pass

• By file size (<1MB for example)

for file in filelist:
    file_source = "./" + file
    file_size = os.stat(file_source)
    if file_size.st_size < 1000000:
        if os.path.exists("./Less Than 1 MB") == False:
            os.makedirs("./Less Than 1 MB")
        try:
            shutil.move(file_source, "./Less Than 1 MB/"+file)
        except:
            pass

• By modification date

for file in filelist:
    file_source = "./" + file
    file_mod_date = time.localtime(os.path.getmtime(file_source))
    folder_name = calendar.month_abbr[file_mod_date.tm_mon] + " " + str(file_mod_date.tm_year)
    folder_path = "./" + folder_name
    if os.path.exists(folder_path) == False:
        os.makedirs(folder_path)
    try:
        shutil.move(file_source, folder_path)
    except:
        pass

Special Thanks To

Dyne.org - file-extension-list