pyrohacker

[pyrohacker]

NANY 2010 Entry Information

Application Name	SubDiv
Version	1.2
Short Description	Organize your changing folders
Supported OSes	MS Windows (All)
Web Pages	- You're looking at one. - GitHub Repo
Download Link	See GitHub.
System Requirements	Windows A folder
Version History	1.2 - Updated format + 2 new features 1.0 - First working version
Author	pyrohacker

Description

SubDiv was built to organize folders that are constantly being filled with new content, such as a 'Downloads' folder. When you are continually throwing files from the Internet into a folder on your computer, that folder becomes very disorganized (at least for me). SubDiv will take those files and put them into folders based on the day they were created.

Features
Portable - Program is drive-independent and saves settings using .ini files, so it can be placed on any computer.
Currently sorts based on the day that a file was created.

Planned Features by Priority

• Multiple date formats - Semi-done! (currently supports two separators.)
• Multiple sorting methods - File extension, Alphabetical, & possible others
• Multiple work modes - Update or Constant Monitor
• Optional recursive sorting of subfolders - Done! (Thanks, doctorfrog!)
• Optional sorting of subfolders themselves
• Independent website
• Help file (only if it becomes complex enough)

Possible Features (not set in stone)

• Undo feature - Probable, but not a priority.
• Custom user sort fields - Not for a long time, but keep your hopes up!

Screenshots
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Usage

Installation
Place the .exe file into the folder you wish to have sorted.

Using the Application
Run the program! Current settings are:

• Recurse - take files from sub-folders and sort them as well.
• Cleanup - delete empty folders every time a files are sorted.

Uninstallation
Delete the .exe file and the .ini file. Please note, however, that there is no way to undo sorting at this time.

Known Issues
No issues that I'm aware of, other than incompleteness!

It's difficult to test a program that is based on taking a long time. Let me know if you run across any bugs.



Since I don't know how to manage files and folders in C++, this project has been made in AHK.
Any suggestions would be warmly welcomed!

[techidave]

Sounds like a useful app.  Any word on a release?

[supermamon]

Not meant to discourage but maybe you can get some inspiration from Belvedere
Maybe adding options to dynamically create folders based on date, or put up some pre-defined rules like, auto-sort by extension and create folders based on the extensions and/or type. Example predefined rules would be:
*.pdf --> Goes to PDF folder
*.xls; *.doc; *.ppt --> goes to MSOffice folder
*.jpg;*.gif;*.png --> goes to Images folder

...and yes, it's great that it will be a portable app.

[pyrohacker]

Phew!  I cut it a bit too close, but SubDiv has been released!  The current version is limited, but more development will follow!

All suggestions are welcome, but I probably won't be able to address most of them.

[mouser]

Seems to work as advertised 
Utimately would be nice to not have to copy the subdiv program into the folder you want to sort and have some more options, but it's off to a good start.

[wr975]

Not meant to discourage but maybe you can get some inspiration from Belvedere
Maybe adding options to dynamically create folders based on date, or put up some pre-defined rules like, auto-sort by extension and create folders based on the extensions and/or type. Example predefined rules would be:
*.pdf --> Goes to PDF folder
*.xls; *.doc; *.ppt --> goes to MSOffice folder
*.jpg;*.gif;*.png --> goes to Images folder

...and yes, it's great that it will be a portable app.

-supermamon (December 28, 2009, 08:06 PM)

You can also try this tool...

https://www.donation....msg159246#msg159246

Would be great if pyrohacker adds the same features in his tool. Especially the "keep .ini and .exe together" feature request was a great idea.

[doctorfrog]

I was pretty tickled with how this program ripped through my cloudy downloads folder, until I realized that the way it names folders results in an out-of-chronological-order mess...



It's still a nice idea for Chronic Downloader's Remorse.

Suggestions:

1. Please use a folder naming convention that 'naturally' sorts by date, ie. 2009-03-15
2. Include an 'undo' feature.
3. Include a feature that optionally recursively sorts subfolders. In other words, it reaches into every folder, digs out everything and dumps it into the root folder, deletes all empty folders, then re-sorts based on file date. Definitely will want to include an "Are you really, really, really sure?" confirmation dialog for this.

[pyrohacker]

Wow, these are some great suggestions and examples!  If they all come to pass, SubDiv will be more complex and useful than I originally had in mind ... I can't wait!

My Christmas Break is over, so development is going to have to slow down, but I don't intend to stop with version 1.0!  Just wondering, what are some opinions of the icon?  It was somewhat thrown together, so it's not the best I can do.

(The .ahk code is now hosted on a RedMine project, if anyone wants to take a look at it.)

[dilligaff]

out-of-chronological-order mess... Just Windows default behavior - does date sorting on a character-by-character basis,and the default North American convention of mm-dd-yy means that the year gets parsed last. Suppressed/implicit leading zeroes also cause some weird behavior in the sorts, in my experience,too.
see <http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6142_102-0.html?threadID=292241> for a discussion of this problem, and M$ other sorting inconsistencies at <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318872>. The photo cataloging software I currently use has the option to use the date embedded in the EXIF data,or add info to the ITPC metadata.

