Feature Request to Delete Originals

[jshapp]

Could there be an option to delete the original file so that after running you are left with the new folder of "corrected files" and the old folder of "error files".

[TheLastGimbus]

Yes, I was recently thinking about that. Just a simple --move flag that will just replace .copy() with .move() 👌

[jshapp]

I'm just getting into coding and probably shouldn't be fiddling with projects, but it's fun because this is a tool I actually need right now.

I attempted to follow your instructions. I added an argument for --move and defined two additional move_to_target type functions that get triggered by elif conditions.

I was really excited to run/test what I wrote but I couldn't figure out how to run it 😅 . Since I'm running it as a pip install I guess it's running the last released version instead of mine. I don't know what I'm doing haha. I guess I'll wait for someone else to add this and review how they did it.

[TheLastGimbus]

Ohhh, really nice that my code is helping you learn!

You sholdn't need a new move_to function - just in copy_to, right above the shutil.copy, do the if check - try that out

To run your own version, just do:

cd projects/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper
python google_photos_takeout_helper/__main__.py

Simple as that

Then, if you want to check if it will fully work as pypi package:

python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
pip install google_photos_takeout_helper-VERSION-py3-none-any.whl

Btw: if anything - https://realpython.com/ tutorials are SO GREAT! I actually learned how to migrate this project to pypi from them: https://realpython.com/pypi-publish-python-package/ - maybe it's a little outdated, but it's pretty clear and self-contained

[Que20]

Hey, any news on this features ? 😇

[TheLastGimbus]

Hii! I am generally alive an remember about this, but I still did not have a moment of vein to implement those, sorry :confused: I can't say when I will have a moment, but maybe in a month or something?

[TheLastGimbus]

Hi there!

Another 1-year-old-issue

As of v3.0.0, moving files is a default :tada:, with a nice --copy flag. If you use --copy, all files will be copied instead of moved, and input folder will be untouched - useful for testing/running when not sure if will work - otherwise, all detected files (that is, only those from "year folders") will be moved to output folder :+1: