I want to find files that includes some keyword and copy it to other folder.
So I need two features.
Find files by keyword and list it at "file" type value.
copy the file to different directory.
But Google drive supports same folder name so I don't know how to targeting folder by name. And I want copy the file only if there is not file has same name. Because I'll run this script every 5 minutes and if I don't set about that, there are many same name files to target directory.
How can I do this?
AFAIK, the only supported methods that you can use to get files in Class DriveApp are:
getFileById(id)
getFiles()
getFilesByName(name)
getFilesByType(mimeType)
Then, to make a copy to other folder, you can use the following methods that are given in Class File
makeCopy(destination)
makeCopy(name, destination)
Lastly, the suggested solutions given in this SO post might also help.
Related
For example, I'm going to upload a file scenery.jpg to /images/2020/03/18/ directory, if I upload to OneDrive, the upload url going to be like this:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/root:/images/2020/03/18/scenery.jpg
I don't have to know if the images folder, the 2020, 03 and 18 folder exists or not, OneDrive will auto create it recursively, acting like Object-based Storage.
But now, I'm going to upload it to GoogleDrive and GoogleDrive seems can't create folders recursively(as far as I know, see Create and populate folders), now I have 2 questions:
1、Is that I have to check if these folders exists one by one to make sure if I have to create these folders?
/images/
/images/2020/
/images/2020/03/
/images/2020/03/18/
2、If none of above folder exists, is that I have to create these four folders one by one(means request api four times)?
Anyone who did this before? I hope what I assume is wrong, because it's too complicated to do it in this way.
Unfortunately you are correct
Google handles file and folder hierarchy in a different way and indeed the only way create / list nested files and folders is to iterate recursively.
Also, if you want to know if a file / folder already exists with the method Files:get, you need to know the file / folder ID, rather than just the name. If you do not know the ID, than you need to list all files on your drive / (unless you specify a certain folder as the parent folder, e.g. '1234567' in parents with the query parameter q).
The same applies for creation. If you create a folder which you want to be a subfolder of a different parent folder - you also need to create the parent folder.
However, it is not as complicated as you may think.
Here is one of many available samples of how to list the contents of all subfolders and subfolders of subfolders dynamically - in your case you would just need to add the condition to create a certain folder if it is not contained in the list.
You would need to take some time to study the working principle of Drive API, however once you get an understanding it is not complicated.
How can I save two files with the same file name in the same folder without renaming anyone using php?
For instance: A user has an audio file name "first.mp3"; and another user uploads another file named: "first.mp3"; and I want to save these two files without renaming any so that when people are downloading the audio from the front end, the name does not change.
I can do this by concatenating a random number to differentiate the files but I want to beat this method of renaming.
Should I be saving each file inside a unique folder and save the file names to database? but this method will create too many folders which i don't think it is appropriate.
You cannot have two files with the same name in the same folder.
You would either have to add a random string to the end of each file like you suggest or save each user's files in a directory allocated to their account.
Regards,
Leslie
Saving multiple files with the same name within the same folder is just not possible.
I'd opt for a strategy that would involve saving the original filename somewhere (in a database, for example) along with the name/path of the actual file. When the User downloads the file (presumably through a web app of some sorts), you can set the name of the file via headers with your language of choice.
You could even rename the files to something completely random when they're uploaded so you can have them all in one folder - as long as you store the original filename somewhere, you can always set it before you serve it back to the end user.
Really, there is no way to move a file or folder using the DriveApp class?
From what I could gather on the docs and on the StackOverflow answered questions all proposed implementations seem to copy the file to another location and then delete the original file. That would result in at least two problems:
File/folder having a different folderId on the destination;
File/folder being duplicated and stored indefinitely on Google Vault by retention policy.
I must be doing something wrong. Why is there not a method to simply move the file/folder to another destination (as provided by the Drive Web UI)?
Thanks,
When it comes to moving files with DriveApp, you need to work from the Folder rather than the File.
Open the folder you want to move the file to and use the "addFile(file)" method to add the file to that folder, then open the folder you want to move the file from and use "removeFile(file)" to remove it.
This might seem a bit clunky but it's actually possible to have a file in more than one folder at a time on Drive. The folders are really just labels. When considering a file that is already in multiple folders, the meaning of "moving" it to a new folder is kind of ambiguous, it's really a matter of adding/removing it from folders.
Add:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/drive/folder#addfilechild
Remove:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/drive/folder#removeFile(File)
Stumbled across this post (two years & 6 months later) and just wanted to point out that its now possible to do this:
DriveApp.getFileById(myFileId).moveTo(DriveApp.getFolderById(myTargetFolderId));
In my script I have template docs in the main drive, but when the copy is created and populated with my excel data, I want it to be saved in a folder in drive. I have the script do that, but it has one copy of the file in the Main Google Drive, and the other in the folder I want it in. If I delete one of the copies, it deletes both.
Is there any way I can have it save automatically in the specified folder without also being in the main drive folder?
Folders in Google drive are not exactly like forders in a computer : having the file in your 'root' folder and in another folder doesn't mean there are 2 files, but rather 1 and only file with 2 labels... that's why you can't delete one without deleting the other !
The solution is simply to play with these labels in the script, here is how it works : (I commented each step to make it clear.)
function othertest(){
folder=DocsList.createFolder("MyFolder"); // or getFolderById or whatever other way to get your target folder
var file=DocsList.createFile('File2', 'Empty');// just an empty file for test but this would be your file copy that you want to "move"
file.addToFolder(folder);// put it in the folder
file.removeFromFolder(DocsList.getRootFolder());// and remove from the root
}
The other possible solution is to create the file directly in the target folder since the folder object supports the createFile method. (Not sure though that you can do it in your specific use case)
here is an example, you can see that the file is not in the root folder.
function createFileinFoldertest() {
var folder = DocsList.getFolder('test')
folder.createFile('Empty test fileName','nothing in there')
}
I am creating a Zip file from a folder (and subfolders). it works fine and creates a new .zip file also but I am having an issue while using glob.glob. It is reading all files from the desired folder (source folder) and writing to the new zip file but the problem is that it is, however, adding subdirectories, but not adding files form the subdirectories.
I am giving user an option to select the filename and path as well as filetype also (Zip or Tar). I don;t get any problem while creating .tar.gz file, but when use creates .zip file, this problem comes across.
Here is my code:
for name in (Source_Dir):
for name in glob.glob("/path/to/source/dir/*" ):
myZip.write(name, os.path.basename(name), zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
myZip.close()
Also, if I use code below:
for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(Source_Dir):
myZip.write(os.path.join(dirpath, filename) os.path.basename(filename))
myZip.close()
Now the 2nd code taks all files even if it inside the folder/ subfolders, creates a new .zip file and write to it without any directory strucure. It even does not take dir structure for main folder and simply write all files from main dir or subdir to that .zip file.
Can anyone please help me or suggest me. I would prefer glob.glob rather than the 2nd option to use.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Akash
Glob by design does not expand into subdirectories. It follows UNIX style path rules and expansions see the documentation for fnmatch for more information. If you want to get at the subdirectories you need to add it to the path. This example will get everything at one level down.
for name in (Source_Dir):
for name in glob.glob("/path/to/source/dir/*/*" ):
myZip.write(name, os.path.basename(name), zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
myZip.close()
Doug Hellman has an excellent discussion here. If you are not using the pattern features of glob (like *.txt for all text files or *[0-9].txt for all text files that have a number before the extension) then I think your os.walk solution is better