[doctorfrog]

M$

-dilligaff (January 06, 2010, 11:12 AM)

Using the format "2010_01_06" works fine for me. Actually, it's also the folder sorting technique my image organizing software employs.

The underscores seem to break up the name enough so that Windows sorts properly, and doesn't need any special date-smart x-ray vision. Those of us in the USA can deal with the communist-inspired y/m/d order. I submit it as the easiest way to go.

[Tuxman]

A new suggestion: Regex based sorting. If a file matches a certain expression, put it into $folder.

[Perry Mowbray]

SubDiv has just been written up on Elite Freeware:

http://elitefreeware...10-entry-subdiv.html

[pyrohacker]

Thanks for letting me know, Perry!  It's good to see NANY getting some publicity.

[mouser]

Mentioned here:
http://www.addictive...sed-on-date-created/

[pyrohacker]

SubDiv V1.2 has been unleashed!

New features include a true date format that will sort itself.  Sorry for not realizing that at first.  Also, the recursing idea has been implemented, as well as an unplanned feature: Cleanup.  When SubDiv detects an empty folder, it gets deleted.

Again, a lot of this is untested, so let me know as soon as any issues pop up.  I'm trying to find a good place to manage all of the feedback.  RedMine's nice, but I'd prefer if users didn't have to register.  Any suggestions?

[adi_barb]

Why is SubDiv famous?

SubDiv is famous because it is a simple tool that allows you to manage and organize folders content. 

[scasplte2]

First off, thank you so much for this nifty program. I was wondering is there anyway to change the date SubDiv looks at to create the folders?
Specifically, I am trying to organize a bunch of files and I wrote a program to go into each subdirectory and move certain filetypes to a specified folder. However, this action seems to rewrite the Date Created metadata leaving the original Date untouched and it is this date that I would like to sort by.

[pyrohacker]

I'm reviving this thread to ask for help. I have lost SubDiv, both source and executable. A user has expressed interest in finding it, and I'm hoping that someone still has some part of it.

My apologies for raising the dead. If anyone has the executable or source code for SubDiv — any version number — please either post it or send it to me (email visible on profile page).

[Shades]

The version I have  (executable only, version 1.0.48) is sent to the mail address I found on the web page your profile links to. The mail address is hidden on your profile.

A "strange" way of cloud back up 

[Andreasvb]

Hi, I got a slightly modded version of your code.

I used this before and thought I would sort my download-folder now, but it didn't work today (Windows 10).
Thought I would see if there was an update for it, and read that you lost it.

Also, I wanted only the year, so I put together a little bat script instead.

Used some bits from these 2 to get it working so it will not move any .bat:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/22222204 [Batch file to move file based on Month & Year on Date modified to folder with YYYY_MM]
http://stackoverflow.com/a/863627 [In a batch file, how do I delete all files NOT of a certain type]

Code: Visual Basic [Select]

1. @echo off
2. cls
3. choice /c yn /t 10 /d n /m "move all files divided by year?"
4. if errorlevel 2 goto stop
5. for %%f in ("%cd%\*") do if not %%~xf==.bat (
6.   for /f "tokens=1 delims=- " %%a in ("%%~tf") do (
7.     if not exist "%cd%\%%a" mkdir "%cd%\%%a"
8.     move "%%~f" "%cd%\%%a"
9.   )
10. )
11. cls
12. echo all done!
13. timeout 10
14. :stop
15. exit

Here's the code for your script (modded for YYYY-MM)

