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Smich
Smich

Reputation: 435

FileNotFound error when trying to move files with the Shutil Python module

I wrote the following code to recognize and organize gif and image files. cdir refers to the directory the program is supposed to organize. When it is executed, it should create folders 'Gifs' and 'Images' in the same directory.

import shutil, os

gifext = ['.gif', 'gifv']
picext = ['.png', '.jpg']

for file in files:
   if file.endswith(tuple(gifext)):
       if not os.path.exists(cdir+'\Gifs'):
           os.makedirs(cdir + '\Gifs')
       shutil.move(cdir + file, cdir + '\Gifs')

   elif file.endswith(tuple(picext)):
       if not os.path.exists(cdir+'\Images'):
           os.makedirs(cdir + '\Images')
       shutil.move(cdir + file, cdir + '\Images')

The directory contains the files: FIRST.gif, SECOND.gif and THIRD.jpg

But I get the following error:

  File "test.py", line 16
    shutil.move(cdir + file, cdir + '\Gifs')
  File "C:\Users\stavr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\shutil.py", line 552, in move
    copy_function(src, real_dst)
  File "C:\Users\stavr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\shutil.py", line 251, in copy2
    copyfile(src, dst, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks)
  File "C:\Users\stavr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\shutil.py", line 114, in copyfile
    with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\stavr\\Desktop\\testFIRST.gif'

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6797

Answers (3)

arbitrax
arbitrax

Reputation: 1

Following the error report there is a "\" missing in the path between your directory "test" und the file "FIRST.gif":

FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified: 'C:\\Users\\stavr\\Desktop\\testFIRST.gif'

You can resolve this by adding "\" when you put in the path like this:

Enter path to the directory: C:\Users\stavr\Desktop\test\

OR

replace:

shutil.move(cdir + file, cdir + '\Gifs')

by:

shutil.move(os.getcwd() + '/' + file, cdir + '\Gifs')

By the way: I think here's a "." missing before "gifv"

gifext = ['.gif', 'gifv']

Upvotes: 0

Håken Lid
Håken Lid

Reputation: 23064

Your file path is incorrect. There's a path separator missing.

shutil.move(os.path.join(cdir, file), os.path.join(cdir, 'Gifs'))

Upvotes: 1

ForceBru
ForceBru

Reputation: 44828

files contains only the names of the files in a directory. cdir doesn't have a backslash at the end, so, when you concatenate cdir with an element of files you get a potentially invalid path:

"C:\stuff\my\path" + "file_name.png"
# equals
"C:\stuff\my\pathfile_name.png"

The latter is obviously not what you wanted, so you should add that backslash to cdir somehow, maybe like this:

if not cdir.endswith("\\"):
    cdir += "\\"

Upvotes: 3

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