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Automate Your File Organization with One Command Every Day

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Automate Your File Organization with One Command Every Day

Your Downloads folder is overflowing. Your Desktop is a mess. Your backup drive has 47 copies of the same file. Let's fix this forever.

Install 

npm install -g file-batch-toolkit
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The Daily Cleanup Command 

file-batch-toolkit organize ~/Downloads/
file-batch-toolkit deduplicate ~/Documents/backups/ --auto-delete
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Set Up Automation

Windows Task Scheduler 

# Create a daily scheduled task
$action = New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute "file-batch-toolkit" -Argument "organize ~/Downloads/"
$trigger = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -Daily -At 8am
Register-ScheduledTask -TaskName "Daily Cleanup" -Action $action -Trigger $trigger
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Linux/Mac Cron 

# crontab -e
0 8 * * * file-batch-toolkit organize ~/Downloads/ && file-batch-toolkit deduplicate ~/Downloads/ --auto-delete
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Organize by Custom Rules 

# Organize with custom folder structure
file-batch-toolkit organize ./mess/ --rules images:Images,documents:PDFs,videos:Media
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Install 

npm install -g file-batch-toolkit
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