How to move files 1 at a time to multiple folders in python-CodePudding

just want your insight on what I can do since I'm lost for 2 days now. What I'm trying to do is to move a file from 1 folder to 5 folders 1 at a time. here's what I got so far.

import os
import shutil

#path
source = 'C:/Users/folder/Downloads/Files/test'

destination = ['C:/Users/folder/Downloads/Files/test1',
    'C:/Users/folder/Downloads/Files/test2',
    'C:/Users/folder/Downloads/Files/test3',
    'C:/Users/folder/Downloads/Files/tes',
    'C:/Users/folder/Downloads/Files/test5']




def countItems():
    global totalfiles
    global copiedfiles
    totalfiles = 0
    copiedfiles = 1
    for item in os.listdir(source):
        totalfiles  = 1

#get total items
countItems()
#get Destination
while(totalfiles != 0):
    for dst in destination:
        for items in os.listdir(source):
            s = os.path.join(source, items)
            d = os.path.join(dst, items)
            if os.path.isfile(d):
                checker = 'Copy of'
                filename, filext = os.path.splitext(items)
                finalF = checker   filename   filext
                newd = os.path.join(dst, finalF)
                os.rename(s, newd)
                countItems()
            else:
                shutil.move(s, d)
                countItems()

I'm trying to distribute all of the files evenly throughout the 5 destination folder.

CodePudding user response：

You have a lot of extra nonsense in there to manipulate the file name, but nothing that rotates through the destinations. This does what you ask:

import os
import shutil

source = 'C:/Users/folder/Downloads/Files/test'

destination = [
    'C:/Users/folder/Downloads/Files/test1',
    'C:/Users/folder/Downloads/Files/test2',
    'C:/Users/folder/Downloads/Files/test3',
    'C:/Users/folder/Downloads/Files/tes',
    'C:/Users/folder/Downloads/Files/test5']

for item in os.listdir(source):
    dst = destination.pop(0)
    s = os.path.join(source, item)
    d = os.path.join(dst, 'Copy of ' item)
    os.rename(s, d)
    destination.append( dst )

CodePudding user response：

In order to copy all the items of a directory to another directory in one go, you can make use of 2 built-in methods:

Common code snippet to both methods: `(Replace 'USERNAME' with your username)`

source = r"C:/Users/USERNAME/OneDrive/Desktop/Dev/Rough/Source/"

destinations = [
    r"C:/Users/USERNAME/OneDrive/Desktop/Dev/Rough/Destination_1/",
    r"C:\Users\USERNAME\OneDrive\Desktop\Dev\Rough\CLI_Dev\Destination_2",
    r"C:/Users/USERNAME/OneDrive/Desktop/Dev/Projects/Destination_3/",
    r"C:/Users/USERNAME/OneDrive/Personal/Destination_4/",
    r"C:/Users/USERNAME/OneDrive/Backups/Destination_5/"
]

Method 1: distutils.dir_util.copy_tree()

import distutils.dir_util as du

for dest in destinations:
    if not os.path.exists(dest): os.mkdir(dest)         # Create dir if doesn't exist
    du.copy_tree(source, dest)                          # Copies all items to another dir

Method 2: shutil.copytree()

import shutil

for dest in destinations:
    shutil.copytree(source, dest, dirs_exist_ok = True) # Copies all items to another dir

dirs_exist_ok ensures no error is thrown in case dir already exists

Make use of these ways and you don't have to copy each item one by one to each dir

Common code snippet to both methods: (Replace 'USERNAME' with your username)

Method 1: distutils.dir_util.copy_tree()

Method 2: shutil.copytree()

Common code snippet to both methods: `(Replace 'USERNAME' with your username)`