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import os, shutil, hashlib
folderNames = []
startingDir = '.'
foldersRootDir = os.path.realpath(startingDir)
unsortedFilesDirName = 'Z-Unsorted'
unsortedFilesDir = os.path.join(foldersRootDir,unsortedFilesDirName)
#create the array of folder names
for file in os.listdir(startingDir):
if os.path.isdir(file):
folderNames.append(file)
# go through unsorted files. If file name contains folder name, move that file into the existing folder. Additionally works on files that have hyphens instead of spaces.
for folName in folderNames:
for file in os.listdir(unsortedFilesDir):
if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(unsortedFilesDir,file)):
if folName.lower() in file.lower() or folName.lower().replace(" ", "-") in file.lower():
oldLoc = os.path.join(unsortedFilesDir,file)
newLoc = os.path.join(foldersRootDir,folName,file)
if os.path.exists(newLoc):
oldChecksum = hashlib.md5(open(oldLoc, 'rb').read()).hexdigest()
newChecksum = hashlib.md5(open(newLoc, 'rb').read()).hexdigest()
if oldChecksum == newChecksum:
print(f"\u274c {file} {oldChecksum} and {newLoc} {newChecksum} are identical. Moving file to duplicates folder.")
duplicatesDir = os.path.join(foldersRootDir, "duplicates")
if not os.path.exists(duplicatesDir):
os.mkdir(duplicatesDir)
duplicateLoc = os.path.join(duplicatesDir, file)
shutil.move(oldLoc, duplicateLoc)
else:
print(f"\u26A0 {file} in both locations are different. Moving file with a modified name.")
fileHash = oldChecksum[-6:]
fileBase, fileExt = os.path.splitext(file)
newLocWithHash = os.path.join(foldersRootDir,folName,f"{fileBase}_{fileHash}{fileExt}")
if not os.path.exists(newLocWithHash):
print(f"\u2705 Moving {file} to {newLocWithHash}.")
shutil.move(oldLoc,newLocWithHash)
else:
print(f"\u274c {newLocWithHash} already exists. Not moving file.")
else:
print(f"\u2705 Moving {file} to {newLoc}.")
shutil.move(oldLoc,newLoc)
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Could probably do this without the folder names array, or store the file names and folder names in lists to speed up processing and only pull the list of files once.

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