Maid Sweeper

If you have a lot of files unorganized, and do not want to break up directories like code projects and applications, this tool maid is for you.

This is the Rust version of maid-sweeper, a tool service to classify files and directories.

If desired, the maid can practice Danshari given permission. For example, she can sell your unused iPad for money.

Like Toki, she has two modes:

tag: Label the files/directories automatically, based on their types and names.

• code projects and application directories are labeled, and their children are not scanned
  • if there is a DLL, you know what it is for, the maid also knows.
• others are labeled based on the extensions, or names if its name indicates that it is a special kind of file.

sweep: Carry out actions based on the labels.

Feature

• Uses Tokio for asynchronous processing. Toki, uohhhhh😭😭😭
• MongoDB for fast indexing if you want to
• Save time by not scanning every single file inside code and program directories and not checking the metadata
• Use yaml to configure the rules and tags
• Kyoufu!

Installation

1. Run cargo install maid-sweeprs.
2. Copy maidsweep.yaml to ~/.maidsweep.yaml. Or any place you like, in that case you need to specify the path with -c option.
   • Feel free to modify the rules
3. Install MongoDB and start the service (optional).

Usage

With MongoDB

1. Call maid tag -d --mongodb-host <MONGODB_URL> ~/Videos/Study, then you can find tagged entries in the database. Sweeping works on all directories tagged.
2. Call maid sweep -d --mongodb-host <MONGODB_URL> -x rm -rf {}, and the maid is going to remove all 'video' or 'game' tagged files and directories.
   • Any other commands is OK as well
   • {1}, {2}, {3} is the first, second and third tag, whereas {0} is all the tags, concatenated like #video#game#, like in TagLyst, for you to append the basename after.
     • Haven't implemented multiple tags, so {1} to go

Without MongoDB

Call maid sweep ~/Videos/Study -x mkdir -p Tagged/{1} "&&" mv {} {1}, which moves all tagged files and directories to Tagged directory, categorized. I didn't know that before, but things like && need to be escaped.

Ideas

• Multithreading
• Tags based on time
  • How does it affect other tags? If not why bother?
  • Maybe not tag, but just metadata
  • There will be IO cost
• Group similarly named files: 01.jpg, 02.jpg, etc.
• Understand human language so they can toss away garbage
• Optionally clean up the database after sweeping.