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. /*
2. SubDiv
3. created by pyrohacker on the D.C. Forum
4. as a NANY 2010 Entry.
5. */
6.  
7. #NoEnv
8. #SingleInstance Force
9. SendMode Input
10. SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
11. Menu, TRAY, Icon,,, 1
12.  
13. ; Set up GUIs and variables
14.  
15. Setup:
16.  
17. Gui, Destroy
18. Gui, 2:Destroy
19. Gui, 3:Destroy
20.  
21. Separator=%SeparatorSelection%
22. Cleanup=%CleanupSetAt%
23.  
24. FormatTime, CurrentYear,, yyyy
25. FormatTime, CurrentMonth,, MM
26. FormatTime, CurrentDay,, dd
27.  
28. ; Create the settings dialog
29. Gui, 3:Add, Text,, Creates folders: Year && Months`n:: Andreasvb 2012 mod ::
30. FormatTime, SmartDate,, yyyy - M - d
31. Gui, 3:Add, Text,, Please select a date separator:
32. Gui, 3:Add, Radio, Checked%UnderscoreOn% vSeparatorSelection, Underscore ( _ )
33. Gui, 3:Add, Radio, Checked%HyphenOn% y+0, Hyphen ( - )
34. Gui, 3:Add, Radio, y+15 Group Checked, Update Mode
35. Gui, 3:Add, Radio, y+0 Disabled, Monitor Mode
36. Gui, 3:Add, Checkbox, y+10 %Recursive% vRecurseSetAt, Recursive subfolders
37. Gui, 3:Add, Checkbox, y+5 %Cleanup% vCleanupSetAt, Delete empty folders
38. Gui, 3:Add, Button, y+20 x20 w70 gSendSettings, Apply
39. Gui, 3:Add, Button, x+15 w70 gActions, Cancel
40.  
41. Start:
42. Gui, 2:Destroy
43.  
44. ; Create the Main Actions Dialog
45. Gui, 2:Add, Button, vUpdate gSortNow h120 w120, Sort this folder now
46. Gui, 2:Add, Button, vSettings gShowSettings x+0 h120 w120, Change settings
47. Gui, 2:+ToolWindow
48. Gui, 2:Show, Center, SubDiv
49. Pause On
50.  
51. Actions:
52. Pause Off
53. Gui, 3:Hide
54. Gui, 2:Show, Center, SubDiv
55. Pause On
56.  
57. SortNow:
58. Pause Off
59. Loop %A_WorkingDir%\*, 0, %Recursive% ; Retrieve a list of files to be sorted
60.         NewFiles = %NewFiles%%A_LoopFileName%`n
61. UpdateFolders()
62. StringTrimRight, SortTime, %A_Now%, 6
63. if Separator = 1
64.         UnderscoreSort()
65. if Separator = 2
66.         HyphenSort()
67. if ErrorLevel = 0
68.         GoSub Problems
69. MsgBox Finished sorting %A_WorkingDir%!
70. GoSub EndProg
71.  
72. UpdateFolders()
73. {
74. global
75.  
76. If (Cleanup == 1) {
77.  
78. Loop, *, 2,
79. {
80.   Size = 0
81.   Loop, %A_LoopFileName%\*, 1, 1
82.   {
83.     Size += %A_LoopFileSize%
84. }
85. ;MsgBox Size of %A_LoopFileName% is %A_LoopFileSize% bytes.
86. If (Size < 1) {
87. FileRecycle, %A_LoopFileName%
88. }
89.  
90. }
91.  
92.  
93. }
94. Return
95. }
96.  
97. HyphenSort()
98. {
99. global
100. Loop PARSE, NewFiles, `n
101. {
102.         FileGetTime DateCreated, %A_LoopField%, C
103.         FormatTime, YearCreated, %DateCreated%, yyyy
104.         NowTime := SortTime
105.         EnvSub, NowTime, %DateCreated%, Days
106.         IfInString, A_LoopField, SubDiv
107.                 Continue
108.        
109.                 FormatTime, FolderName, %DateCreated%, yyyy
110.        
111.        
112.         FileCreateDir %FolderName%
113.         FileMove %A_LoopField%, %FolderName%
114.         EverRun=1
115. }
116. Return
117. }
118.  
119. UnderscoreSort()
120. {
121.         global
122.         Loop PARSE, NewFiles, `n
123.         {
124.                 FileGetTime DateCreated, %A_LoopField%, C
125.                 FormatTime, YearCreated, %DateCreated%, yyyy
126.                 NowTime := SortTime
127.                 EnvSub, NowTime, %DateCreated%, Days
128.                 IfInString, A_LoopField, SubDiv
129.                         Continue
130.                
131.                         FormatTime, FolderName, %DateCreated%, yyyy
132.                
133.                
134.                 FileCreateDir %FolderName%
135.                 FileMove %A_LoopField%, %FolderName%
136.                 EverRun=1
137.         }
138.         Return
139. }
140.  
141.  
142. ShowSettings:
143. Pause Off
144. Gui, 3:Show, Center, Settings Dialog:
145. Pause On
146.  
147. SendSettings:
148. Gui, 3:Submit
149.  
150. Separator=%SeparatorSelection%
151. Cleanup=%CleanupSetAt%
152.  
153.  
154. if (RecurseSetAt = 1) and (RecurseWarning = 0)
155. {
156.         MsgBox, 4, Caution:, You have instructed SubDiv to sort all files in this folder, including files inside subfolders.`nDoing this will destroy the folder structures in the sorted directory.  Are you sure?
157. RecurseWarning=1
158.         IfMsgBox No
159.                 GoSub ShowSettings
160. }
161.  
162.  
163. Recursive=%RecurseSetAt%
164.  
165. Gui, 3:Hide
166. Gosub Start
167.  
168. Problems:
169. MsgBox Unknown problems were encountered, but I can't say what...
170. ExitApp
171.  
172. 3GuiClose:
173. Gui, 3:Cancel
174. return
175. EndProg:
176. GuiClose:
177. 2GuiClose:
178. ExitApp

[mouser]

Thanks for sharing your mods!