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M. Jimenez
M. Jimenez

Reputation: 11

I cannot move files from one folder to another with shutil.move after several attempts

There are many posts related with moving several files from one existing directory to another existing directory. Unfortunately, that has not worked for me yet, in Windows 8 and Python 2.7.

My best attempt seems to be with this code, because shutil.copy works fine, but with shutil.move I get

WindowsError: [Error 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

import shutil
import os

path = "G:\Tables\"
dest = "G:\Tables\Soil"

for file in os.listdir(path):
    fullpath = os.path.join(path, file)
    f = open( fullpath , 'r+')
    dataname = f.name
    print dataname

    shutil.move(fullpath, dest)

del file

I know that the problem is that I don't close the files, but I've already tried it, both with del file and close.file().

Another way I tried is as follows:

import shutil
from os.path import join

source = os.path.join("G:/", "Tables")
dest1 = os.path.join("G:/", "Tables", "Yield")
dest2 = os.path.join("G:/", "Tables", "Soil")

#alternatively
#source = r"G:/Tables/"
#dest1 = r"G:/Tables/Yield"
#dest2 = r"G:/Tables/Soil"

#or
#source = "G:\\Tables\\Millet"
#dest1 = "G:\\Tables\\Millet\\Yield"
#dest2 = "G:\\Tables\\Millet\\Soil"

files = os.listdir(source)

for f in files:
    if (f.endswith("harvest.out")):
        shutil.move(f, dest1)
    elif (f.endswith("sow.out")):
        shutil.move(f, dest2)

If I use os.path.join (either using "G:" or "G:/"), then I get

WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified:
'G:Tables\\Yield/*.*',

If I use forward slashes (source = r"G:/Tables/"), then I get

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Pepper_harvest.out'*,

I just need one way to move files from one folder to another, that's all...

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3703

Answers (2)

Cyphase
Cyphase

Reputation: 12002

This should work; let me know if it doesn't:

import os
import shutil

srcdir = r'G:\Tables\\'
destdir = r'G:\Tables\Soil'

for filename in os.listdir(path):
    filepath = os.path.join(path, filename)

    with open(filepath, 'r') as f:
        dataname = f.name

    print dataname

    shutil.move(fullpath, dest)

Upvotes: 0

Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 76184

shutil.move is probably looking in the current working directory for f, rather than the source directory. Try specifying the full path.

for f in files:
    if (f.endswith("harvest.out")):
        shutil.move(os.path.join(source, f), dest1)
    elif (f.endswith("sow.out")):
        shutil.move(os.path.join(source, f), dest2)

Upvotes: 1

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