Files Separator

Module with 2 classes: FilesSeparator and SortingVariables for separating files into folders.

Each folder will contain num files, starting from start_folder_num.

If number of files is not equally divisible by number of folders, last folder will contain fewer files than the others.

Folders names will be like folder-1, folder-2, etc. (see start_folder_name parameter to change it).

Other folders in work folder will be ignored.

Methods (of FilesSeparator):

• info(): Returns dictionary with info about FilesSeparator object.
• info_str(): String representation of FilesSeparator object.
• info_print(): Print info about FilesSeparator object.
• move(): Actual process: creates folders and moves files into them. Sorting files if it set to do so.

Parameters (of FilesSeparator):

• work_folder: path to work folder, if None - work folder will be current folder (where script is located).
• num: number of files to separate for each folder.
• start_folder_name: start name of folders names where files will be moved (e.g. if set to "folder-", first folder will be "folder-1" and so on).
• start_folder_num: number of starting folder (e.g. if set to 3, first folder will be "folder-3" and so on).
• sorting: if None - files will be not sorted and will be moved randomly. Sorting variables you can grab from SortingVariables class.
• reverse: if True - files will be sorted in reverse order (doesn't work if sorting is None).

Example:

from files_mover import FilesSeparator, SortingVariables

separator = FilesSeparator(
    work_folder="/home/user/temp_folder",
    num=50,
    start_folder_name="images--",
    start_folder_num=1,
    sorting=SortingVariables.NAME,
    reverse=True
)
separator.info_print()  # Print info about files and new folders:
# current directory: /home/user/temp_folder
# number of files: 179
# number of folders to create: 4
# start folder: images--1
# end folder: images--4

separator.move()  # Actual process