Automatic Windows File Manager

Simple windows file management program with logging and json configuration.

Automatic Windows File Manager is a lightweight background program that will handle day to day file transfers without the need for a monolith backup service or paid equivalent.

You should probably schedule it as a background service.

Features

It can do the following operations for your files, running automatically in the background if you set it as a background service.

Move files
Copy files
Delete files

You idenfity files by filtering on your own globpattern.

Configuration is done in a simple json file.

Events are logged so you can identify errors and stuff that happened.

Glob?

Glob is used to identify files, and is a simplification of regex. Here's an introduction guide: glob (programming)

Configuration

You configure the program within the config.json file that is in the root folder.

There are three types of operations you can apply on your files: Move, Copy and Delete.

Move

Move will remove files from the Source folder and put them in the Target folder.

Name	Type	Required	Description
Source	String	Yes	Directory path to move files from.
Target	String	Yes	Directory path to move files into.
GlobPattern	String	Yes	GlobPattern to identify files.
ReplaceTargetFileIfAlreadyExists	Bool	No	If files that already exists should be deleted (in order to update them) or not. Default value is false.
Operation	String	Yes	Must be "Move"

Copy

Copy will copy files from the Source folder and put the copy in the Target folder.

Name	Type	Required	Description
Source	String	Yes	Directory path to copy files from.
Target	String	Yes	Directory path to copy files into.
GlobPattern	String	Yes	GlobPattern to identify files.
ReplaceTargetFileIfAlreadyExists	Bool	No	If files that already exists should be deleted (in order to update them) or not. Default value is false.
Operation	String	Yes	Must be "Copy"

Delete

Delete will remove files from a folder.

Name	Type	Required	Description
Source	String	Yes	Directory path to delete files from.
GlobPattern	String	Yes	GlobPattern to identify files.
Operation	String	Yes	Must be "Delete"

Example:

The first operation will take all chrome downloaded files with the .mp4 extension and move (cut and paste) to a youtube folder on google drive.

The second operation will copy your text files from your documents folder to a backup documents folder on google drive.

The third operation will empty your Trash folder.

You can of course add more as you wish!

config.json

{
  "FileOperations": [
    {
      "Source": "E:\\Chrome Download",
      "Target": "E:\\Google Drive\\Youtube",
      "GlobPattern": "*.mp4",
      "ReplaceTargetFileIfAlreadyExists": false,
      "Operation": "Move"
    },
    {
      "Source": "E:\\Documents",
      "Target": "E:\\Google Drive\\Documents",
      "GlobPattern": "*.txt",
      "ReplaceTargetFileIfAlreadyExists": false,
      "Operation": "Copy"
    },
    {
      "Source": "E:\\Trash",
      "GlobPattern": "*",
      "Operation": "Delete"
    }
  ]
}

Logs

Logs will be created in the /logs folder with a timestamp and a description of what the program has done. Use this for searching for errors.

Todo

Test

License

The MIT License (MIT)

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