[SOLVED] How to Move File to Other Folder in Python. "No such file or directory" error

ericlindellnyc · 08-23-2022, 03:09 PM

Code:

for root, dirs, files in os.walk("/Volumes/TM3gbBu/miscx4now/fr6tb24jul22/miscxDox-ddupt-8gb/sort/BUs/doxx"):
    for name in files:
        fileSize = os.path.getsize(os.path.join(root,name))
        if True:
            filename = name
            counter += 1
            incrFN = str(counter) + '_' + filename
            shutil.move(os.path.join(root, incrFN), "/Volumes/TM3gbBu/dest0bytePy/incrFN")

Above (abbreviated excerpt) script had "print" statements for various variables -- all correct.
But I can't get the "shutil.move" right.
I've tried quotes, different ways of specifying path . .
All I wanna do is append an incrementing number to the beginning of the filename (which appears to be working), and then move it to a different folder. It says . .

Code:

No such file or directory

referring to a file that it already acknowledged exists.

What am I doing wrong? Thank you much in advance.

dugan · 08-23-2022, 04:12 PM

Here's an untested attempt to fix the more obvious problems I eyeballed:

Code:

for root, dirs, files in os.walk("/Volumes/TM3gbBu/miscx4now/fr6tb24jul22/miscxDox-ddupt-8gb/sort/BUs/doxx"):
    for name in files:
        filePath = os.path.join(root, name)
        if os.path.getsize(filePath) == 0:
            counter += 1
            incrFN = name + '_' + str(counter)
            shutil.move(filePath, "/Volumes/TM3gbBu/dest0bytePy/" + incrFN)

In the future, consider stepping through it with pdb.

ericlindellnyc · 08-23-2022, 05:22 PM

[QUOTE=dugan;6375699]Here's an untested attempt to fix the more obvious problems I eyeballed:

Code:

for root, dirs, files in os.walk("/Volumes/TM3gbBu/miscx4now/fr6tb24jul22/miscxDox-ddupt-8gb/sort/BUs/doxx"):
    for name in files:
        filePath = os.path.join(root, name)
        if os.path.getsize(filePath) == 0:
            counter += 1
            incrFN = name + '_' + str(counter)
            shutil.move(filePath, "/Volumes/TM3gbBu/dest0bytePy/" + incrFN)

This helped a lot.
Now, it seems the python loop is gagging on aliases (with broken links).
Can a test be applied to determine whether a file is an alias before python attempts to link to the target?
Then the file could be skipped in above loop.
Also, python is gagging on colornote backup files that look roughly like this . .
999999999999auto.dat.
I'm thinking it contains non-utf-8 characters.
Thank you again.

michaelk · 08-24-2022, 09:39 PM

Maybe

Code:

 filePath = os.path.join(root, name)
 if os.path.islink(filePath) == True:
    continue

ericlindellnyc · 09-26-2022, 12:03 PM

THIS WORKED !!

Code:

import os
import shutil
import pathlib
source1 = "/Volumes/TM3gbBu/doxx"
source2 = "/Volumes/crucialX8/fr800gb21inMac/fr6tb05jan22/
mainData-3copies/MainData4TM-ORIG"
dest1 = "/Volumes/TM3gbBu/destFylzMTsPy/"
dest2 = "/Volumes/crucialX8/destMTss0bytesPy-crux8/dest0byteFylzPy-crux8"
counter = 0
print(' ')
print('counter is ', counter)
for root, dirs, files in os.walk("."):
    print('btw4loops')
    for fileName in files:
        print('fileName is ', fileName)
        filePath = os.path.join(root, fileName)
        print('filePath is ', filePath)
        fileExt = pathlib.Path('fileName').suffix
        print('file extension is ', pathlib.Path('fileName').suffix)
        if fileExt != 'js' and os.path.isfile(filePath) and os.path.exists(filePath) and os.path.getsize(filePath) == 0:
            print('os.path.getsize(filePath) is ', os.path.getsize(filePath))
            counter += 1
            print('counter is ', counter)
            incrFN = "_" + str(counter) + "_" + fileName
            print('incrFN is ', incrFN)
            shutil.move(filePath, "/Volumes/crucialX8/destMTss0bytesPy-crux8/0bCrx/" + incrFN)