File Sorter

Trawls through a given directory tree and sorts things out, from something like this:

messyFolder
├ file1.png
├ folder1
| ├ file3.png
| └ innerfolder
|   └ file2.png
├ folder2
| ├ file5.png
| └ document.pdf
└ folder3
  ├ file6.png
  ├ file7.png
  └ folder4
    └ file4.png

Into something like this:

neatFolder
├ pictures
| ├ 2015
| | └ 01-January
| |   ├ 03
| |   | ├ file1.png
| |   | └ file2.png
| |   └ 25
| |     └ file3.png
| └ 2016
|   ├ 05-May
|   | └ 28
|   |   ├ file4.png
|   |   └ file5.png
|   └ 12-December
|     └ 25
|       ├ file6.png
|       └ file7.png
└ documents
  └ 2018
    └ 10-October
      └ 23
        └ document.pdf

It does this based on either the exif date taken tag or the created date metadata read from the files.

How Do?

just run python main.py and it'll ask where you want to move from and to.

• It uses a mapping defined in fileTypeMapping.json to work out what folders to put each file type into
  • eg. group .png, .jpg and .bmp files as images, group .mkv and .mp4 as movies, etc.)
  • modify fileTypeMapping.json to organise file types how you want
  • any file types not mapped will be treated as unknown
• Any files that encounter errors when moving will have the details logged to error.log

Requirements

• Python 3
• Pillow [Optional] (Python 3 fork of PIL, the Python Imaging Library.) If it's not present, exif data won't be used.