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MLnoob
MLnoob

Reputation: 161

how to delete all files with a specific extension in google drive

I have about 200k files with .tif extension in my root folder of google drive that i need to delete.

The python code i wrote only transfers / deletes the few files that we can see at an instance (we need to scroll down in the drive and let them 'load' to see more of them)

I am willing to delete all other files as well if there is a shortcut to do so.

Cntl + A does not work either, it just selects a same few files that we can see in an instance.

import shutil
import os

source = '/content/gdrive/My Drive'
dest1 = '/content/gdrive/My Drive/toDelete'


files = os.listdir(source)

for f in files:
    if (f.endswith(".tif")):
        shutil.move(f, dest1)

dir_name = "/content/gdrive/My Drive"
test = os.listdir(dir_name)

for item in test:
    if item.endswith(".tif"):
        os.remove(os.path.join(dir_name, item))

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2672

Answers (2)

Linda Lawton - DaImTo
Linda Lawton - DaImTo

Reputation: 116869

First you need to search for all the files that contain in the name and are in your root directory once you have those you can start deleting them.

I recommend you test this without the delete first to make sure its listing the files your after I am not responsible for this deleting stuff :)

page_token = None

while True:
    response = drive_service.files().list(q="name contains '.tif' and 'root' in parents",
                                          spaces='drive',
                                          fields='nextPageToken, files(id, name)',
                                          pageToken=page_token).execute()
    for file in response.get('files', []):
        # Process change
        print 'Found file: %s (%s)' % (file.get('name'), file.get('id'))
        #drive_service.files().delete(fileId=file.get('id')).execute()
    page_token = response.get('nextPageToken', None)
    if page_token is None:
        break

Upvotes: 2

Kang Min Yoo
Kang Min Yoo

Reputation: 815

  1. Use glob.
  2. Use pathlib for path manipulation.
import pathlib
import shutil

source = pathlib.Path('/content/gdrive/My Drive')
dest1 = pathlib.Path('/content/gdrive/My Drive/toDelete')
dest1.mkdir(exist_ok=True)

for f in source.glob("*.tif"):
    shutil.move(f, dest1.joinpath(f.name))

Upvotes: 0

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